Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 69 · A Carpenter Who Kept an Ascetic's Money
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
प्रतिमां पात्रसंयुक्तां ब्राह्मणाय च दापयेत् ॥
Have the image with its dish given to a brahmin. Then give a bright tawny cow with her calf, adorned with gold,
ब्राह्मणाय ततो दद्यात् पट्टवस्त्रेण संयुताम् ॥
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.
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.