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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 41 · A Brahmin Lost to Wine and Gambling
मघा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
मानुषैर्भुज्यते सर्वे मृत्युलोके सुरेश्वरि ॥अस्य शान्ति प्रवक्ष्यामि यथार्थं शृणु भामिनि ॥११॥
All of it is lived through by humans in the mortal world, O Goddess. I will tell the remedy for this. Listen as it truly is, lovely one.
Classical view, not medical advice.
गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥ १२ ॥
He should give an eighth part of the wealth of the house to a brahmin.
वार्पाकूपतडागेषु जीर्णोद्धारः प्रयत्नतः ॥
He should carefully repair old step-wells, wells and ponds. He should do it in Magha, Kartik and Vaishakha, and especially in Shravana. (Our text is…
प्रत्यब्दं भोजयेद्विप्रान् श्रोत्रियान्वेदपारगान् ॥
Every year he should feed brahmins who know the Vedas and are learned. He should do two lakh (a lakh is 100,000) japa (repeating a mantra). He uses…