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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 43
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter covers magha 4th pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A merchant in Kanchi did not honour the gods or his ancestors.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He did not do the rite his parents were owed. The remedy is a yearly bath at Prayaga in Magha, japa and a gift of land.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥काञ्चीपुर्यां महादेवि वैश्य एकोऽवसत्पुरा ॥मेदसिन्द इति ख्यातस्तस्य स्त्री पालिका शुभा ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O great Goddess, long ago a merchant lived in the city of Kanchi. He was called Medasinda. His wife was Palika, a good woman.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
अश्वादिविक्रयं देवि च्छागपक्ष्यादिकं तथा ॥प्रत्यहं क्रियते देवि बहुद्रव्यस्य संचयम् ॥ २ ॥
O Goddess, he sold horses and the like, and also goats, birds and the like. Every day he piled up much wealth.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
न देवान् मन्यते देवि पितॄन्नैव च मन्यते ॥बहुष्वहस्सु गच्छत्सु प्रमृतौ पितरौ ततः ॥ ३ ॥
He did not honour the gods. He did not honour his ancestors. As many days passed, his father and mother died.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
स तयोर्नाकरोच्छ्राद्धं यत्कर्तव्यं सुतैः प्रिये ॥ततो बहुदिने याते वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥ ४ ॥
He did not do for them the shraddha (rite for the dead ancestors) that sons must do, dear one. Then, as many days passed, he grew old, O lovely one.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मरणं तस्य वै जातं वैश्यस्य कृपणस्य च ॥यमाज्ञया तु दूतेन कुम्भीपाके सुदारुणे ॥ ५ ॥
That stingy merchant died. By the order of Yama (the god of death), a messenger threw him into the terrible Kumbhipaka hell.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
निक्षिप्तं शृंखलैर्बध्वा युगपञ्चदशं समाः ॥भुक्त्वा नरकजं दुःखं महाक्रिमिसमाकुलम् ॥ ६ ॥
He was bound in chains and thrown in for fifteen yugas (ages) of years. He suffered the pain of hell, full of huge worms.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि महिषत्वं ततोऽलभत् ॥पुनर्वै व्याघ्रयोनिश्च मूषयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ७ ॥
O Goddess, coming out of hell he became a buffalo. Then he was born again as a tiger, and then as a rat.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
काकयोनिं ततो भुक्त्वा गजयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥शुभे देशे विशालाक्षि धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥ ८ ॥
After living as a crow, he became an elephant. Then, O wide-eyed one, he was born in a good land, rich in money and grain.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
व्याधिग्रस्तोऽभवद्देवि पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥काकवन्ध्या भवेन्नारी मृतवत्सा ह्यपुत्रिणी ॥ ९ ॥
O Goddess, he fell ill and had no sons or daughters. His wife became a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). She was a mritavatsa (one whose children die young) and had no son.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापं यतः शान्तिमवाप्नुयात् ॥तत्सर्वं शृणु मे देवि विस्तरेण समन्वितम् ॥ १० ॥
Hear from me in full, O Goddess, how the sin of the past birth is calmed.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
प्रयागे नियतः स्नायी प्रतिमाघं भवेद्यदा ॥गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां दशायुतजपं तथा ॥ ११ ॥
Every year in the month of Magha, the person bathes at Prayaga with discipline. He does japa (repeating a mantra) a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) times. He uses the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the Jatavedas (a name of the fire god) mantra.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
भूमिदानं च वै कृत्वा ततः पुत्रः प्रजायते ॥वन्ध्यात्वं शमनं याति काकवन्ध्यात्वमप्यथ ॥ १२ ॥
He also gives land. Then a son is born. The state of being vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) goes away. The state of kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) goes away too.
मघा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥सर्वे रोगाः क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १३ ॥
The mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a good son who lives long. All diseases come to an end. Do not doubt this.
Verse 43.3 says the merchant did not honour the gods or his ancestors. Verse 43.4 says he did not do the shraddha that sons must do.
Verse 43.11 says to bathe at Prayaga every year in Magha with discipline and do a hundred thousand japa. Verse 43.12 adds a gift of land.