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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 78
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for mula 3rd pada. In the story, a warrior named Bhavasena loves gambling and gathers wealth by theft.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says he was once a giver of lamps, and that this brought him wealth in a later birth. Shiva then gives the remedy: holy works, wells and ponds along roads, and chanting. The book says the remedy cleanses the old sin.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥शरय्वाश्चोत्तरे कूले मङ्गलं नाम वै पुरम् ॥तत्र क्षत्र्यवसच्चैको मद्यमांसस्य भोगकृत् ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: On the north bank of the Sarayu is a city named Mangala. A kshatriya (warrior class) lived there, who enjoyed liquor and meat. (Our text is unclear here: the printing of these words is poor.)
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
भावसेनश्च नाम्ना स तस्य पत्नी मनोहरा ॥वेश्याद्यूतरतश्चासौ लुब्धश्चोरेषु सम्मतः ॥ २ ॥
His name was Bhavasena, and his wife was lovely. He loved prostitutes and gambling. He was greedy and liked by thieves.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
प्रत्यहं चौरकर्मेण धनसंचयसंमुखः ॥ततो बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥ ३ ॥
Every day he was set on gathering wealth by theft. After much time passed, he died.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सर्पेणापि महादेवि यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥रौरवे नरके क्षिप्तः षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥ ४ ॥
It was by a snake, O great Goddess. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him, on Yama's command, into the Raurava hell. It was for sixty thousand years.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निर्गतो देवि व्याघ्रयोनिं ततोऽलभत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो लेभे कुले महति पूजिते ॥ ५ ॥
He came out of hell, O Goddess, and got a tiger's birth. Then he got human birth in a great and honoured family.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि दीपदानं कृतं यतः ॥तत्फलेन महादेवि धनाढ्यत्वमजायत ॥ ६ ॥
In a past birth, O Goddess, he gave lamps. By the fruit of that, O Goddess, he became rich.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मद्यपानफलाद्देवि नानाज्वरसमुद्भवः ॥वेश्यासुरतसंयुक्तो यतोऽभूत्पूर्वजन्मनि ॥ ७ ॥
From the fruit of drinking liquor came many fevers, O Goddess. In the past birth he had been given to prostitutes and love-making.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तेन पापेन भो देवि पुत्राणां मरणं खलु ॥मनस्युद्वेगता नित्यं जातो द्यूतरतः पुरा ॥ ८ ॥
By that sin, O Goddess, his sons die. His mind is always troubled, for in the past he loved gambling.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अस्य शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि सर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ ९ ॥
I will tell the remedy for him, to free him from all sin. Let him do holy works with a sixth of his house wealth.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
वापीकूपतडागांश्च पथि मध्ये च कारयेत् ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं वरानने ॥ १० ॥
Let him build step-wells, wells and ponds along the roads. Let him do one lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra), O fair-faced one. Let him use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) as the root mantra (sacred words).
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशांशं हवनं तद्वत्तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥दशवर्णां ततो दद्याद्वृषभेण समन्विताम् ॥ ११ ॥
Likewise homa (fire offering) with a tenth. Then tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling). Then let him give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), together with a bull.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं पापविशुद्धिः स्यान्नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥पुत्रश्च जायते देवि वन्ध्यात्वं च प्रणश्यति ॥१२॥
When this is done, he is cleansed of sin, and there is no need to doubt. A son is born, O Goddess, and the state of being a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) ends.
मूल नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मृतवत्सा लभेत्पुत्रं चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥रोगा विनाशमायान्ति व्याधयश्च तथा शिवे ॥१३॥
A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a son, long-lived and the best. Illnesses and diseases are destroyed, O Goddess.
Verse 78.6 says that in a past birth he gave lamps, and by the fruit of that he became rich.
Verse 78.10 asks for step-wells, wells and ponds along the roads.