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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 80
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for purva ashadha 1st pada. In the story, a learned brahmin in Ayodhya wrongs the wife of his sister's son and uses his wealth.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says that sin done at Ayodhya sticks fast, unlike sin done elsewhere. Shiva then gives the remedy: holy works, chanting, old wells restored and sixty trees planted. A Sunday vow and gifts of gold and a bed complete the rite.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥अयोध्यायां महादेवि वसिष्ठस्यैव चाश्रमे ॥श्रीधनेश्वरशर्मेति ब्राह्मणो न्यवसत्प्रिये ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In Ayodhya, O great Goddess, in the hermitage of Vasishtha, there lived a brahmin, Shri Dhaneshvara Sharma, dear one.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
स पण्डितो गुणज्ञश्च धनी मानी विचक्षणः॥स्त्री च पतिव्रता तस्य पतिसेवासु तत्परा ॥ २ ॥
He was learned, knew good qualities, and was rich, proud and clever. His wife was faithful, and keen in serving her husband.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुत्रद्वयं तथा जातं विद्यावृत्तिर्बभूव सः ॥भागिनेयस्ततो देवि तद्धनेश्वरशर्मणः ॥ ३ ॥
Two sons were born, and he lived by his learning. Then, O Goddess, his sister's son came to Dhaneshvara Sharma.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तत्र वासार्थमायातः सपत्नीको वरानने ॥तीर्थयात्राप्रसङ्गेन गृहे तस्यावसद्द्विजः ॥ ४ ॥
He came to live there with his wife, O fair-faced one. On the occasion of a pilgrimage, the brahmin stayed in his house.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मासमेकं स्थितस्तत्र भागिनेयस्ततो मृतः ॥दष्टः सर्पेण देवेशि कालपाशावृतो द्विजः ॥ ५ ॥
The sister's son stayed there one month, and then he died. O Goddess, the brahmin was bitten by a snake, wrapped in the noose of Time.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वर्षमात्रे ततो जाते भागिनेयस्य या वधूः ॥धनेश्वरे महाप्रीतिमकरोत्सा मम प्रिये ॥ ६ ॥
A year after that, the young wife of the sister's son, O beloved, felt great love for Dhaneshvara.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुत्राणां मरणं देवि जातं तस्याघरूपिणः ॥गृहे स्वर्णं च रौप्यं च सर्वं तस्यै न्यवेदयत् ॥ ७ ॥
The sons of that sinful man died, O Goddess. He handed over to her all the gold and silver in the house.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो बहुगते काले तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥यमदूतैर्महाघोरे नरके पातितः शिवे ॥ ८ ॥
After much time passed, he died. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a terrible hell, O Goddess.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
यमाज्ञया वरारोहे षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥अन्यत्रापि कृतं पापं प्रयागे च विनश्यति ॥ ९ ॥
By the command of Yama (the god of death), O fair one, it was for sixty thousand years. Sin done elsewhere is destroyed at Prayaga.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रयागे यत्कृतं पापं रामपुर्यां विनश्यति ॥अयोध्यायां कृतं पापं वज्रलेपो भविष्यति ॥ १० ॥
Sin done at Prayaga is destroyed at Ramapuri (Rama's city). Sin done at Ayodhya will stick fast, like hard plaster that never comes off.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि वकयोनावजायत ॥पुनर्दर्दुरयोनिं वै काकयोनिं ततोऽगमत् ॥ ११ ॥
He came out of hell, O Goddess, and was born a crane. Then he went to a frog's birth, and then a crow's.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पुनर्मानुषयोन्यां वै धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥जातः पुण्यतमे देशे देवगन्धर्वसेविते ॥ १२ ॥
Then he was born in human birth, with wealth and grain. It was in a very holy country, served by gods and gandharvas (heavenly singers).
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सर्वविद्यासु विख्यातो गुणज्ञो रूपवांस्तथा ॥पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि भागिनेयवधूं प्रति ॥ १३ ॥
He is famed in all learning, knows good qualities, and is handsome. In the past birth, O Goddess, toward his sister's son's wife,
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
संभोगं कृतवान् विप्रः कुक्षिपीडा ततः परम् ॥वंशच्छेदो विशालाक्षि कन्या वै बहवस्तथा ॥ १४ ॥
the brahmin did love-making. After that came pain in the belly. His family line is cut off, O large-eyed one, and many daughters are born.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भागिनेयस्य वै द्रव्यं भुक्तं पूर्वमनेन वै ॥शरीरे बहुधा पीडा परस्त्रीगमनादनु ॥ १५ ॥
He had earlier eaten the wealth of his sister's son. There is much pain in the body, after going to another man's wife.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
अस्य शान्ति प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु त्वं मम वल्लभे ॥गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ १६ ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Hear it, my beloved. Let him do holy works with a sixth of his house wealth.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां जपं वै कारयेत्ततः ॥दशांशं हवनं कृत्वा तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥ १७ ॥
Then let him have japa (repeating a mantra) done. Use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the mantra (sacred words) to Jatavedas, a name of the fire god. Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth. Then tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and marjana (sprinkling).
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
जीर्णोद्धारं वरारोहे कूपं चैव तडागकम् ॥तद्वदेव च वै कुर्यात्षष्टिवृक्षप्ररोपणम् ॥ १८ ॥
Let him restore old works, O fair one, a well and a pond. Likewise let him plant sixty trees.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रयागे माघमासे तु तुलादानं प्रयत्नतः ॥धूम्रवर्णां तथा गां वै दद्याद्विप्राय सत्कृताम् ॥ १९ ॥
At Prayaga in the month of Magha, let him give the tuladana (a gift equal to one's own weight). Let him give a smoke-coloured cow, well honoured, to a brahmin. (Our text is unclear here: one sign in the word for smoke-coloured is not clear in print.)
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं कृते वरारोहे पूर्वपापं विशुद्ध्यति ॥पुत्रोऽपि जायते देवि वन्ध्यत्वं च प्रशाम्यति ॥२०॥
When this is done, O fair one, the past sin is cleansed. A son is born, O Goddess. The state of being a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) is calmed.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
काकवन्ध्यत्वशान्त्यर्थं रवियुक्तां तु सप्तमीम् ॥कृत्वा व्रतं वरारोहे सुवर्णे दानमाचरेत् ॥ २१ ॥
Let him keep the vrata (vow of fasting and worship) of the seventh day on a Sunday, O fair one. It ends the state of a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child). Let him give a gift of gold.
पूर्वाषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
शय्यादानं ततो दद्यान्मृतवत्सा सुपुत्रिणी ॥सर्वे रोगाः क्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥२२॥
Then let him give a gift of a bed. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) becomes a mother of good sons. All illnesses are destroyed, and there is no need to doubt.
Verse 80.18 says to restore old works, a well and a pond, and to plant sixty trees.
Verse 80.21 names the vrata of the seventh day on a Sunday, with a gift of gold.