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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 46
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers purva phalguni 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A clerk named Tikarama, a follower of Vishnu, took away all the wealth of his goldsmith friend.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book links this and other wrongs to a line that does not go on. The remedy is Gayatri japa, a fire offering and a feast for brahmins.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥सिंहले वै महाद्वीपे तत्र सिंहापुरं शिवे ॥कायस्थो वैष्णवोऽप्येकष्टीकारामेति नामतः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Parvati, in the great island of Sinhala there is a city, Sinhapura. A kayastha (clerk caste) lived there, a follower of Vishnu, named Tikarama.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्य भार्या विशालाक्षि सूर्यानाम्नी शुभा सती ॥आतिथ्यकरणे शक्ता देवतात्यन्तपूजिका ॥ २ ॥
O wide-eyed one, his wife was Surya, good and faithful. She was able to host guests and was very devoted to the gods.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कार्तिके माघवैशाखे दीपदानं करोति सा ॥कदाचिद्दैवयोगेन तीर्थयात्रार्थमागता ॥ ३ ॥
She made lamp offerings in the months of Kartik, Magha and Vaishakha. Once, by chance, she came there on a pilgrimage.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
स्वर्णकारो महादेवि बहुस्वर्णेन संयुतः ॥आगतः सिंहनगरे तत्र वासमकारयत् ॥ ४ ॥
O great Goddess, a goldsmith with much gold came to the city of Sinhapura and made his home there.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
प्रीतिः परस्परं चैव कायस्थस्वर्णकारयोः ॥स्वर्णकारस्य कन्यैका सुन्दरी कमलानना ॥ ५ ॥
The kayastha (clerk caste) and the goldsmith became close friends. The goldsmith had one daughter, beautiful, with a face like a lotus.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कायस्थस्याभवद्भार्या दैवयोगात्तदा शिवे ॥स्वर्णकारस्य यत्सर्वं स्थितं तेन हृतं धनम् ॥ ६ ॥
By chance, O Parvati, she became the kayastha's wife. He took away all the wealth the goldsmith had.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
द्रव्यक्षयमथो ज्ञात्वा स्वर्णकारो मृतः पुरा ॥पुत्रदारादिकं त्यक्त्वा कायस्थश्च तदा शिवे ॥ ७ ॥
Learning that his wealth was gone, the goldsmith died. Then the kayastha, O Parvati, left his sons, wife and the rest.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तया सार्द्धं रमत्येको पापात्मा कमलानने ॥एवं बहुगते काले कायस्थोऽपि मृतः प्रिये ॥ ८ ॥
O lotus-faced one, the sinful man took his pleasure with her alone. After much time had passed, dear one, the kayastha died too.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कुम्भीपाकेऽभवद्दासो वर्षलक्षत्रयं तथा ॥पुनः कर्मवशाद्देवि मृगयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ९ ॥
For three hundred thousand years he was a slave in the Kumbhipaka hell. Then, by the pull of his deeds, O Goddess, he was born as a deer.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मानुषत्वं वरारोहे पुनः प्राप्तो महीतले ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो वंशो नैव प्रजायते ॥ १० ॥
O lovely one, he got a human birth again on earth. He has money and grain, but no family line is born.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
बहुरोगसमायुक्तो ज्वरोऽतीव मृतेः समः ॥पुत्राणां मरणं देवि शीतलाद्यैरुपद्रवैः ॥ ११ ॥
He has many diseases, and a fever that is nearly death. His sons die from smallpox and other troubles, O Goddess.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि परस्त्रीगमनं कृतम् ॥त्यक्ता विवाहिता नारी पुत्रकन्यासमन्विता ॥ १२ ॥
In the past birth, O Goddess, he lay with another man's wife. He left the wife he had married, who had sons and daughters.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तत्पापेनैव भो देवि पुत्रादीनां विनाशनम् ॥गर्भनाशो भवेद्देवि वन्ध्यात्वं जायते शिवे ॥ १३ ॥
By that sin, O Goddess, his sons and others are lost. His wife loses her unborn babies, O Parvati, and she is vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children).
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
काकवन्ध्या भवेन्नारी सुखं नैव प्रजायते ॥स्वल्पयोनिकृशाङ्गश्च कथाश्रवणतत्परः ॥ १४ ॥
The woman becomes a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child), and no happiness is born. He has a small body, thin limbs, and likes to listen to stories.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
विद्यादानविहीनश्च स्वकुले बहुनिष्ठुरः ॥अस्य शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि कृतं यत्पूर्वजन्मनि ॥ १५ ॥
He is without learning and without giving, and very harsh in his own family. I will tell the calming rite for what he did in the past birth.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तत्सर्वं शृणु मे देवि यतः शुद्धिमवाप्नुयात् ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं वरानने ॥ १६ ॥
Hear all of it, O Goddess, by which he is made clean. Let him do a hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) with the Gayatri root mantra (sacred words), O lovely one.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
हवनं तद्दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥हरिवंशश्रुतिं कुर्य्यात् त्रिवारावृत्तिसंख्यया ॥ १७ ॥
Then he does a homa (fire offering) with one tenth of that count. He also does tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling). Let him have the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna) heard three times over.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशवर्णां ततो दद्यात्स्वर्णदानं विशेषतः ॥निष्कत्रयं प्रदद्याच्च ततः पापक्षयो भवेत् ॥ १८ ॥
Then let him give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), and above all a gift of gold. Let him give three nishka (a unit of gold weight). Then the sin comes to an end. (Our text is unclear here: one letter of the word for the ten-colour gift is hard to read.)
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
भोजयेद्ब्राह्मणान्षाष्टिं तथा दद्याच्च दक्षिणाम् ॥एवं कृते विधाने च पुत्रो भवति नान्यथा ॥ १९ ॥
Let him feed sixty brahmins and give them a fee. When this rite is done, a son is born, not otherwise.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥एवं यदा न कुर्यात्तु तदा रोगाः पुनः पुनः ॥ २० ॥
All diseases come to an end. Do not doubt this. If he does not do this, the diseases come again and again.
पूर्वाफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
जायन्ते नात्र संदेहः पूर्वजन्मफलात्किल ॥ २१ ॥
They come again and again, without doubt, from the fruit of the past birth.
Verse 46.6 says the clerk took away all the wealth the goldsmith had. Verse 46.12 adds that he left the wife he had married.
Verse 46.16 says to do a hundred thousand Gayatri japa. Verse 46.17 adds a fire offering with one tenth of the count and hearing the Harivamsha three times.