Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 59 · A Brahmin of Pratishthana
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
अथ शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि यतः पापक्षयो भवेत् ॥
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…
हवनं तद्दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥
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…
प्रयागे नियतः स्नानं माघे मासि यथाविधि ॥
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…