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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 65
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter covers vishakha 2nd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A brahmin of Vishnu-Kanchi was devoted to Vishnu but hated those devoted to Shiva and the Goddess.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book also says he never greeted other brahmins. The remedy is a gold lotus in the Ganga, a gift of wealth and Gayatri and Jatavedas japa.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥विष्णुकाञ्च्यां महादेवि ब्राह्मणो वेदपारगः ॥अत्याचाररतः शान्तो विष्णुभक्तिपरायणः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: "O Great Goddess, in Vishnu-Kanchi lived a brahmin who knew the Veda. He was given to extreme practices, yet calm and wholly devoted to Vishnu."
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
लाञ्छितो विष्णुचक्रेण विप्रो विद्याविवर्जितः ॥न वेदः पाठ्यते तेन न विप्रः स्पृश्यते क्वचित् ॥ २ ॥
Marked with Vishnu's discus, the brahmin had no learning. He did not recite the Veda. Nowhere did he touch a brahmin.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
द्विजानां स्मार्तवृत्तीनां विद्वेषं च करोति सः ॥शिवशक्तिरतानां च नाभिवादनमाचरेत् ॥ ३ ॥
He hated brahmins who follow the law books. He hated those devoted to Shiva and the Goddess. He never greeted them.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं वयो गते देवि वृद्धे जाते वरानने ॥मरणं तस्य वै जातं ब्राह्मणस्य वरानने ॥ ४ ॥
So his years passed, O Goddess, and he grew old. Then the brahmin died, O lovely one.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
यमदूतैर्महाघोरे नरके पातितस्तदा ॥रौरवे च तदा देवि षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥ ५ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a very fearful hell. It was Raurava, for 60,000 years.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
भुक्त्वा नरककष्टं च पुनर्जातः सरीसृपः ॥मानुषत्वं पुनर्जातः कष्टानि विविधानि च ॥ ६ ॥
After he bore the pain of hell, he was born a reptile. Then he was born a man, with many kinds of trouble.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पुत्रस्य मरणं कान्ते प्रतिवर्षं महाव्यथा ॥पुनः स्त्री काकवन्ध्या स्यात्पूर्वजन्मप्रसङ्गतः ॥ ७ ॥
O beloved, each year a son dies and brings great pain. The wife becomes a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child), because of the past birth.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
धनधान्यसमायुक्तोऽप्येवं दुःखं महद्भवेत् ॥अथ वक्ष्ये महादेवि पूर्वपापस्य निष्कृतिम् ॥ ८ ॥
Even with wealth and grain, great sorrow comes in this way. Now, O Great Goddess, I will tell the cleansing of the earlier wrong.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गङ्गामध्ये प्रदातव्यं पूर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥निष्कत्रयसुवर्णस्य कमलं निर्मितं शुभम् ॥ ९ ॥
To cleanse the earlier wrong, give a fine lotus in the middle of the Ganga. Make it of three nishka (a unit of gold weight) of gold.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
दद्याद्वेदविदे देवि ब्राह्मणाय शुभार्थिने ॥अष्टांशं विभवं देवि ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥ १० ॥
Give it to a brahmin who knows the Veda and wants good. Give one eighth of your wealth to the brahmin.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां दशायुतजपं तथा ॥कूष्माण्डं नारिकेरं च पञ्चरत्नसमन्वितम् ॥ ११ ॥
Do japa (repeating a mantra) a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) times. Use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the Jatavedas (a name of the fire god) hymn. Also a pumpkin and a coconut, set with five jewels.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं कृते भवेदेवि पूर्वपापविशुद्धता ॥पुत्रं चैव लभेद्देवि चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १२ ॥
When this is done, the earlier wrong is cleansed. The person gets a fine son who lives long, O Goddess.
विशाखा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
व्याधयः प्रशमं यान्ति ज्वराः सर्वे तथाविधाः ॥काकवन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १३ ॥
Illnesses calm down, and all such fevers. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a fine son who lives long.
Verse 65.3 says he hated brahmins who follow the law books, and those devoted to Shiva and the Goddess. Verse 65.2 adds that he did not recite the Veda.
Verse 65.9 says to give a gold lotus of three nishka in the middle of the Ganga. Verse 65.10 adds one eighth of the wealth, given to a brahmin who knows the Veda.