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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 44
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers purva phalguni 1st pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A warrior in Saurashtra kept oxen for trade, and two of them fell into a well.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He never made atonement for it. The remedy is a gift of a sixth share and five lakh Gayatri japa.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥सौराष्ट्रविषये देवि शोभनं नाम वै पुरम् ॥तत्र क्षत्री वसत्येको धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Goddess, in the land of Saurashtra there is a town called Shobhana. A kshatriya (warrior class) lived there, rich in money and grain.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मोहनेति च विख्यातस्तस्य पत्नी सती शुभा ॥वैश्यवृत्तिरतो नित्यं व्यापारं कुरुते सदा ॥ २ ॥
He was called Mohana. His wife was good and fair. He always did a merchant's work and traded all the time.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
व्यापारार्थं ततो देवि वृषभा बहु पालिताः ॥द्वौ वृषौ योजितौ देवि कूपे वै पतितौ प्रिये ॥ ३ ॥
For trade, O Goddess, he kept many oxen. Two oxen were yoked, dear one, and fell into a well.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मृतौ तौ रात्रिकालेऽपि जगाम स तदा न च ॥पापं च स न जानाति गर्वद्वारा वरानने ॥ ४ ॥
They died in the night, and he did not even go there. In his pride he did not know it was a sin, O lovely one.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
यत्किंचित्क्रियते कर्म शुभं तु कलुषं बहु ॥गुणाः स्वल्पा बह्वगुणा मोहनं नाम क्षत्रिणः ॥ ५ ॥
Whatever deeds he did, the good was little and the stain was great. His good qualities were few and his faults many, this kshatriya (warrior class) Mohana.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो बहुगते काले मरणं तस्य चाभवत् ॥पश्चान्मृता तस्य पत्नी महालुब्धा वरानने ॥ ६ ॥
After many days he died. His wife, very greedy, died after him, O lovely one.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
निक्षिप्तो नरके घोरे यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ७ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a terrible hell by Yama's order. He suffered the pain of hell for sixty thousand years.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनः सरटयोनिश्च वृषयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो देवि मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥ ८ ॥
Then he was born as a lizard, and then as an ox. Then, O Goddess, he became a man in the middle country.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वृषयोश्च पुरा मृत्युर्न कृतं पापमोचनम् ॥तस्माद्व्याधिः समुत्पन्नः पूर्वकर्मप्रयत्नतः ॥ ९ ॥
The two oxen died before. No atonement was made for that sin. So disease came to him from his past deed.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मुखरा याभवत्पत्नी पुरा च प्रबला प्रिये ॥पुनर्विवाहिता देवि तद्रूपा मुखरा तथा ॥ १० ॥
His wife was loud and strong before, dear one. O Goddess, she is married to him again. She has the same nature and is just as loud.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तत्पापशमनार्थाय षडंशं दानमाचरेत् ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण पञ्चलक्षजपं यदा ॥ ११ ॥
To calm that sin, he should give away a sixth share as a gift. He should do japa (repeating a mantra) five lakh (100,000 each) times. He uses the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words).
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततः पापं क्षयं याति शीघ्रं पुत्रो भवेत् प्रिये ॥अपुत्रा मृतवत्सा च काकवन्ध्या च या शिवे ॥ १२ ॥
Then the sin goes away quickly and a son is born, dear one. Take a woman with no son. Or take a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). Or take a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child), O Parvati.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुत्रिण्यश्चैव ताः सर्वा नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥रोगाः सर्वे विनश्यन्ति शीघ्रमेव न संशयः ॥ १३ ॥
All of them become mothers of sons. Do not doubt this. All diseases die away very soon, without doubt.
Verse 44.3 says two of his oxen fell into a well. Verse 44.4 says that in his pride he did not know it was a sin.
Verse 44.11 says to give away a sixth share as a gift and do five lakh japa of the Gayatri root mantra. Verse 44.12 says the sin then goes away quickly.