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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 43 · A Merchant Who Skipped the Ancestors' Rite
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.
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…