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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 41 · A Brahmin Lost to Wine and Gambling
मघा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
वार्पाकूपतडागेषु जीर्णोद्धारः प्रयत्नतः ॥माघकार्तिकवैशाखे श्रावणे च विशेषतः ॥ १३ ॥
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 unclear here: the first word may mean step-wells.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
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…
जपतो हवनं तद्वत्तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा॥
He should do homa (fire offering) in proportion to the japa (repeating a mantra). Likewise tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and…
दशवर्णाः प्रदातव्याः पूर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥
Dashavarna (a gift of ten colours) should be given, to cleanse the past sin. When this is done, fair one, every illness is destroyed.