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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 42
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers magha 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A potter in Ayodhya lay with the wife of a brahmin friend who had come to his house.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book links this to a home without a family line. The remedy has the potter give away all he owns, worship earthen lingas and plant a garden.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥अयोध्यायां विशालाक्षि कुलालो वसति प्रिये ॥मथुराग्राममध्ये वै स्वकर्मनिरतः सदा ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In Ayodhya, O large-eyed one, a potter lived, dear one. He lived in the middle of Mathura village. He was always busy with his own work.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पात्रं वै मृन्मयं देवि प्रकरोति तदा प्रिये ॥तस्य मित्रं समायातो ब्राह्मणो वेदपारगः ॥ २ ॥
He made clay pots, dear one. A friend of his came, a brahmin who knew the Veda fully.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्य स्त्री च महादुष्टा ब्राह्मणी व्यभिचारिणी ॥कुलालेनाभवत्प्रीतिर्मैथुनं प्रकरोति सा ॥ ३ ॥
The brahmin's wife was very wicked and unchaste. She fell in love with the potter and lay with him.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मण्यां गमनं नित्यं बहुवर्षं निरंतरम् ॥एवं बहुगते काले समर्तीते सुरेश्वरि ॥ ४ ॥
He went to the brahmin's wife daily, for many years without a break. Time passed in this way, O Goddess. (Our text is unclear here: the word for 'years' may be read slightly differently.)
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कुलालस्य ततो मृत्युर्वृद्धे जाते सुरेश्वरि ॥पश्चात्तस्य मृता पत्नी या पुरा व्यभिचारिणी ॥ ५ ॥
The potter died when he was old. Afterwards his wife died too, the one who had been unchaste before.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यमदूतैर्महाघोरैः कर्दमे नरके प्रिये ॥यमाज्ञया च निक्षिप्तो वर्षं लक्षत्रयं शुभे ॥ ६ ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death), Yama's terrible messengers threw him into the hell of mud. It was for three lakh years (a lakh is 100,000), O good one.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पतिव्रता समायाता लक्षत्रयगते सति ॥नरकाब्धेः समुद्धृत्य स्वपतिं च ततः प्रिये ॥ ७ ॥
When three lakh years had passed, his faithful wife came, dear one. She lifted her husband out of the ocean of hell,
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सत्यलोके समायाता स्वपत्या सह भामिनि ॥भुक्त्वा लक्षत्रयं देवि भोगांश्च विविधानपि ॥ ८ ॥
She came with her husband to Satyaloka (the world of truth), fair one. They enjoyed many kinds of pleasures there for three lakh years (a lakh is 100,000), O Goddess.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततः पुण्यक्षये जाते धवेन सह शोभने ॥मर्त्यलोके ततो जातो धनधान्ययुतस्तदा ॥ ९ ॥
Then, when merit ran out, lovely one, he was born in the mortal world with the husband. He was rich in wealth and grain.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्रकन्याविहीनश्च मृतवत्सत्वमाप्तवान् ॥ब्राह्मण्यां गमनादेवि बहुरोगश्च जायते ॥ १० ॥
Without sons or daughters, he became a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). From going to a brahmin's wife, O Goddess, many illnesses are born.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अथ शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु त्वं गिरिजे शुभे ॥सर्वस्वदानं कर्तव्यं रुद्रमन्त्रजपं तथा ॥ ११ ॥
Now I will tell the remedy. Listen, O Girija, good one. He should give away all that he owns, and do Rudra (a fierce form of Shiva) japa (repeating a mantra).
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूजा कार्या पार्थिवानां वाटिकारोपणं तथा ॥हरिवंशश्रुतिः कार्या भूमिदानं तथैव च ॥ १२ ॥
He should worship earthen lingas (Shiva's sacred stone emblems) and plant a garden. He should hear the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna) and give land.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षं जाप्यं तथा प्रिये ॥होमं च कारयेद्देवि तिलधान्यादितण्डुलैः ॥ १३ ॥
Dear one, he should do a hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra). It is of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words). O Goddess, he should also have homa (fire offering) done with sesame, grain, rice and the like.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कुण्डे कुर्याद्द्विजद्वारा चतुष्कोणे सुरेश्वरि ॥दशांशं हवनं देवि विधिवत्पापशुद्धये ॥ १४ ॥
He should have it done through brahmins, O Goddess, in a four-cornered fire pit. By the rule, the homa (fire offering) is a tenth part of the japa (repeating a mantra). It clears the sin.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशवर्णास्ततो दद्यात् स्वर्णनिष्कचतुष्टयम् ॥ब्राह्मणान्भोजयेत् शुद्धान् षष्टिं पायसलड्डुकैः ॥ १५ ॥
Then he should give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours). He should give four nishka (a unit of gold weight) of gold. He should feed sixty pure brahmins with payasa (sweet milk-rice) and laddus (sweet balls).
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
भूमिदानं ततः कुर्यात्तिलं दद्यात्प्रयत्नतः ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशो भवति नान्यथा ॥ १६ ॥
Then he should give land and carefully give sesame. When this is done, no doubt, a family line comes, not otherwise.
मघा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सर्वे रोगाः क्षयं यान्ति न च कन्यां प्रसूयते ॥काकवन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं मृतवत्सा च पुत्रिणी ॥ १७ ॥
All illnesses end, and she gives birth to no daughter. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) becomes the mother of a son.
Verse 42.3 says the brahmin friend's wife fell in love with the potter and lay with him. Verse 42.10 links going to a brahmin's wife to the troubles that follow.
Verse 42.11 says to give away all he owns and do Rudra japa. Verse 42.12 adds worship of earthen lingas, a garden, hearing the Harivamsha and a gift of land.