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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 38 · A Garland Maker and Unreturned Gold
आश्लेषा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
स्वकर्मनिरतो नित्यं द्विजसेवासु तत्परः ॥तस्य पत्नी विशालाक्षि नाम्ना चन्द्रावती शुभा ॥२॥
He was always busy with his own work and keen to serve brahmins. His wife, O large-eyed one, was named Chandravati, a good woman.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गुरुदास इति ख्यातो वैश्यवर्णेषु पूजितः ॥
There was a man known as Gurudasa, honoured among the vaishyas (trader class). Then he gave gold to the garland maker, his dear friend.
लक्षत्रयं स्थितं स्वर्णं तस्य वैश्यपतेः प्रिये ॥
That vaishya chief's gold came to three lakh (a lakh is 100,000), dear one. The garland maker then put all of it in the ground.
स्वयं गतः स वैश्येन सार्धं वेण्यां तदा प्रिये ॥
Then, dear one, he himself went with the vaishya to Veni, where the rivers meet. There the two bathed by the rule in the month of Magha, as a fixed…