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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 80 · A Brahmin of Ayodhya
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.)
Classical view, not medical advice.
एवं कृते वरारोहे पूर्वपापं विशुद्ध्यति ॥
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)…
काकवन्ध्यत्वशान्त्यर्थं रवियुक्तां तु सप्तमीम् ॥
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…
शय्यादानं ततो दद्यान्मृतवत्सा सुपुत्रिणी ॥
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…