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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 69
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter covers anuradha 2nd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A carpenter of Magadha took 105 pala of money from an ascetic and did not give it back.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book links this debt to troubles with a son in a later birth. The remedy is holy works, Akrishnena japa, a gold Sun on a lotus and a Sunday fast.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मगधे वै शुभे देशे काष्ठकारोऽवसत् प्रिये ॥पुत्रपौत्रसमायुक्तो धनाढ्यो गुणवानपि ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: "In the fair land of Magadha lived a carpenter, dear one. He had sons and grandsons, was rich and full of good qualities."
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
यदा चार्द्धं वयो यातं दरिद्रत्वं तदाऽगमत् ॥गृहीतं यतिनो द्रव्यं शतपञ्चपलं तथा ॥ २ ॥
When half his life had gone, poverty came. He had taken a hundred and five pala (a unit of weight) of money from an ascetic.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
व्ययं कृत्वा तदा तेन न दत्तं यतिने शिवे ॥ततस्तस्य ह्यभून्मृत्युः काष्ठकारस्य मागधे ॥ ३ ॥
He spent it and did not give it back to the ascetic, O Shiva's wife. Then the carpenter of Magadha died.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
द्वे दत्त्वा कपिले गावौ स्वर्णरौप्यविभूषिते ॥पुत्रेणापि कृतं श्राद्धं शास्त्ररीत्या गयादिकम् ॥ ४ ॥
Two tawny cows adorned with gold and silver were given. His son also did the shraddha (rite for the dead ancestors). He did it at Gaya and other places, by the rule.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
यक्षलोकं तदा यातो वर्षं शतसहस्रकम् ॥पुनः पुण्यक्षये जाते कपियोनिं ततोऽलभत् ॥ ५ ॥
He went to the world of the Yakshas (nature spirits) for a hundred thousand years. When his merit ran out, he got a monkey's birth.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ऋक्षस्यैव पुनर्योनिं मानुषत्वं ततोऽगमत् ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो गुणज्ञोऽप्यतिसुन्दरः ॥ ६ ॥
Then he was born a bear. Then he became a man, rich in wealth and grain, wise in qualities and very handsome.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि काष्ठच्छेदः कृतः सदा ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि शरीरे महती व्यथा ॥ ७ ॥
In his past life, O Goddess, he cut wood all the time. For that wrong he has great pain in the body.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
यतिद्रव्यं गृहीतं च न दत्तं यतिने यतः ॥तेन जातः सुतो देवि ऋणसम्बन्धकारणात् ॥ ८ ॥
He took the ascetic's money and did not give it back. For that reason a son was born to him, through the tie of debt.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
द्यूतवेश्यारतो नित्यं पितृमात्रोर्विरोधकृत् ॥युवरूपो यदा जातस्तदा मृत्युर्भवेद् ध्रुवम् ॥ ९ ॥
The son always loves gambling and prostitutes, and quarrels with his father and mother. When he becomes a young man, death surely comes.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पुनः पुत्रस्य संदेहः काकबन्ध्यत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥पत्नी तस्य वरारोहे मृतवत्सा पुनः पुनः ॥ १० ॥
Then there is doubt about another son. The woman would become a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). His wife is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young), again and again.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
अस्य शांतिमहं वक्ष्ये शृणु देवि प्रयत्नतः ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ ११ ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Listen with care, O Goddess. Spend one eighth of the house wealth on holy works.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
सूर्यमन्त्रस्य वै जाप्यं वैदिकस्य वरानने ॥आकृष्णेति महामन्त्रः सर्वव्याधिविनाशनः ॥ १२ ॥
Do japa (repeating a mantra) of the Sun's Vedic mantra, O fair-faced one. The great mantra "Akrishnena" (a hymn to the Sun) destroys all illness.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
सर्वकामप्रदो देवि मोक्षदो मुक्तिकारणम् ॥सूर्यदेवस्य यो भक्तिं कुरुते नियतो नरः ॥ १३ ॥
It gives every wish, O Goddess. It gives freedom and is the cause of liberation. The man who keeps firm devotion to Surya (the Sun god)
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
न किञ्चिद्दुर्लभं तस्य पुत्रश्चैव धनं बहु ॥ममातीव प्रियो नित्यं सूर्यदेवे ह्युपासिते ॥ १४ ॥
finds nothing hard to get: a son and much wealth. He is always very dear to me, when Surya (the Sun god) is worshiped.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
मद्गुणास्तं हि रक्षन्ति यतश्च मत्कला रविः ॥कमलं सूज्ज्वलं देवि वंशपात्रे सुशोभनम् ॥ १५ ॥
My qualities guard him, since the Sun is a part of me. Place a bright and lovely lotus in a bamboo dish.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
तस्योपरि सुवर्णस्य सूर्यं रत्नविभूषितम् ॥पलपञ्चमितं देवि मन्त्रेणानेन पूजयेत् ॥ १६ ॥
On it place a gold Sun, adorned with jewels, of five pala (a unit of weight). Worship it with this mantra (sacred words).
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ॐ नमः सूर्याय देवाय भद्राय भद्ररूपिणे ॥पूर्वजन्मकृतं सर्वं मम पापं व्यपोहतु ॥ १७ ॥
"Om namah suryaya devaya bhadraya bhadrarupine. Purvajanmakritam sarvam mama papam vyapohatu." Om, salutation to Surya the Sun god, the kind one of kind form. May he wipe away all my wrong done in past lives.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
प्रतिमां पात्रसंयुक्तां ब्राह्मणाय च दापयेत् ॥ततो गां कपिलां शुभ्रां सवत्सां स्वर्णभूषिताम् ॥१८॥
Have the image with its dish given to a brahmin. Then give a bright tawny cow with her calf, adorned with gold,
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ब्राह्मणाय ततो दद्यात् पट्टवस्त्रेण संयुताम् ॥सप्तमी रविसंयुक्तोपोष्टव्याङ्गनया सह ॥ १९ ॥
to the brahmin, with a silk cloth. Keep a fast on the seventh lunar day when it falls on Sunday, together with one's wife.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापं नश्यत्येवं कृते प्रिये ॥रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति पुत्रलाभो भवेद् ध्रुवम् ॥२०॥
When this is done, dear one, the wrong of past lives is destroyed. All illness goes, and a son is sure to come.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
काकबन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं मृतवत्सा च पुत्रिणी ॥ २१ ॥
A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) becomes the mother of a living son.
Verse 69.2 and Verse 69.8 say the carpenter took an ascetic's money and did not give it back.
Verse 69.11 says to spend one eighth of the house wealth on holy works. Verse 69.12 adds Akrishnena japa, and Verse 69.16 a gold Sun of five pala on a lotus.