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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 60
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers svati 1st pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. King Rudradharma of Kanyakubja was calm and guarded his people.
Classical view, not medical advice.
A brahmin came to him for protection, and the king's son went to the brahmin's wife. Out of love, the king sheltered his son. The remedy is restoring old wells, a cow with a calf, a bath at Kashi and a gold lotus.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥कान्यकुब्जे महादेवि राजाप्येकोऽवसत्पुरा ॥राजधर्मरतः शान्तः प्रजापालनतत्परः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O great Goddess, a king once lived in Kanyakubja. He was devoted to a king's duty, calm, and busy guarding his people.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
रुद्रधर्मेति विख्यातो भार्या तस्य प्रभावती ॥एकस्मिन् दिवसे देवि ब्राह्मणो भयपीडितः ॥ २ ॥
He was known as Rudradharma. His wife was Prabhavati. One day, O Goddess, a brahmin came, struck by fear.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
शरणं श्रावयामास शरणार्थी द्विजोत्तमः ॥तस्य भार्या महादेवि सुरूपाप्यतिसुन्दरी ॥ ३ ॥
The best of brahmins sought shelter and asked for protection. His wife, O great Goddess, was very beautiful.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
राजपुत्रेण तस्यां तु गमनं मुग्धतः कृतम् ॥शरणं दत्तवान् राजा पुत्रस्नेहेन यन्त्रितः ॥ ४ ॥
The king's son went to her, out of infatuation. Held by love for his son, the king gave him shelter.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एतं बहुगते काले नृपस्य मरणं यदा ॥तदा यमाज्ञया दूतैः क्षिप्तो नरककर्दमे ॥ ५ ॥
After a long time the king died. Then by the order of Yama (the god of death), his messengers threw him into the mud of hell.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि नरके परिपच्यते ॥नरकान्निःसृतो देवि शूकरत्वं ततोऽलभत् ॥ ६ ॥
He was cooked in hell for sixty thousand years. Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born as a pig.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनः शृगालयोनिं च मानुषत्वं ततोऽगमत् ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो यहुशो गुणवानपि ॥ ७ ॥
Then he was a jackal, and then a man. He is rich in money and grain, and has many good qualities.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनर्विवाहिता जाता पत्नी तस्य प्रभावती ॥पूर्वकर्मफलादेवि तस्य पुत्रो न जायते ॥ ८ ॥
Prabhavati became his wife again. Because of his old deeds, O Goddess, no son is born to him.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
शरीरं सततं देवि ज्वरेणैव प्रपीडितम् ॥वातपित्तकफानां च संभवः स्याद्वयोगते ॥ ९ ॥
His body is always troubled by fever. Wind, bile and phlegm troubles arise as old age comes.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
अस्य दानं शृणु त्वं हि यथा पापक्षयस्तथा ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ १० ॥
Listen to the gift for this, by which the sin is destroyed. He should do good works with an eighth of the wealth of his house.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वापीकूपतडागानां जीर्णोद्धारं यदा भवेत् ॥तदा पापं क्षयं याति पूर्वजन्मसमुद्भवम् ॥ ११ ॥
When old wells, ponds and tanks are restored, then the sin from a past life is destroyed.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
विष्णोरराटमन्त्रेण जपं कुर्याद्विचक्षणः ॥दद्याद्गां वेदविदुषे सवत्सां चैव शोभने ॥ १२ ॥
The wise one should do japa (repeating a mantra) with the mantra (sacred words) 'Vishnor aratam'. He should give a cow with a calf to a man who knows the Vedas, O fair one.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वस्त्ररत्नसमायुक्तां घण्टाचामरभूषिताम् ॥ग्रहणेर्कहिमांश्वोश्च काश्यां स्नानं समाचरेत् ॥ १३ ॥
The cow should have cloth and gems, and be adorned with a bell and a chowrie fan. He should bathe at Kashi at an eclipse of the sun or the moon.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
निष्कत्रयसुवर्णस्य कमलं कारयेत्ततः ॥ब्राह्मणाय वरारोहे प्रदद्यात्कमलं शुभम् ॥ १४ ॥
Then he should have a lotus made of gold of three nishka (a unit of gold weight). O fair-hipped one, he should give the fine lotus to a brahmin.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं कृते वरारोहे सर्वपापक्षयो भवेत् ॥अपि वन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १५ ॥
When this is done, O fair-hipped one, all sin is destroyed. Even a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) gets an excellent, long-lived son.
स्वाती नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सर्वे रोगाः क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १६ ॥
All diseases fade away. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 60.3 says a brahmin came to the king asking for protection. Verse 60.4 says the king's son went to the brahmin's wife, and the king sheltered his son.
Verse 60.10 and Verse 60.11 say to restore old wells, ponds and tanks with an eighth of the house wealth. Verse 60.14 adds a gold lotus of three nishka for a brahmin.