Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 37 · Ashlesha 2nd Pada
आश्लेषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
कृतं दानं पुरा देवि सर्वपर्वणि चाञ्जसा ॥तेन पुण्येन भो देवि धनधान्यगजादिकम् ॥ ९ ॥
In the past he gave gifts readily at every festival. By that merit, O Goddess, he has wealth, grain, elephants and the like.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गोसंग्रहः कृतः पूर्वं मृतो तृणकणं विना ॥
He had gathered cows, and they died without even a blade of grass. By that sin, O Goddess, a great illness is born.
तस्य शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु देवि सुशोभने ॥
I will tell the remedy for it. Listen, lovely Goddess. He should give a tenth part to a brahmin, O dear one of the gods.
गायत्रीलक्षजाप्येन जपं कुर्यात्प्रसन्नधीः ॥
With a calm mind he should do a hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra). It is of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Then, O Goddess, a tenth…