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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 61
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter covers svati 2nd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. Dhaneshvara, a brahmin in the city of Vindhya, left his duties and traded in cows, gold and elephants.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He saved wealth and gave nothing. The remedy is ten lakh Gayatri japa, a fire offering, Govinda worship, tulasi and gifts.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥गङ्गाया दक्षिणे कूले विन्ध्ये च नगरोत्तमे ॥द्विजोऽप्येकोऽवसद्देवि ब्रह्मकर्मविवर्जितः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: O Goddess, on the south bank of the Ganga, in the fine city of Vindhya, a brahmin lived. He had left the duties of a brahmin.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
अनाचाररतो नित्यं परस्त्रीलम्पटः शठः ॥व्यापारं कुरुते नित्यं गोहिरण्यगजादिकम् ॥ २ ॥
He was always badly behaved, fond of other men's wives, and cunning. He did trade in cows, gold, elephants and the like.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
बहुद्रव्यमभूत्तस्य त्रिंशत्कोटिप्रमाणकम् ॥द्रव्यस्य संग्रहं नित्यं न च किंचिद्ददाति सः ॥ ३ ॥
He had wealth of thirty crore (a crore is ten million). He kept saving wealth and gave nothing at all.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
स्वभार्यां च परित्यज्य परभार्यारतो द्विजः ॥धनेश्वर इति ख्यातं तस्य नाम पुराभवत् ॥ ४ ॥
The brahmin left his own wife and loved other men's wives. His name in that time was famed as Dhaneshvara.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ततो बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥यमदूतेन वै बद्धा निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥ ५ ॥
After a long time he died. The messenger of Yama (the god of death) bound him and threw him into the ocean of hell. (Our text is unclear here: one letter in the word for 'bound' is unclear.)
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
महाघोरे सुरश्रेष्ठे कल्पमेकं तदावसत् ॥पुनर्व्याघ्रस्य योनिं च वृषयोनिं ततोऽलभत् ॥ ६ ॥
O best of goddesses, he stayed in that dreadful place for one kalpa (a very long age). Then he got a tiger's birth, and then a bull's.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पुनर्मानुषयोनिं च मृतवत्सत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥महारोगसमायुक्तो न सुखं लभते क्वचित् ॥ ७ ॥
Then he was born a man, and became a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). He suffers from a great illness and never finds joy.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
अस्य शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु देवि वरानने ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण दशलक्षजपं यदा ॥ ८ ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Listen, O fair-faced Goddess. He should do ten lakh (1,000,000) japa (repeating a mantra). He should use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) root mantra (sacred words).
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
दशांशहवनं चैव तदा पापक्षयो भवेत् ॥गोविन्दस्य सदा ध्यानं सदा गोविन्दकीर्तनम् ॥ ९ ॥
Then a homa (fire offering) of a tenth, and the sin is destroyed. He should always meditate on Govinda and always sing the praise of Govinda.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
नित्यं प्रपूजयेद्देवं शङ्खचक्रगदाधरम् ॥पीताम्बरधरं श्यामं श्रीवत्सेन विराजितम् ॥ १० ॥
He should worship every day the god who holds conch, discus and mace. He wears yellow cloth, is dark in colour, and shines with the Shrivatsa mark.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
प्रत्यब्दं कार्तिके मासि तुलसीं विष्णुरूपिणीम् ॥पूजयेद्दीपदानं च दद्याद्भार्यासमन्वितः ॥ ११ ॥
Every year in the month of Kartik he should worship the tulasi (holy basil), who is Vishnu's form. He should give lamps, together with his wife.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गोदानं शास्त्ररीत्या च गोदानाच्च वसुंधराम् ॥यथाशक्ति च भो देवि ब्राह्मणाय शिवात्मने ॥ १२ ॥
He should give a cow by the rules of the books. After the cow, he should give land, O Goddess, as his means allow. He gives them to a brahmin devoted to Shiva.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं कृते न संदेहः पूर्वजन्मकृतं च यत् ॥तत्पापं नाशमायाति सर्वरोगक्षयो भवेत् ॥ १३ ॥
When this is done, there is no doubt. The sin done in a past life is destroyed. All disease fades away.
स्वाती नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
वन्ध्या च प्रशमं याति पुत्रलाभो भवेद् ध्रुवम् ॥काकवन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १४ ॥
A vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) is barren no more. She surely gets a son. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 61.3 says the brahmin kept saving wealth and gave nothing at all. The book offers giving and worship as the remedy.
Verse 61.8 says to do ten lakh Gayatri japa. Verse 61.11 adds a yearly lamp offering to the tulasi in Kartik, with his wife.