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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 63
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter covers svati 4th pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A righteous man of Hastinapur went to Prayaga and stayed there one month.
Classical view, not medical advice.
In a later birth his unfaithful wife from the past is his wife again. The book links his cut-off family line to that tie. The remedy is a gold tree with a shaligrama, a milk cow and Gayatri japa.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥हस्तिनानगरं ख्यातमासीज्जन्तुमनोहरम् ॥अवसन् तत्र भो देवि नराः सर्वे विचक्षणाः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: There was a famed city, Hastinapur, that pleased all beings. O Goddess, all the people who lived there were wise.
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तन्मध्ये शूद्र एको हि धर्मात्मा ज्ञानवानपि ॥स्वधर्मकर्मणी कृत्वा व्ययकर्ता दिने दिने ॥ २ ॥
Among them was one shudra (servant class) man, righteous and wise. He did his own duties and spent his money day by day.
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तस्य पुत्रद्वयं जातं शठं पापयुतं सदा ॥प्रत्यहं जीवघातेन मद्यवेश्यारतौ च तौ ॥ ३ ॥
He had two sons, cunning and always sinful. Every day they killed living beings. They loved wine and prostitutes.
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द्यूतेनैव महादेवि रात्रावह्नि च जक्षतः ॥न च वारयितुं शक्यौ शूद्रेणैतौ तदा शिवे ॥ ४ ॥
They lived by gambling, night and day, O great Goddess. The shudra could not stop these two then, dear one.
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ततस्तु दैवयोगेन प्रयागे शूद्र आगतः ॥मासमेकं ततः स्थित्वा तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥ ५ ॥
Then, by the turn of fate, the shudra came to Prayaga. He stayed there one month and then he died.
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विष्णुदासात्तदा लब्ध्वा मृत्युलोके वरानने ॥विमानवरमारूढो गतः स्वर्गं वरानने ॥ ६ ॥
Then he got a fine heavenly chariot from Vishnu's servant, O fair-faced one. He rode it from the world of mortals to heaven.
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तस्य भार्या विशालाक्षि मर्त्यलोके सुरेश्वरी ॥सा जाता विधवा नारी किंचित्काले गते सति ॥ ७ ॥
His wife, O wide-eyed queen of the gods, stayed in the world of mortals. After a little time she became a widow.
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परपुंसि रता जारे प्रत्यहं व्यभिचारिणी ॥ततो बहुगते काले तस्या मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥ ८ ॥
She took lovers and was unfaithful every day. After a long time she died.
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यमदूतैर्महाघोरैर्निक्षिप्ता नरके तदा ॥विंशत्यब्दसहस्राणि नरके संप्रपीडिता ॥ ९ ॥
The dreadful messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw her into hell. She was tormented in hell for twenty thousand years.
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शूद्रः पुण्यक्षये जाते मृत्युलोके सुरेश्वरि ॥जन्म संप्राप्तवान्देवि मध्यदेशे सुरेश्वरि ॥ १० ॥
When the shudra's merit ran out, O Goddess of the gods, he was born in the world of mortals. O Goddess, he was born in the Middle Country.
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तदा सा तु भवेन्नारी या पुरा व्यभिचारिणी ॥पूर्वजन्मप्रसङ्गाच्च वंशच्छेदो हि जायते ॥ ११ ॥
Then that woman who was unfaithful before is his wife. By the link with his past life, the family line is cut off.
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
रोगश्च जायते देवि कष्टं चैव दिने दिने ॥अस्य पापस्य वै शान्तिं तत्समासेन मे शृणु ॥ १२ ॥
Illness arises, O Goddess, and pain day after day. Listen to me, in brief, to the remedy for this sin.
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
स्वर्णवृक्षवरं कृत्वा स्माङ्गुष्ठपरिमाणकम् ॥फलपुष्पसमायुक्तं पलपञ्चदशस्य तु ॥ १३ ॥
He should make a fine tree of gold, the size of a thumb, with fruit and flowers. It should weigh fifteen pala (a unit of weight). (Our text is unclear here: it may say the size of his own thumb.)
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तस्य वृक्षस्य वै मूले शालिग्रामशिलां शुभाम् ॥पूजयित्वा विधानेन विष्णुरूपं वरानने ॥ १४ ॥
At the root of that tree he should worship a fine shaligrama (a sacred stone of Vishnu) by the rule. It is Vishnu's form, O fair-faced one.
स्वाती नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ब्राह्मणाय ततो दद्याद्गां च दद्यात्पयस्विनीम् ॥गायत्रीमन्त्रजाप्यं तु लक्षमेकं तु कारयेत् ॥ १५ ॥
Then he should give it to a brahmin. He should give a milk cow too. He should have a lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra) done. He should use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) mantra (sacred words).
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ततः पापविशुद्धिः स्यात् पुत्रो भवति नान्यथा ॥सर्वे रोगाः क्षयं यान्ति काकवन्ध्या लभेत्सुतम् ॥ १६ ॥
Then sin is cleared, and a son is born, not otherwise. All diseases fade away. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son.
Verse 63.14 says to worship a shaligrama at the root of a gold tree, by the rule. Verse 63.15 adds giving it to a brahmin with a milk cow, and a lakh of Gayatri japa.
Verse 63.5 says he came to Prayaga and stayed there one month. Verse 63.6 says he then got a heavenly chariot from Vishnu's servant.