Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 46 · A Clerk Who Took a Goldsmith's Wealth
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
विद्यादानविहीनश्च स्वकुले बहुनिष्ठुरः ॥
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.
तत्सर्वं शृणु मे देवि यतः शुद्धिमवाप्नुयात् ॥
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…
हवनं तद्दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥
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…