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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 70
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers anuradha 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A brahmin of Sukarma cut himself off from a brahmin's duties and sold all kinds of goods.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book also tells of harm done to a village. The remedy is a gift, a bath at Prayaga, three kinds of japa, a feast and the Harivamsha.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥सुकर्मनगरं ख्यातं सौराष्ट्रविषये शुभे ॥तत्रातिष्ठत्खलो विप्रो ब्रह्मकर्मविवर्जितः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: "The city of Sukarma is famed in the fair land of Saurashtra. A wicked brahmin lived there, cut off from a brahmin's duties."
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
विक्रेता सर्ववस्तूनां गोवाजिकारिणां तथा ॥राजमृत्युं समालोक्य ग्रामदाहस्तथा कृतः ॥ २ ॥
He sold all goods, and cows, horses and elephants too. When he saw that the king had died, he set the village on fire.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणा बहवस्तत्र ब्राह्मण्यश्च तथा शिवे ॥मृता ग्रामस्य वै दाहे बह्व्यो गावो मृताः खलु ॥३॥
Many brahmins and brahmin women died there, O Shiva's wife, in the burning of the village. Many cows also died.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ततो बहुतिथे काले मृतः सोऽपि द्विजाधमः ॥ततस्तु यमदूतेन नरके घोरकर्दमे ॥ ४ ॥
After a long time that lowest of brahmins died too. Then a messenger of Yama (the god of death) took him to a hell of dreadful mud.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यमाज्ञया च निक्षिप्तः कष्टं भुक्तं मुहुर्मुहुः ॥नरकान्निर्गतो देवि गजयोनिं ततोऽलभत् ॥ ५ ॥
He was thrown there at the order of Yama (the god of death). He bore pain again and again. Leaving hell, O Goddess, he took an elephant's birth.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कच्छपत्वं ततो यातः काकयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो यातः कुले महति शोभने ॥ ६ ॥
Then he became a tortoise, and then a crow. Then he became a man, in a great and fine family.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सर्वसंपत्तिसंयुक्तो वंशस्तस्य न जायते ॥बहुकन्यासमायुक्तो रोगयुक्तो भवेन्नरः ॥७॥
He has every kind of riches, but no line of descendants is born. He has many daughters, and the man is sick.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
भार्या तस्य ज्वरग्रस्ता मासे वर्षे भवेज्ज्वरः ॥अतः शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि यतः खलु सुखी भवेत् ॥८॥
His wife is gripped by fever, and fever comes every month and every year. So I will tell the remedy by which he will be happy.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
चतुर्भागं गृहद्रव्यं ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥प्रयागे मकरे मासि पत्न्या सह वरानने ॥ ९ ॥
Give one quarter of the house wealth to a brahmin. Bathe at Prayaga in the month of Makara (when the Sun is in Capricorn), with his wife, O fair-faced one.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
स्नानं तु नियतः कुर्यात्सप्ताहं च ततः शिवे ॥हेमदानं ततः कुर्याद्भूमिदानं च पार्वति ॥ १० ॥
Bathe there with discipline for seven days, O Shiva's wife. Then give gold and give land, O Parvati.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां त्र्यम्बकेण तदा जपम् ॥दशायुतप्रमाणेन हवनं मार्जनं तथा ॥ ११॥
Then do japa (repeating a mantra) with three: the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant), and the Jatavedas (a name of the fire god) hymn. The third is the Tryambaka hymn to Shiva. Do it a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) times. Do homa (fire offering) and marjana (sprinkling) the same way.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणान् भोजयेद्भक्त्या पक्वान्नैः पायसेन च ॥विप्रेभ्यो दक्षिणां दद्याद्वस्त्ररत्नविभूषिताम् ॥ १२ ॥
Feed brahmins with devotion with cooked food and rice pudding. Give the brahmins a fee, with cloth and jewels.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशवर्णां ततो दद्याद्धरिवंशश्रुतिस्तथा ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे शीघ्रं पुत्रमवाप्नुयात् ॥ १३ ॥
Then give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours). Have the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna) heard. When this is done, O lovely one, a son is soon gained.
अनुराधा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
काकबन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं पुनर्देवि न संशयः ॥रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति मृतवत्सा लभेत् सुतम् ॥१४॥
A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son again, O Goddess, no doubt. All illness goes. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a son.
Verse 70.9 says to give one quarter of the house wealth to a brahmin and bathe at Prayaga in Makara. Verse 70.11 adds a hundred thousand japa of three hymns.
Verse 70.12 says to feed brahmins with devotion with cooked food and rice pudding. It also says to give them a fee, with cloth and jewels.