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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 72
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers jyeshtha 1st pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A brahmin of Maharashtra had a pond dug and found treasure there.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He never gave his brother's share. The remedy is holy works, repaired wells, a gold image, Gayatri japa and a Prayaga bath.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥ब्राह्मणो न्यवसच्चैको महाराष्ट्रपुरे शुभे ॥स वेदपाठतत्त्वज्ञो वेदपाठं सदाऽकरोत् ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: "A brahmin lived in a fair city of Maharashtra. He knew the heart of the Veda and always recited it."
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तडागं खानयामास तत्र द्रव्यं च लब्धवान्॥द्रव्यस्यार्थे तदा देवि विग्रहो भ्रातरं प्रति ॥ २ ॥
He had a pond dug, and he found treasure there. Over the treasure there was a quarrel with his brother.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भ्रात्रा तस्य महादेवि द्रव्यार्थं भक्षितं विषम् ॥बहुकाले तदा देवि व्ययं सर्वं धनं कृतम् ॥ ३ ॥
For the money, O Great Goddess, his brother ate poison. After a long time he spent all the wealth.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततश्च पञ्चतां यातो ब्राह्मणश्च सुरेश्वरि ॥यमदूतैर्महाघोरैर्नरके देवि कर्दमे ॥ ४ ॥
Then the brahmin died, O Goddess of gods. The fearful messengers of Yama (the god of death) took him to a hell of mud, O Goddess.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि निक्षिप्तश्च यमाज्ञया ॥भुक्त्वा नरकजं दुःखं काकयोनिरभूत्पुनः ॥ ५ ॥
He was thrown there for 60,000 years at the order of Yama (the god of death). After bearing the pain of hell, he became a crow again.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनर्मानुषयोनिं च पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि भ्रात्रंशं नैव दत्तवान् ॥ ६ ॥
He was born a man again, without sons and daughters. In his past life, O Goddess, he never gave his brother's share.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तेन पापेन भो देवि महारोगसमुद्भवः ॥अस्य शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु त्वं गिरिजे वरे ॥ ७ ॥
For that wrong, a great illness arose. I will tell the remedy for it. Listen, O noble daughter of the mountain.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गृहवित्ताष्टमैर्भागैः पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥वापीकूपतडागादिजीर्णोद्धारं प्रयत्नतः ॥ ८ ॥
Spend one eighth of the house wealth on holy works. Carefully repair old step-wells, wells, ponds and the like.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रतिमां कारयेद्देवि स्वर्णे पलदशस्य तु ॥भ्रातुश्चित्रं तदा देवि पूजयित्वा यथाविधि ॥ ९ ॥
Have a gold image made, of 10 pala (a unit of weight), O Goddess. It is the likeness of the brother. Worship it by the rule. (Our text is unclear here: one mark in the word for gold can be read two ways.)
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गन्धधूपादिभिर्देवि भूषणैर्विविधैरपि ॥गायत्रीलक्षजाप्येन दशांशहवनेन तु ॥ १० ॥
Offer sandalwood paste, incense and many kinds of ornaments, O Goddess. Do 100,000 japa (repeating a mantra) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Add a homa (fire offering) of one tenth that number.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रयागे मकरे स्नानं सर्वपापक्षयो भवेत् ॥ब्राह्मणाय ततो दद्याद्गां च दद्यात्पयस्विनीम् ॥ ११ ॥
Bathe at Prayaga in the month of Makara (when the Sun is in Capricorn), and all wrong is destroyed. Then give a milk cow to a brahmin.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भूमिं वृत्तिकरीं दद्यात् पुत्रपौत्रानुयायिनीम् ॥अश्वदानं ततो दद्यात् ब्राह्मणान् भोजयेत्ततः ॥१२॥
Give land that gives a living, to pass to sons and grandsons. Then give a horse, and feed brahmins.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं कृते वरारोहे पुत्रो भवति नान्यथा ॥व्याधिस्तस्य निवर्तेत काकबन्ध्या लभेत्सुतम् ॥१३॥
When this is done, O lovely one, a son is born, not otherwise. His illness will turn away. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १४ ॥
A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a fine son who lives long.
Verse 72.2 says a quarrel with his brother arose over the treasure. Verse 72.6 says that in his past life he never gave his brother's share.
Verse 72.8 says to spend one eighth of the house wealth on holy works and repair old wells and ponds. Verse 72.10 adds 100,000 japa of the Gayatri.