Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 45 · A Woodcutter in Karnata
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
अतः शान्ति प्रवक्ष्यामि पूर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥
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.
गायत्रीलक्षजाप्येन गोदानेन विशेषतः ॥
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…
रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥
All diseases come to an end. Do not doubt this. The sin of the past birth comes to an end, without doubt.