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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 54
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers hasta 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A craftsman on the Kaushiki river loved to worship Vishnu, and saved wealth out of miserliness.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book links this to a home with no children. The remedy is daily Sun worship, a Sunday vrata, Gayatri japa and bathing at Prayaga.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥कौशिक्या दक्षिणे कूले कारुको न्यवसत्प्रिये ॥विष्णुभक्तिरतो नित्यं कृषिकर्मसु तत्परः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Dear one, a craftsman once lived on the south bank of the Kaushiki river. He always loved to worship Vishnu. He was busy with farm work.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
धनं तु सञ्चितं देवि कार्पण्यात्पुण्यवर्जितम् ॥एकस्मिन् समये रात्रौ क्षेत्रे व्याघ्रेण वै हतः ॥ २ ॥
O Goddess, he saved up wealth out of miserliness, with no good deeds. One night a tiger killed him in his field.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यमदूतैर्महाघोरे रौरवे पातितस्तदा ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ३ ॥
Then the messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into the dreadful Raurava hell. He suffered the pains of hell for sixty thousand years.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततः कर्मवशाद्देवि बिडालत्वं ततो गतः ॥पुनः कुक्कुटयोनिर्वै शृगालत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥ ४ ॥
Then, O Goddess, by the force of his deeds he became a cat. Next he was a rooster, and then a jackal.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुनर्मानुषयोनिश्च मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥पुत्रकन्याविहीनश्च अर्शोरोगेण पीडितः ॥ ५ ॥
Then he was born as a man in the Middle Country, O fair-faced one. He has no sons or daughters. He is afflicted with piles.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अस्य शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि पूर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥सूर्यमाराधयेन्नित्यं व्रतं सूर्यस्य वासरे ॥ ६ ॥
I will tell the prayashchitta (remedy for a past wrong) for this, to clear the old sin. He should worship Surya (the Sun god) every day. He should keep Surya's vrata (vow of fasting and worship) on Sunday.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण दशायुतजपं तथा ॥प्रयागे नियतः स्नानं माघवैशाखकार्तिके ॥ ७ ॥
He should do a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) japa (repeating a mantra). He should use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words). He should bathe with discipline at Prayaga in Magha, Vaishakha and Kartik.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
भूमिदानं ततो देवि वित्तशाठ्यं न कारयेत् ॥गोमिथुनं ततो दद्यात्सर्वालंकारभूषितम् ॥ ८ ॥
Then, O Goddess, he should give land. He should not cheat with his money. Then he should give a cow and bull pair, dressed in all ornaments.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कूष्माण्डं नारिकेरं च पञ्चरत्नसमन्वितम् ॥गङ्गामध्ये प्रदातव्यं तुलसीपत्रसंयुतम् ॥माल्यस्य रचना कार्या स्वर्णैर्दशपलैः शुभा ॥ ९ ॥
A pumpkin and a coconut should be given in the middle of the Ganga. Add five gems and tulasi (holy basil) leaves. A fine garland should be made with ten pala (a unit of weight) of gold.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
विधिपूर्वं विशेषेण विविधं गन्धचर्चितम् ॥आचार्याय ततो दद्यात् सर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥ १० ॥
All this should be done by the rule, with care, and with scents of many kinds. Then he should give it to the teacher, to clear all sin.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्रश्च जायते देवि कन्यका नैव जायते ॥सर्वे रोगाः क्षयं यान्ति वन्ध्यात्वं च प्रणश्यति ॥काकवन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं मृतवत्सा च पुत्रिणी ॥ ११ ॥
A son is born, O Goddess, but no daughter. All diseases fade away. The state of being a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) is destroyed. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a living son.
हस्त नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अधनो धनमाप्नोति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १२ ॥
A poor man gets wealth. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 54.6 says to worship Surya every day and keep Surya's vrata on Sunday. Verse 54.7 adds a hundred thousand Gayatri japa and bathing at Prayaga.
Verse 54.8 says he should not cheat with his money, and should give land and a cow and bull pair. Verse 54.12 says a poor man gets wealth.