Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 7 · Women's Past Deeds
स्त्रीकर्मकथनम्
दद्याद्विप्राय विदुषे तदा सप्तफलं शुभे ॥कन्यकां कलहाद्दुष्टा हन्ति नारी यदा हठात् ॥ २८ ॥
she should give to a learned brahmin, and then seven fruits, O gentle one. When a wicked woman, in a quarrel, kills a young girl by force,
Classical view, not medical advice.
तदा कुष्ठं भवेद्देवि जन्मजन्म दरिद्रता ॥
then kushtha (a skin disease) comes, O Goddess, and poverty in birth after birth. O beloved, she should always worship the Sun and keep the woman's…
मासे मासे शनौ वारे वृक्षे विष्णुस्वरूपिणि ॥
Every month, on a Saturday, she should worship by the rule the tree that has Vishnu's form. Her past sin is cleansed.
श्वश्रूं च श्वशुरं चैव नित्यं क्रूरवचो वदेत् ॥
A woman always speaks cruel words to her mother-in-law and father-in-law. For that sin, O Goddess, she gets white patches on her body.