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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 7 · Women's Past Deeds
स्त्रीकर्मकथनम्
पूर्वजन्मनि या नारी पतिनिन्दां चकार ह ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि न स्त्री पुष्पवर्ती भवेत् ॥ ३ ॥
In a past life a woman spoke ill of her husband, O Goddess. For that sin she never has her monthly periods.
Classical view, not medical advice.
यदा रौप्यस्य वै वृक्षं स्वाङ्गुष्ठपरिमाणकम् ॥
Say she gives a silver tree the size of her thumb, O Goddess, weighing five pala (a unit of weight). She gives it to a Veda scholar, dear one.
तदा पुष्पं भवेद्देवि नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥
Then her periods come. Have no doubt about it. She left her sleeping husband and loved another man. (Our text is unclear here: the word read as…
तेन पापेन भो देवि वन्ध्या नारी प्रजायते ॥
For that sin, O Goddess, she is born a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children). She should make a tree of gold, with fruits and flowers,