Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
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.
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…
भूमिदानं च वै कृत्वा ततः पुत्रः प्रजायते ॥
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…