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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 74
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter covers jyeshtha 3rd pada, the star quarter and the past deed the book links to it. A betel seller of Vijapura gathered much wealth and then wronged his own family.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says a past gift of a dashavarna brought him wealth. The remedy is a well, a restored pond, a full-moon vrata, a black cow and bull and a gold image.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥वीजापुरमिति ख्यातं पुरं देवि मनोहरम् ॥न्यवसन् बहवो वर्णा ब्राह्मणाश्च वणिग्जनाः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: There is a lovely city called Vijapura, O Goddess. Many classes of people lived there, brahmins and traders.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तन्मध्ये शूद्र एको हि ताम्बूलं च करोति सः ॥सुरापी च स वै नित्यं ताम्बूलविक्रयी शिवे ॥ २ ॥
Among them was one shudra (servant class), a seller of betel rolls. He always drank liquor, O Goddess.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तस्य पुत्रद्वयं जातं धनं च बहु संचितम् ॥ततस्तु दैवयोगेन महाधनमदेन च ॥ ३ ॥
Two sons were born to him, and he gathered much wealth. Then came the turn of fate and the pride of great wealth.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ज्येष्ठपुत्रस्य हननं कृतं तेन वरानने ॥स्वभार्यार्थे तदानीता पत्नी तस्य तु तेन हि ॥ ४ ॥
He killed his elder son, O fair-faced one. Then he brought his son's wife to be his own wife.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्राभ्यां चाभवद्वैरं पत्न्या सह विशेषतः ॥प्रत्यहं भजते सोऽपि पुत्रपत्नीं तथाऽधमः ॥ ५ ॥
Enmity arose with his two sons, and most of all with his wife. Every day that low man also lay with his son's wife.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं बहुदिने जाते तस्य मृत्युरभूच्छिवे ॥ततो वै नरके घोरे यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥ ६ ॥
Many days passed like this, and he died, O Goddess. Then the messengers of Yama (the god of death), on Yama's command,
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
निक्षिप्तो वै ततो देवि षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥कृमिभिर्घोरवक्त्रैश्च भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ७ ॥
threw him into a terrible hell for sixty thousand years, O Goddess. He suffered hell's torment, with worms of fearful mouths.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निर्गतो देवि शुनो योनिं ततोऽलभत् ॥ततो वृषभयोनिं च मानुषत्वं ततो गतः ॥ ८ ॥
He came out of hell, O Goddess, and got a dog's birth. Then a bull's birth. Then he reached human birth.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि दशवर्णां ददौ बहु ॥तत्फलेनेह भो देवि धनधान्ययुतस्तदा ॥ ९ ॥
In a past birth, O Goddess, he gave a great deal of dashavarna (a gift of ten colours). By that fruit, O Goddess, he now has wealth and grain.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्रपत्न्यां च भोगार्थं पुत्रस्यैव वधः कृतः ॥तत्पापफलतो देवि ह्यपुत्रश्च ज्वरी तथा ॥ १० ॥
He killed his son to enjoy the son's wife. By the fruit of that sin, O Goddess, he has no son and has fever.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
व्याधिश्च बहुधा तस्य चांगे च महती तथा ॥महाचिन्तां समापन्नो ह्यतः शान्तिं शृणु प्रिये ॥११॥
He has many kinds of illness, and a great one in his body. He has fallen into great worry. So hear the remedy, dear one.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
स्ववित्तस्य तृतीयांशं प्रगृह्य हरवल्लभे ॥कूपं च खनयेत्कान्ते तडागं जीर्णमुद्धरेत् ॥ १२ ॥
Let him take a third of his own wealth, O beloved of Shiva. Let him dig a well, dear one. Let him restore an old pond.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पौर्णमासीव्रतं देवि सकलत्रः समाचरेत् ॥शिवस्य पूजनं लक्षं ब्राह्मणेभ्यश्च कारयेत् ॥ १३ ॥
With his wife, let him keep the full-moon vrata (vow of fasting and worship), O Goddess. Let him have Shiva worshipped through brahmins, 100,000 times.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कृष्णां च गां च वृषभं ब्राह्मणाय प्रदापयेत् ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण तथा लक्षप्रमाणतः ॥ १४ ॥
Let him give a black cow and a bull to a brahmin. Let him use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) as the root mantra (sacred words), 100,000 times.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
जपं वै कारयेत्तत्र हवनं तद्दशांशतः ॥मार्जनं तर्पणं देवि दशांशं स च कारयेत् ॥ १५ ॥
Let him have the japa (repeating a mantra) done there, and homa (fire offering) with a tenth of it. Let him also have marjana (sprinkling) done, a tenth part, O Goddess. Tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) likewise.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्रस्य प्रतिमां तद्वत्स्वर्णवस्त्रसमन्विताम् ॥पलपञ्चदशस्यैव निर्मितां रत्नभूषिताम् ॥ १६ ॥
Likewise, an image of the son. Let it be made with gold and cloth, of fifteen pala (a unit of weight), and set with jewels.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूजां कृत्वा विधानेन ब्राह्मणाय प्रदापयेत् ॥एवं कृते न संदेहः शीघ्रं पुत्रमवाप्नुयात् ॥ १७ ॥
After worship by the rule, let him give it to a brahmin. When this is done, there is no doubt, he will soon get a son.
ज्येष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
व्याधिश्च प्रशमं यायात् काकबन्ध्या लभेत्सुतम् ॥मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १८ ॥
Illness will calm down. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) will get a son. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) will get a son, long-lived and the best.
Verse 74.12 says to take a third of his own wealth, dig a well and restore an old pond. Verse 74.13 adds a full-moon vrata with his wife.
Verse 74.9 says that in a past birth he gave a great deal of dashavarna. By that fruit he now has wealth and grain.