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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 45
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter covers purva phalguni 2nd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A woodcutter in Karnata spent money on cutting all kinds of wood.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book also tells of wrongs in his family life. Its remedy is a gift to a brahmin, Gayatri japa, a cow, a garden and a house.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥कर्णाटविषये देवि काष्ठकारोऽवसत्पुरा ॥छिनत्ति सर्वकाष्ठानि व्ययं कृत्वा दिने दिने ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Goddess, in the land of Karnata a wood-cutter lived long ago. Day after day he spent money and cut all kinds of wood.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एका वै गोत्रजा कन्या तस्यां च मैथुनं कृतम् ॥ततो बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युरभूत्पुरा ॥ २ ॥
He lay with a girl of his own family line. Then, after many days, he died.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पश्चात्तस्य मृता नारी कुलटा व्यभिचारिणी ॥यमदूतैर्महाघोरैर्निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥ ३ ॥
After him his wife died, a loose and unfaithful woman. Terrible messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into an ocean of hell.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
यमाज्ञया महादेवि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि नरके पच्यते च सः ॥ ४ ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death), O great Goddess, he suffered the pain of hell. He was cooked in hell for sixty thousand years.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
कुक्कुटत्वं ततो जातं चक्रवाकस्ततोऽभवत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो जातं देशे पूज्यतमे तथा ॥ ५ ॥
Then he was born a cock, and then a chakravaka bird. Then he became a man in a most honoured land.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
शूद्रसेवारतो नित्यं शूद्रस्नेहेन यन्त्रितः ॥पितुर्मातुर्भवेद्वैरं महिष्याः क्रयविक्रये ॥ ६ ॥
He is always keen to serve shudras (servant class) and is bound to them by fondness. Over the buying and selling of a buffalo, enmity arises with his father and mother.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि कृतं वृक्षस्य छेदनम् ॥तस्माद्रोगः समुत्पन्नः कटिशूलं निरन्तरम् ॥ ७ ॥
O Goddess, in the past birth he cut down a tree. So a disease came to him, a pain in the waist that never stops.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गोत्रकन्याभिगमनं यत्कृतं पूर्वजन्मनि ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि पुत्रस्य मरणं भवेत् ॥ ८ ॥
In the past birth he lay with a girl of his own family line. By that sin, O Goddess, his son dies.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गर्भस्रावी ततो भार्या काकवन्ध्यात्वमाप्नुयात् ॥बह्वचः कन्यास्ततो जाताः कष्टं प्राप्नोत्यहर्निशम् ९॥
His wife loses her unborn babies and becomes a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). Many daughters are born, and he suffers day and night.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
अतः शान्ति प्रवक्ष्यामि पूर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥ १० ॥
So I will tell the calming rite to cleanse the old sin. He should give one eighth of his house and wealth to a brahmin.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गायत्रीलक्षजाप्येन गोदानेन विशेषतः ॥वाटिकारोपणेनापि गृहदानेन वै शिवे ॥ ११ ॥
Let him do a hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Above all, let him give a cow. Let him also plant a garden and give a house, O Parvati.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापं क्षयं याति न संशयः ॥ १२ ॥
All diseases come to an end. Do not doubt this. The sin of the past birth comes to an end, without doubt.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
जायन्ते बहवः पुत्राः शूराः कीर्तिविवर्द्धनाः ॥कन्यका नैव जायन्ते काकवन्ध्या तु शाम्यति ॥ १३ ॥
Many sons are born, brave ones who spread his fame. No daughters are born, and the kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) is calmed.
Verse 45.8 says that in the past birth he lay with a girl of his own family line. The book links the later troubles of his home to that sin.
Verse 45.10 says to give one eighth of the house and wealth to a brahmin. Verse 45.11 adds a hundred thousand Gayatri japa, a cow, a garden and a house.