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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 8
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter covers Bharani 1st pada, the first quarter of Bharani. The book tells of Nilakantha, a brahmin of Kakutstha town who sold an old woman's goods and kept the money.
Classical view, not medical advice.
After death he passes through hell and the births of a snake and a donkey. The remedy is a lakh of Sun mantra japa and worship of an earthen linga. Then come homa, a feast for a hundred brahmins and a well, pond and stepwell.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥भरण्याः प्रथमे पादे नीलकण्ठोऽभवद्द्विजः ॥ब्रह्मकर्मपरिभ्रष्टः काकुत्स्थनगरे शुभे ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the first charana (quarter of a star) of Bharani, there was a brahmin named Nilakantha. He had fallen from a brahmin's duties. This was in the good town of Kakutstha.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वैश्येन सह मित्रत्वं क्रय्यं कृत्वा दिने दिने ॥ब्राह्मणी तत्र वृद्धासीत्पतिपुत्रविवर्जिता ॥ २ ॥
He made friends with a merchant and traded with him day after day. An old brahmin woman lived there. She had no husband or son.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तस्या द्रव्यं गृहीतं च विक्रयार्थं द्विजेन तु ॥ततो बहुदिनं यातं तस्या द्रव्यं न दत्तवान् ॥ ३ ॥
The brahmin took her goods to sell them. Much time passed. He did not give her the money.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं बहुतिथे काले तस्य मृत्युरजायत ॥ब्रह्मकर्मपरिभ्रंशान्नरके पतनं प्रिये ॥ ४ ॥
After a long time he died. For falling from a brahmin's duties, dear one, he fell into hell.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि सर्पयोनिरजायत ॥सर्पयोनिफलं भुक्त्वा गर्दभत्वमुपागतः ॥ ५ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born as a snake. After living out the snake birth, he became a donkey.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनः संप्राप्तवान् देवि मध्यदेशे च मानुषम् ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तः पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥ ६ ॥
Again, O Goddess, he got a human birth in the middle country. He had wealth and grain, but no sons or daughters.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो बहुतिथे काले तदा कन्याभवत्प्रिये ॥स्वर्णं पूर्वं हृतं देवि स्वर्णसम्बन्धजा सुता ॥ ७ ॥
After a long time, dear one, a daughter was born. The gold taken earlier, O Goddess, came back as a daughter tied to gold.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततः सा वर्द्धिता कन्या विवाहश्चाभवत् खलु ॥पितृमातृप्रिया नित्यं युवती तु यदाभवत् ॥ ८ ॥
That girl grew up and was married. She was always dear to her father and mother. When she became a young woman,
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तदा सा विधवा जाता मातापित्रोश्च दुःखदा ॥पुनः पुत्रविहीनत्वं प्रायश्चित्तमतः शृणु ॥ ९ ॥
she became a widow and gave grief to her parents. Again there was no son. Hear the prayashchitta (remedy for a past wrong) for this.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सूर्यमन्त्रस्य जाप्येन लक्षमेकं वरानने ॥पार्थिवस्यार्चनं सम्यक् त्र्यम्बकेति ततो जपेत् ॥ १० ॥
Do japa (repeating a mantra) of the Sun mantra (sacred words) 100,000 times, O fair-faced one. Worship the earthen linga (Shiva's sacred stone emblem) well. Then repeat the Tryambaka mantra.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
होमं च कारयेद्धीमान् शतब्राह्मणभोजनम् ॥पायसं शर्करायुक्तं कारयेद्विधिपूर्वकम् ॥ ११ ॥
The wise one should have a homa (fire offering) done and feed a hundred brahmins. He should have rice pudding with sugar made by the rule.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततः कूपतडागौ च वापिकां च महापथे ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशलाभो वरानने ॥ १२ ॥
Then he should make a well, a pond and a stepwell on the great road. When this is done, there is no doubt, the family line is gained, O fair-faced one.
भरणी नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
यदा न क्रियते देवि तदा वंशो न जायते ॥ १३ ॥
When it is not done, O Goddess, no family line is born.
Verse 8.10 gives 100,000 Sun mantra japa and worship of an earthen linga. Verses 8.11 and 8.12 add homa, a feast for brahmins and a well, pond and stepwell.
Verse 8.3 says the brahmin Nilakantha took an old woman's goods to sell and did not give her the money. This is the book's story of a past life.