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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 62
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers svati 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A cowherd of Kurukshetra kept many buffaloes, cows and bulls and saved much wealth.
Classical view, not medical advice.
On one holy day he gave ten cows as a gift. The remedy is a gift to a brahmin, Gayatri japa, a fire offering, a feast and a cow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥कुरुक्षेत्रे महातीर्थे वल्लवो न्यवसत्प्रिये ॥कृषिकर्मरतो नित्यं क्रयविक्रयतत्परः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Dear one, a cowherd lived at the great holy place Kurukshetra. He loved farm work and was busy in buying and selling.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
महिषीगोवृषाणां च संग्रहं चाकरोद्बहु ॥तस्य भार्या वरारोहे परपुंसि रता सदा ॥ २ ॥
He kept many buffaloes, cows and bulls. His wife, O fair-hipped one, always loved other men.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
स्वपतिं तर्जयेन्नित्यं सदा निष्ठुरभाषणात् ॥संग्रहो बहुद्रव्याणां न दानं दत्तवान् क्वचित् ॥ ३ ॥
She always scolded her husband with harsh words. He saved much wealth and never gave a gift.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एकस्मिन् दिवसे देवि चन्द्रपर्वणि शोभने ॥दशसंख्यं च गोदानं कृतं क्षेत्रे तदा किल ॥ ४ ॥
One day, O Goddess, on a fine holy day of the moon, he gave ten cows as a gift. He did it at the holy place.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततो बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥यमदूतेन भो देवि निक्षिप्तो नरके किल ॥ ५ ॥
After a long time he died. The messenger of Yama (the god of death) threw him into hell.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
त्रिंशद्वर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥पुनर्माहिषयोन्यां च जातः खलु वरानने ॥ ६ ॥
After suffering the pains of hell for thirty thousand years, O fair-faced one, he was born a buffalo.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरयोनिं पुनर्लेभे धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥जातः खलु वरारोहे पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥ ७ ॥
He got a man's birth again, with money and grain. He was born, O fair-hipped one, without sons or daughters.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
रोगवान्नात्र संदेहो जङ्घापीडा ततोऽधिका ॥अस्य शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु त्वं च यथातथम् ॥ ८ ॥
There is no doubt he is ill. He has great pain in the legs. I will tell the remedy for this. Listen exactly as it is.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
षडंशं च ततो दानं विप्राय विदुषे तथा ॥गायत्रीलक्षजाप्यं च ततो होमं प्रकल्पयेत् ॥ ९ ॥
He should give a sixth of his wealth to a learned brahmin. Then he should do a lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Then he should arrange a homa (fire offering).
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशांशं तर्पणं कुर्यात्तद्दशांशं च मार्जनम् ॥गामेकां कपिलां दद्यात् स्वर्णशृङ्गीं सहाम्बराम् ॥ १० ॥
He should do tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) of a tenth of that. Then marjana (sprinkling) of a tenth of that. He should give one tawny cow with horns of gold, together with cloth.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणान्पञ्चपञ्चाशत् पक्वान्नेन च भोजयेत् ॥पञ्च पात्राणि दद्याद्वै शय्यादानं यथाविधि ॥ ११ ॥
He should feed fifty-five brahmins with cooked food. He should give five vessels. He should give a bed by the rule.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशवर्णाः प्रदातव्या ब्राह्मणेभ्यो यथाविधि ॥एवं कृते न संदेहः शीघ्रं पुत्रः प्रजायते ॥ १२ ॥
A dashavarna (a gift of ten colours) should be given to brahmins by the rule. When this is done, there is no doubt. A son is born soon.
स्वाती नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १३ ॥
All diseases fade away. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 62.9 says to give a sixth of the wealth to a learned brahmin and do a lakh of Gayatri japa. Verse 62.11 adds a meal for fifty-five brahmins.
Verse 62.4 says that on a fine holy day of the moon he gave ten cows as a gift at the holy place.