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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 59
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter covers chitra 4th pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A brahmin of Pratishthana fell from the Vedas and spent his money on wine and sinful acts.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says the fruit of those deeds came in a later birth. The remedy is Gayatri japa, a fire offering, Sun worship, a Prayaga bath and a milk cow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥देशे पुण्यतमे देवि प्रतिष्ठानपुरे तथा ॥ब्राह्मणो वेदविभ्रष्टस्तत्र वासमकारयत् ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Goddess, in a most holy land, in the town of Pratishthana, a brahmin lived. He had fallen from the Vedas.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
सुरामांसस्य वै भोक्ता नित्यं मत्स्यामिषस्य च ॥पापकार्ये विशालाक्षि व्ययकर्ता दिने दिने ॥ २ ॥
He always took wine, meat and fish. He spent his money on sinful acts, day after day, O wide-eyed one.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तस्य स्त्री परमानाम्नी भ्रष्टा चातीव सुन्दरी ॥पुरपुंसि रता नित्यं निर्भया पतिवञ्चिका ॥ ३ ॥
His wife was named Parama. She was loose in conduct and very beautiful. She always loved other men. She had no fear and cheated her husband.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
एवं सर्वं वयो यातं तयोर्मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥पुण्यक्षेत्रे च गङ्गायां देवगन्धर्वपूजिते ॥ ४ ॥
So their whole life passed, and they both died. They died at the holy Ganga, honoured by gods and gandharvas (heavenly singers).
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तस्य विप्रस्य वै स्वर्गः कल्पमेकं वरानने ॥भुक्त्वा च विविधं सौख्यं देवकन्याभिरावृतः ॥ ५ ॥
That brahmin had heaven for one kalpa (a very long age), O fair-faced one. He enjoyed many joys, surrounded by heavenly maidens.
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ततः पुण्यक्षये जाते मृत्युलोके सुरेश्वरि ॥ ६ ॥
Then, when his merit ran out, he came to the world of mortals, O Goddess of the gods.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
जन्माऽभवत्तस्य नरस्य शुद्धे महत्कुले पुण्ययुतेधनाढ्ये ॥ कान्ता तु सैव प्रबभूव या पुरास्थिता तदीया व्यभिचारचित्ता ॥ ७ ॥
That man was born in a pure, great family with merit and wealth. His wife was the same woman as before, with a mind for adultery.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मद्यपानादिकं पापं पूर्वजन्मनि यत्कृतम् ॥तत्फलेन महादेवि व्याधिग्रस्तस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ८ ॥
The sin of wine and the like, done in his past life, bore fruit, O great Goddess. So he became ill.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
अथ शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि यतः पापक्षयो भवेत् ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं वरानने ॥ ९ ॥
Now I will tell the remedy, by which sin is destroyed. He should do a lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra). Use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words), O fair-faced one.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
हवनं तद्दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥देवस्याराधनं नित्यं सूर्य्यस्य व्रतमाचरेत् ॥ १० ॥
Then a homa (fire offering) of a tenth of that. Then tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling). He should worship the god every day. He should keep Surya's vrata (vow of fasting and worship).
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
प्रयागे नियतः स्नानं माघे मासि यथाविधि ॥पत्न्या सह विशालाक्षि ततः पापं प्रणश्यति ॥ ११ ॥
He should bathe with discipline at Prayaga in the month of Magha, by the rule. He should do it with his wife, O wide-eyed one. Then the sin is destroyed.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
षडंशं च ततो देवि विप्रेभ्यो दानमाचरेत् ॥ततो वर्षेण महतीं गां च दद्यात्पयस्विनीम् ॥ १२ ॥
Then he should give a sixth of his wealth to brahmins. After a year he should give a great milk cow.
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
भूमिं वृत्तिकरीं दद्यात् पुत्रपौत्रानुजीविनीम् ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशो भवति नान्यथा ॥ १३ ॥
He should give land that gives a living, to last for sons and grandsons. When this is done, there is no doubt. The family will go on, not otherwise. (Our text is unclear here: one blotted letter in the words 'when this is done'.)
चित्रा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
रोगार्तो मुच्यते रोगात्काकवन्ध्या सुतं लभेत् ॥गर्भभ्रष्टा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १४ ॥
The sick one is freed from disease. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son. A woman who lost her child in the womb gets an excellent, long-lived son.
Verse 59.8 says the sin of wine and the like, done in his past life, bore fruit in this one. The book then gives a remedy.
Verse 59.9 says to do a lakh of Gayatri japa. Verse 59.11 adds a bath at Prayaga in Magha with his wife, and Verse 59.12 a gift of a sixth of his wealth.