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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 79 · A Salt-Maker and His Wife
मूल नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मध्यदेशे विशालाक्षि हिडम्बं नाम वै पुरम् ॥लवणकारोऽवसत्तत्र भीमो गुणविचक्षणः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the middle country, O large-eyed one, there is a city named Hidimba. A salt-maker lived there, Bhima, skilled in good qualities. (Our text is unclear here: the word for the country may read another way in print.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
प्रत्यहं लवणं कृत्वा विक्रयं चाकरोत्सदा ॥
Every day he made salt and sold it. His wife was virtuous, and she bore three sons.
धनधान्यवृषच्छागगोमहिष्यादिकं तथा ॥
Wealth, grain, bulls, goats, cows, buffaloes and the like, much was gathered in the salt-maker's house, dear one.
तस्य ज्येष्ठः सुतो देवि वेश्यासुरततत्परः ॥
His eldest son, O Goddess, was given to prostitutes and love-making. Once, O Goddess, at nightfall, at the salt sea,