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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 50
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers uttara phalguni 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A rich oil-presser of Gahana gave poison to his elder wife.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book links this to a home without a son. The remedy is good works, Gayatri and Tryambaka japa, gifts at Kashi and a sesame cow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥पुरे वै गहने देवि तैलकारोऽवसत्पुरा ॥महाधनाढ्यो वै देवि कोटिद्रव्येण संयुतः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Long ago, in the city of Gahana, an oil-presser lived, O Goddess. He was very rich, with ten million in wealth.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्य च स्त्रीद्वयं चासीज्ज्येष्ठायां वै विषं ददौ ॥कनिष्ठा च गृहे तस्य गृहिणी धर्मचारिणी ॥ २ ॥
He had two wives. He gave poison to the elder one. The younger one was the housewife and kept to her duty.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं बहुगते काले तैलकारस्य वै शिवे ॥मरणं तस्य वै जातं यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥ ३ ॥
After many days the oil-presser died, O Parvati. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) took him by Yama's order.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
महाकटाहे नरके निक्षिप्तश्च सुदारुणे ॥तत्र च बहुधा पीडा नानानरकयातना ॥ ४ ॥
He was thrown into the terrible hell of the great cauldron. There he suffered much pain and many kinds of hell torment.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
त्रिंशत् सहस्रं वै वर्ष तीव्रं दुःखं च जायते ॥भुक्तं नरकजं दुःखं योनिं सर्पस्य वै शिवे ॥ ५ ॥
For thirty thousand years he had sharp pain. He suffered the pain of hell and the birth of a snake, O Parvati.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गृध्रत्वं कुक्कुटत्वं वै द्वे योनी च तदा गतः ॥मानुषस्य च वै योन्यां जातः खलु वरानने ॥ ६ ॥
He went through two births, a vulture and a cock. Then, O lovely one, he was born in a human womb.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
धनधान्यसमायुक्तो गुणज्ञो ज्ञानवानपि ॥ततो वै तस्य मरणं गङ्गायां देव्यभूत्पुरा ॥ ७ ॥
He is rich in money and grain, knows what is good and has knowledge. Then, O Goddess, he died in the Ganga long ago.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तत्पुण्येन महादेवि मानुषो धनवानभूत् ॥तैलकारो यतः पूर्वं ज्येष्ठायै च विषं ददौ ॥ ८ ॥
By that merit, O great Goddess, he became a rich man. But before, as an oil-presser, he gave poison to his elder wife.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तत्पापेनैव भो देवि पुत्रो नैव प्रजायते ॥बहुरोगेण संयुक्तो भार्या कष्टयुता सदा ॥९॥
By that sin, O Goddess, no son is born to him. He has many diseases, and his wife is always in distress.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अथ शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु देवि सविस्तरम् ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं पुण्यकार्यं करोतु सः ॥ १० ॥
Now I will tell the calming rite. Hear it in full, O Goddess. Let him do good works with one eighth of his house and wealth.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं च कारयेत् ॥हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥ ११ ॥
Let him have japa (repeating a mantra) done a hundred thousand times. He uses the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words). Then a homa (fire offering) with one tenth of that. Then marjana (sprinkling) and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods).
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
त्र्यम्बकेति च मन्त्रेण दशायुतजपं पुनः ॥दशवर्णां ततो दद्यात् कूष्माण्डं रत्नसंयुतम् ॥१२॥
Then japa (repeating a mantra) a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) times, with the mantra that begins Tryambaka. Then let him give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), and a pumpkin set with jewels.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
काश्यां वै ग्रहणे दद्यात्पत्न्या सार्द्धं महद्धनम् ॥कार्तिके माघवैशाखे प्रातःस्नानं समाचरेत् ॥ १३ ॥
At Kashi, at an eclipse, let him give great wealth with his wife. In the months of Kartik, Magha and Vaishakha, let him bathe at dawn.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तिलधेनुं ततो दत्त्वा सद्यः पापात्प्रमुच्यते ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशलाभो भवेत् ध्रुवम् ॥ १४ ॥
Then let him give a cow made of sesame, and he is freed from the sin at once. When this is done, without doubt a family line follows for sure.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कन्यकाजननी यापि सापि पुत्रवती भवेत् ॥मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १५ ॥
Even the woman who gives birth only to daughters becomes the mother of a son. The mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a son, the best, who lives long.
उत्तराफाल्गुनी नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
रोगात्प्रमुच्यते शीघ्रं ज्वरो नैव प्रजायते ॥ १६ ॥
He is quickly freed from disease, and fever is not born.
Verse 50.10 says to do good works with one eighth of the house and wealth. Verse 50.12 adds a hundred thousand japa of the Tryambaka mantra.
Verse 50.13 says to give great wealth with his wife at Kashi at an eclipse. It also says to bathe at dawn in Kartik, Magha and Vaishakha.