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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 58
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers chitra 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. Ratidasa, a seller of goods in Sudharma, spent wealth that a cowherd friend had left in his house.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book also tells of young animals killed in his trade. The remedy is Shiva worship, Namah Shivaya japa, earthen lingas and a fire offering.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥अयोध्यापुरतो देवि योजनत्रयदक्षिणे ॥सुधर्मपुरविख्याते न्यवसन् बहवो जनाः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Goddess, three yojana (a measure of distance) south of Ayodhya there was a town called Sudharma. Many people lived there.
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रतिदासेति विख्यातो बभूव वस्तुविक्रयी ॥दलाक्षीति समाख्याता तस्य पत्नी च स्वैरिणी ॥२॥
One man was known as Ratidasa, a seller of goods. His wife was named Dalakshi, and she was loose in conduct.
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पतिं न पूजयेद्देवि रूपगर्ववशा तथा ॥महिष्यो बहुला आसन् गावो विक्रयकारणात् ॥ ३ ॥
O Goddess, she did not honour her husband, led by pride in her looks. He had many buffaloes and cows for selling.
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महिषीपुत्रघातं च प्रत्यहं खलु जायते ॥छागस्य विक्रयो नित्यं छागानां वध एव च ॥ ४ ॥
Every day the young of buffaloes were killed. He always sold goats and killed goats too.
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गोप एको महाप्राज्ञो धनार्थी स्वर्णसंयुतः ॥तत्र जातो महादेवि वैश्यमित्रं हि बाल्यतः ॥ ५ ॥
There was one very wise cowherd, O great Goddess, who wanted wealth and had gold. He was born there and had been the merchant's friend from childhood.
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तस्य गेहे स्थितो देवि धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥वैश्यपत्नी तदा देवि गोपं प्रति तदाभजत् ॥ ६ ॥
He stayed in the merchant's house, O Goddess, rich in money and grain. Then the merchant's wife, O Goddess, took up with the cowherd.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं बहुगते काले तस्य गोपस्य वै मृतिः ॥वैश्यगेहे महादेवि धनं गोपस्य वै खलु ॥ ७ ॥
After a long time the cowherd died. His wealth, O great Goddess, stayed in the merchant's house.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वैश्येनैव तु तत्सर्वं धनं तस्य व्ययं कृतम् ॥ततः सर्वं वयो यातं वैश्यमृत्युरभूत्तदा ॥ ८ ॥
The merchant spent all that wealth. Then his whole life passed, and the merchant died.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गङ्गायां च विशालाक्षि पत्नी तस्य तथा मृता ॥वैश्यस्याभूत्तथा स्वर्गो वर्षषष्टिसहस्रकम् ॥ ९ ॥
His wife died in the Ganga, O wide-eyed one. The merchant went to heaven for sixty thousand years.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वैश्यपत्नी ततो देवि कर्दमे नरके गता ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ १० ॥
Then the merchant's wife went to the hell of mud, O Goddess. She suffered the pains of hell for sixty thousand years.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृता सा तु सर्पयोनिं तथा गता ॥सर्पयोनिं ततो भुक्त्वा गङ्गायां मरणात् खलु ॥११॥
She came out of hell and went into a snake's birth. After the snake's life she died in the Ganga.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शूद्रं प्रति पुरा स्नेहस्ततः शूद्रः स चाभवत् ॥वैश्यः स्वर्गफलं भुक्त्वा मानुषत्वं ततोऽगमत् ॥१२॥
Earlier he had a friendship with a shudra (servant class) man. So he became a shudra. The merchant enjoyed the fruit of heaven and then came to human birth.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
धनधान्यसमायुक्तो रूपवानतिथेर्हितः ॥गुणी बहुधनी ज्ञानी पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥ १३ ॥
He is rich in money and grain, handsome, and kind to guests. He is good, very rich and wise. But he has no sons or daughters.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वैश्यस्य शूद्रजातित्वं पूर्वस्नेहफलं यतः ॥पत्नी सा च समायाता पूर्वसंबन्धकारणात् ॥ १४ ॥
The merchant's birth as a shudra is the fruit of his old love. That wife came to him because of the old tie.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यतो द्रव्यं समाभुक्तं सर्वं शूद्रस्य पापिना ॥ततश्चैव समुत्पन्नाः कन्या बह्व्यः सुरेश्वरि ॥ १५ ॥
Because that sinner ate all the shudra's wealth, many daughters were then born, O Goddess of the gods.
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महिषीपुत्रघातित्वाद्वायुरोगादयस्तथा ॥स्वपतेर्वञ्चनं कृत्वा परपुंसि रता यतः ॥ १६ ॥
From killing the young of buffaloes come wind troubles and the like. She cheated her husband and loved other men.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्मात्पुत्रस्य मरणं गर्भपातः पुनः पुनः ॥अस्य शान्तिमहं वक्ष्ये शृणु देवि वरेऽनघे ॥ १७ ॥
So a son dies, and pregnancies are lost again and again. I will tell the remedy for this. Listen, O Goddess, blameless one.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गृहवित्तषडंशेषु पुण्यं कार्यं च यत्नतः ॥वापीकूपतडागादि पथि मध्ये च कारयेत् ॥ १८ ॥
He should do good works with a sixth of the wealth of his house, with care. He should have wells, ponds and tanks built along the road.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शिवस्य पूजनं चैव शिवभक्तिमहर्निशम् ॥नमः शिवाय मन्त्रं च पञ्चलक्षं च जापयेत् ॥ १९ ॥
He should worship Shiva and have devotion to Shiva day and night. He should have the mantra (sacred words) 'Namah Shivaya' said five lakh (500,000) times, as japa (repeating a mantra).
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पार्थिवाँल्लक्षसंख्याकान् पूजयेच्च यथाविधि ॥ॐ नमः शिवाय मन्त्रस्तु सर्वपापप्रणाशनः ॥ २० ॥
He should worship a lakh (100,000) earthen lingas (Shiva's sacred stone emblem), by the rule. The mantra 'Om Namah Shivaya' destroys all sin.
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देहान्ते मुक्तिदश्चैव मर्त्यलोके च कामदः ॥हवनं कारयेद्देवि कुण्डे चैव तु शोभने ॥ २१ ॥
It gives freedom at the end of life, and gives wishes in the world of mortals. O Goddess, he should have a homa (fire offering) done in a fine fire pit.
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चतुरस्रे विशालाक्षि तिलधान्यादितण्डुलैः ॥ताम्रवर्णां ततो देवि गां दद्याद्विदुषे प्रिये ॥ २२ ॥
The pit should be square, O wide-eyed one. Use sesame, grain and rice. Then, dear one, he should give a copper-coloured cow to a learned man.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
निष्कमात्रं ततः स्वर्णं ब्राह्मणाय प्रदापयेत् ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो व्याधिनाशो भवेद् ध्रुवम् ॥ २३ ॥
He should have a nishka (a unit of gold weight) of gold given to a brahmin. When this is done, there is no doubt. Disease is surely destroyed.
चित्रा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्रश्च जायते देवि पुनर्गर्भो न नश्यति ॥काकवन्ध्या पुनः पुत्रं प्रसूयेत न संशयः ॥ २४ ॥
A son is born, O Goddess, and pregnancy is not lost again. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) bears a son again. There is no doubt.
Verse 58.7 and Verse 58.8 say the cowherd's wealth stayed in the merchant's house, and the merchant spent all of it.
Verse 58.19 says to worship Shiva and say Namah Shivaya five lakh times as japa. Verse 58.20 adds worship of a lakh earthen lingas.