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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 68
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers anuradha 1st pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A rich merchant of Kalyana, near Mayapuri, was proud of his wealth.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says he gave nothing out of great greed. The remedy is to give away all he owns, worship the Sun, hear the Harivamsha and do Gayatri japa.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥कल्याणनगरे गौरि मायापुर्याः समीपतः ॥वणिग्जनोऽवसत्तत्र धनाढ्यो धनगर्वितः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: "O Gauri, near Mayapuri, in the city of Kalyana, a merchant lived. He was rich and proud of his wealth."
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क्रयकृत्सर्ववस्तूनां विक्रयं च सदाकरोत् ॥महालोभवशाद्देवि न दत्तं पापिना क्वचित् ॥ २ ॥
He bought and sold all kinds of goods, always. Through great greed, the sinner never gave anything.
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तस्य भार्या विशालाक्षी पुंश्चली कुलटाधमा ॥यमौ पुत्रौ वरारोहे पुंश्चल्यां जज्ञिरे तदा ॥ ३ ॥
His wife was large-eyed but unfaithful, a wanton woman, the worst of unchaste wives. Twin sons were born to this woman, O lovely one.
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एको द्यूतरतः पुत्रो द्वितीयो ब्राह्मणीरतः ॥वैश्येनैव विशालाक्षि धनं च बहु सञ्चितम् ॥ ४ ॥
One son loved gambling. The second loved brahmin women. The merchant gathered much wealth.
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प्रत्यहं भुज्यते छागविक्रयं कुरुते सदा ॥वृद्धे सति महादेवि वैश्यस्य मरणं ह्यभूत् ॥ ५ ॥
He ate every day and always sold goats. When he was old, O Great Goddess, the merchant died.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
यमदूतैस्तदा बद्ध्वा निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥स्वरूपं दर्शयामास तस्मै वैश्याय सूर्यजः ॥ ६ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) bound him and threw him into the ocean of hell. Yama, the Sun's son, showed his own form to that merchant.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नवत्यब्दसहस्राणि घोरे नरकदारुणे ॥महाकष्टं तदा दत्तं कृमिभिर्घोररूपिभिः ॥ ७ ॥
For 90,000 years, in the dreadful hell, worms of fearful shape gave him great pain.
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ततो व्याघ्रस्य वै योनिं काककुक्कुटयोः पुनः ॥मानुषत्वं ततो यातः पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥ ८ ॥
Then he took the birth of a tiger, and again of a crow and a cock. Then he became a man, without son or daughter.
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पुनर्विवाहिता सा तु या पत्नी पूर्वजन्मनि ॥रोगवान् सापि रोगार्ता मृतवत्सा पुनः पुनः ॥ ९ ॥
The wife of his past life was married to him again. He is ill. She too is ill and in pain. She is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young), again and again.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एकापत्या भवेद्दुष्टा न स्यादन्यसुतः प्रिये ॥यदा सर्वस्वदानं वै सूर्यस्याऽऽराधनं तदा ॥ १० ॥
She has only one child. She is at fault, and no other son comes, dear one. Then, when he gives away all he owns and worships Surya (the Sun god),
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
हरिवंशश्रुतेश्चैव दुर्गास्तोत्रजपस्तथा ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं यदा भवेत् ॥ ११ ॥
Have the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna) heard. Have the hymn to Durga recited. Then have 100,000 japa (repeating a mantra) done with the root mantra of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant),
अनुराधा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तदा पुत्रो भवेद्देवि व्याधिनाशो भवेत् ध्रुवम् ॥१२॥
then a son is born, O Goddess, and the illness surely ends.
Verse 68.2 says that through great greed the merchant never gave anything. The book offers giving and worship as the remedy.
Verse 68.10 says to give away all he owns and worship Surya. Verse 68.11 adds the Harivamsha, the hymn to Durga and 100,000 Gayatri japa.