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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 56
चित्रा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers chitra 1st pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A warrior of Gaya, rich and stingy, killed buffalo calves every year.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book ties illness to harm done to the young of buffaloes. The remedy is a gift, a black cow with her calf, japa, a road garden and a feast.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
चित्रा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥गयापुर्यां महादेवि क्षत्री ह्येकोऽवसत्पुरा ॥कुकर्मणि रतो नित्यं धनाढ्यः कृपणः शठः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O great Goddess, a kshatriya (warrior class) man once lived in the city of Gaya. He was always fond of bad deeds. He was rich, stingy and cunning.
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स्त्री भवेच्चञ्चला तस्य द्वौ पुत्रौ च वरानने ॥कन्या चैका विशालाक्षी जाता तस्यां वरानने ॥२॥
His wife was fickle, O fair-faced one. They had two sons. They also had one daughter with wide eyes.
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उद्वाहिता तदा देवि कन्यका व्यभिचारिणी ॥महिषीपुत्रघातं च प्रत्यब्दमकरोत्प्रिये ॥३॥
The daughter was married, O Goddess, but she was unfaithful. Every year the father killed buffalo calves, dear one.
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अनेनैव प्रकारेण वयः सर्वं क्षयं गतम् ॥ततः सर्पेण वै दष्टस्तस्य मृत्युरभूत्तदा ॥ ४ ॥
In this way his whole life was spent. Then a snake bit him and he died.
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यमदूतैर्महाघोरे निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥त्रिसप्ततिसहस्राणि वर्षाणि च वरानने ॥ ५ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into the dreadful ocean of hell. He stayed there seventy-three thousand years, O fair-faced one.
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भुक्त्वा कष्टं विशालाक्षि गर्भत्वं च ततो गतः ॥मध्यदेशे विशालाक्षि नरजन्मा च क्षत्रियः ॥ ६ ॥
After suffering that pain, O wide-eyed one, he went into a womb. He was born as a man in the Middle Country, a kshatriya (warrior class).
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पुत्रो न जायते देवि पूर्वपापानुसारतः ॥कन्यका रजसा युक्ता विधवा जायते प्रिये ॥ ७ ॥
No son is born, O Goddess, because of his old sin. The daughter reaches her age and becomes a widow, dear one.
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महिषीपुत्रघातेन रोगोत्पत्तिश्च जायते ॥अस्य पापस्य शान्त्यर्थं पुण्यं शृणु वरानने ॥ ८ ॥
Illness arises from killing the young of buffaloes. Listen, O fair-faced one, to the merit that ends this sin.
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स्ववित्तस्याष्टमं भागं ब्राह्मणाय ददेत वै ॥एकां कृष्णां च गां देवि स्वर्णशृङ्गीं सवत्सकाम् ॥९॥
He should give an eighth of his own wealth to a brahmin. He should give one black cow with a calf, O Goddess, with horns covered in gold.
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सर्वलक्षणसंपन्नां वस्त्रमुक्तादिभूषिताम् ॥ब्राह्मणाय तदा दद्याच्छय्यादानं विशेषतः ॥ १० ॥
The cow should have all good marks, with cloth and pearls and other ornaments. Then he should give her to a brahmin. He should give a bed too, above all.
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गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यामयुतं जपमाचरेत् ॥हवनं तद्दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं ततः ॥ ११ ॥
He should do 10,000 japa (repeating a mantra). He should use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). He should also use the Jatavedas (a name of the fire god) mantra (sacred words). Then a homa (fire offering) of a tenth of that. Then tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling).
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पथि मध्ये वरारोहे पञ्चवृक्षस्य वाटिकाम् ॥कारयेद्विभवेनैव विष्णुवृक्षादिभिर्वृताम् ॥ १२ ॥
He should make a garden of five trees along the road, O fair-hipped one. He should do it as his means allow, ringed with Vishnu's trees and others.
चित्रा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भोजयेद्देवि षट्षष्टिब्राह्मणान् वेदपारगान् ॥निष्कत्रयसुवर्णस्य प्रतिमां वस्त्रभूषिताम् ॥ १३ ॥
O Goddess, he should feed sixty-six brahmins who know the Vedas well. He should make an image of gold of three nishka (a unit of gold weight), dressed and decorated.
चित्रा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ब्राह्मणाय ततो दद्यात् विष्णुभक्ताय सुन्दरि ॥एवं कृत्वा विशालाक्षि पूर्वजन्मकृतं च यत् ॥१४॥
Then he should give it, dear one, to a brahmin who loves Vishnu. O wide-eyed one, doing so he clears the sin done in a past life.
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पापं प्रणाशयेद्देवि नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥काकवन्ध्या च या नारी लभते पुत्रमुत्तमम् ॥ १५ ॥
He destroys that sin, O Goddess. There is no need to doubt this. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets an excellent son.
चित्रा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुत्रश्च जायते देवि सुरूपेण समन्वितः ॥रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥१६॥
A son is born, O Goddess, with a good form. All diseases fade away. There is no need to doubt this.
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मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १७ ॥
A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets an excellent, long-lived son.
Verse 56.3 says the man killed buffalo calves every year. Verse 56.8 says illness arises from killing the young of buffaloes.
Verse 56.9 says to give an eighth of his wealth to a brahmin, with a black cow and her calf. Verse 56.12 adds a garden of five trees along the road.