Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 69 · A Carpenter Who Kept an Ascetic's Money
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.
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.
पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापं नश्यत्येवं कृते प्रिये ॥
When this is done, dear one, the wrong of past lives is destroyed. All illness goes, and a son is sure to come.