Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 7 · Women's Past Deeds
स्त्रीकर्मकथनम्
ततः कन्या तु न भवेच्छुभं पुत्रं प्रसूयते ॥सततं वै यदा नारी कुलटा धर्मचारिणी ॥ १० ॥
Then no daughter is born, and she bears a good son. Now a woman who is always unfaithful, though she keeps up her duties,
Classical view, not medical advice.
तेन कर्मविपाकेन नारीगर्भं विनश्यति ॥
by that ripening of her deed, loses the child in her womb. Then she should worship the God who holds the conch, discus and mace.
प्रयागे मकरे स्नानं पतिना तु सहाचरेत् ॥
She should bathe at Prayaga in the Makara month (the Sun in Capricorn), together with her husband. A bull with golden horns, silver hooves and a…
दद्यात्सदक्षिणं देवि वृषभं विदुषे तथा ॥
she should give, O Goddess, with the priest's fee, to a learned man. A woman who left her weak husband and went with another,