Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापं यतः शान्तिमवाप्नुयात् ॥
Hear from me in full, O Goddess, how the sin of the past birth is calmed.
प्रयागे नियतः स्नायी प्रतिमाघं भवेद्यदा ॥
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…
मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥
The mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a good son who lives long. All diseases come to an end. Do not doubt this.