Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 7 · Women's Past Deeds
स्त्रीकर्मकथनम्
रौप्यस्यैव कृतं लिङ्गं पलपञ्चदशेन तु ॥पूजयित्वा प्रयत्नेन दद्याद्विप्राय श्रोत्रिणे ॥ ९ ॥
She should make a silver linga (Shiva's sacred stone emblem) of fifteen pala (a unit of weight). She should worship it with care and give it to a learned brahmin.
Classical view, not medical advice.
ततः कन्या तु न भवेच्छुभं पुत्रं प्रसूयते ॥
Then no daughter is born, and she bears a good son. Now a woman who is always unfaithful, though she keeps up her duties,
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…