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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 76
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for mula 1st pada. In the story, a brahmin leaves a hundred pala of gold with a clerk in Ayodhya.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The brahmin goes to Varanasi and passes away there, and the clerk uses up the gold. The book says the clerk and his wife are born again after a long stay in heaven. Shiva then gives the remedy, built on gifts, chanting and a gold image of the brahmin.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥अयोध्यानगरे देवि कायस्थोऽवसद्द्विजे ॥रामदास इति ख्यातस्तस्य भार्या तु देविका ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the city of Ayodhya, O Goddess, a kayastha (clerk caste) lived among brahmins. He was known as Ramadasa, and his wife was Devika.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
विष्णुभक्तिरतो नित्यं ब्राह्मणस्य च सेवकः ॥भार्या पतिव्रता तस्य पतिसेवासु तत्परा ॥ २ ॥
He was always devoted to Vishnu and served brahmins. His wife was faithful, and keen in serving her husband.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भाग्यवान् सर्ववस्तूनां विक्रेता गजवाजिनाम् ॥तस्य सखाऽभवद्विप्रो ब्राह्मणो वेदपारगः ॥ ३ ॥
He was lucky, and sold all kinds of goods, elephants and horses. A brahmin who knew the Vedas fully became his friend.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
आगतो वै गृहे तस्य प्रेम्णा मित्रस्य भामिनि ॥चातुर्मास्ये स्थितस्तत्र स्वर्णं शतपलं तदा ॥ ४ ॥
That brahmin came to his friend's house with love, O lady. He stayed there through the four months of the rains, with a hundred pala (a unit of weight) of gold.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
कायस्थस्य गृहे तत्तु स्थापितं ब्राह्मणेन वै ॥वाराणस्यां गतो देवि स्नानार्थं स द्विजोत्तमः ॥ ५ ॥
The brahmin left that gold in the clerk's house. Then that best of brahmins went to Varanasi to bathe, O Goddess.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
शरीरं त्यक्तवाँस्तत्र ब्रह्मचारी द्विजस्तदा ॥ततो बहुगते काले कायस्थस्य दरिद्रता ॥ ६ ॥
There that brahmin, a celibate student, left his body. After much time, the scribe became poor.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तद्धनं ब्राह्मणस्यैव भुक्तं तेन वरानने ॥कालव्यालस्य कवलः कायस्थः कामिनीयुतः ॥७॥
O fair-faced one, he used up that brahmin's wealth. The clerk and his wife became a morsel for the snake of Time.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
अयोध्यायामभूद्देवि तयोः स्वर्गो ह्यजायत ॥नवत्यब्दसहस्राणि ब्रह्मलोके वरानने ॥ ८ ॥
This happened in Ayodhya, O Goddess, and they went to heaven. They lived ninety thousand years in the world of Brahma, O fair-faced one.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भुक्तं सौख्यमनेकं तु देवानामपि दुर्लभम् ॥ततः पुण्यक्षये जाते मर्त्यलोके सुरेश्वरि ॥ ९ ॥
They enjoyed much happiness, hard even for gods to get. Then their merit ran out, and they came to the world of mortals, O Goddess.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तत्पापेनाऽभवद्देवि कन्यापुत्रप्ररोधनम् ॥अस्य पापस्य वै शान्ति शृणु त्वं परमेश्वरि ॥ १० ॥
From that sin came the blocking of daughters and sons, O Goddess. Hear, O Supreme Goddess, the remedy for this sin.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रायश्चित्तं सुरश्रेष्ठे पूर्वजन्मसमुद्भवम् ॥गृहवित्तषडंशेन ततो दानं प्रकल्पयेत् ॥ ११ ॥
The prayashchitta (remedy for a past wrong) for the deed of a past birth, O best of goddesses: let him then plan gifts with a sixth of his house wealth.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गायत्रीत्र्यम्बकाभ्यां च जातवेदेन चानघे ॥जपं वै कारयेत्कान्ते प्रतिमन्त्रं दशायुतम् ॥ १२ ॥
Let him use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the Tryambaka mantra (sacred words), O faultless one. Also the mantra to Jatavedas, a name of the fire god. Let him have japa (repeating a mantra) done, dear one. Let it be a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) for each mantra.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो होमं दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥पलैर्दशमितैर्हेमैर्ब्राह्मणस्य तदाकृतिम् ॥ १३ ॥
Then homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Then tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling). Then an image of the brahmin in gold, of ten pala (a unit of weight).
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पूजयित्वा यथान्यायं ब्राह्मणाय ततो ददेत् ॥ततो गां कपिलां दद्यात् स्वर्णवस्त्रविभूषिताम् ॥१४॥
After worshipping it by the rule, let him give it to a brahmin. Then let him give a tawny cow, adorned with gold and cloth.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रतिवर्षं ततो देवि दशवर्णां ददेत्पुनः ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशे ह्यस्य भवेत्खलु ॥ १५ ॥
Every year after that, O Goddess, let him give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours) again. When this is done, there is no doubt that there will be offspring in his family.
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
रोगः शरीरजन्यो यस्तस्य नाशः प्रजायते ॥काकवन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं मृतवत्सा ततः प्रिये ॥ १६ ॥
Illness born of the body is destroyed. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) will get a son. Then a mritavatsa (one whose children die young), dear one,
मूल नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
लभेत सुसुतं चैव नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १७ ॥
will get a good son. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 76.7 says the clerk used up the wealth the brahmin had left with him.
Verse 76.14 says that after worship the image is given to a brahmin, and then a tawny cow adorned with gold and cloth is given.