Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 40 · A Trader Who Used a Friend's Wealth
मघा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मित्रद्रव्यं स्वयं दत्तं भुक्तं तेन ततः प्रिये ॥पुत्रोत्पत्तिः प्रथमतस्तस्य वै मरणं भवेत् ॥ १२ ॥
He himself used up his friend's wealth, the gift he had given. So, dear one, a son is born first, and that son dies.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पुनः पुत्रो न जायेत काकवन्ध्या ततः प्रिया ॥
After that no son is born. His dear wife becomes a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). Many kinds of disease of phlegm, wind and the like…
वृद्धत्वं च तथा तस्य जायते नात्र संशयः ॥
Old age too comes to him, no doubt. To calm that sin, fair-faced one, hear the merit-work.
षडंशं च ततो दानं ब्राह्मणाय वरानने ॥
Then, fair-faced one, he should give a sixth part to a brahmin. He should carefully do one lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra). It is of the…