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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 84
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for uttara ashadha 1st pada. In the story, a brahmin of Kanyakubja lives by trade, gambling and drink.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says he caused his younger brother's death with a sword at night. Shiva then gives the remedy: holy works, five lakh of japa and daily praise of Govinda. A seven-pala silver image of the brother is worshipped and given to a brahmin.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥श्वेतपर्वे महातीर्थे रामपुर्यां वरानने ॥कान्यकुब्जोऽवसद्विप्रो व्यापारकरणे रतः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In Shvetaparva, a great holy place, in Ramapuri, O fair-faced one, there lived a brahmin from Kanyakubja. He loved trade.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
अश्वादिकं वरारोहे वृषचर्माजिनाम्बरम् ॥प्रत्यहं गृह्यते देवि विक्रयं क्रियते सदा ॥ २ ॥
Every day he bought horses and the like, O fair one. He bought bull hides, deer skins and cloth. He always sold them again.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
द्यूतवेश्यारतो नित्यं परस्त्रीगमनं तथा ॥प्राकरोच्च सुरापानं गुरुदेवापमानकृत् ॥ ३ ॥
He was always fond of gambling and prostitutes. He also went to other men's wives. He drank liquor. He insulted his teacher and the gods.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं बहुगते काले मरणं प्रबभूव ह ॥यमदूतैर्महाघोरे लब्ध्वा क्षिप्तः सुदारुणे ॥४॥
Much time passed. Then death came. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) took him and threw him into a most dreadful hell.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥नरकान्निःसृतो देवि वानरस्य गतिं गतः ॥ ५ ॥
He suffered the pain of hell for sixty thousand years. Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he went into a monkey's birth.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो रासभयोन्यां वै तुरगस्य ततोऽगमत् ॥मानुषत्वं ततो लेभे पूर्वजन्मफलाच्च सः ॥ ६ ॥
Then he went into a donkey's birth, and then a horse's. Then, by the fruit of his earlier birth, he got a human birth.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
धनधान्यसमायुक्तो रोगयुक्तोऽप्यपुत्रकः ॥कदाचिद्दैवयोगेन पुत्रो भवति भामिनि ॥ ७ ॥
He has wealth and grain, but he is ill and has no son. By luck, at some time, a son is born, O lovely one.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
मरणं तस्य वै शीघ्रं ततः कन्या प्रजायते ॥अस्य शान्तिं शृणुष्वादौ यथा पापं निवर्तते ॥ ८ ॥
That son soon dies. Then a daughter is born. First hear the remedy, by which the wrong goes away.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गृहवित्तषडंशं च पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि कनिष्ठं भ्रातरं निजम् ॥ ९ ॥
Have good works done with a sixth part of house and wealth. In the earlier birth, O Goddess, he had his own younger brother.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
रात्रौ खड्गेन हतवान् तत्पापाच्च सुतक्षयः ॥गायत्रीमूलमंत्रेण पञ्चलक्षं वरानने ॥ १० ॥
He killed him with a sword at night. By that wrong his sons are lost. Have five lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra) done. Use the root mantra (sacred words) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant), O fair-faced one.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
जपं वै कारयेत्प्राज्ञैर्नित्यं गोविन्दकीर्तनम् ॥होमं वै कारयेत्कान्ते कुण्डे षट्कोणसंयुते ॥ ११ ॥
Have wise men do that japa (repeating a mantra). Every day, have the praise of Govinda (a name of Vishnu) sung. Have homa (fire offering) done, dear one, in a fire pit with six corners.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पायसेन विशालाक्षि तिलसर्पियुतेन च ॥दशवर्णां ततो दद्याद्ब्राह्मणाय शिवात्मने ॥ १२ ॥
Make it with rice pudding, O large-eyed one, with sesame and ghee. Then give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours) to a brahmin devoted to Shiva. (Our text is unclear here: the word for 'with ghee' may be spelled a little differently.)
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भूमिदानं ततो दद्याच्छय्यादानं विशेषतः ॥भ्रातुश्चैवाऽकृतिं कृत्वा रौप्येणैव वरानने ॥ १३ ॥
Then give land, and above all give a bed. Make an image of the brother in silver.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पलसप्तप्रमाणेन पूजां कृत्वा प्रसन्नधीः ॥देवदेव महादेव चर्मभस्मविभूषण ॥ १४ ॥
The image should weigh seven pala (a unit of weight). Worship it with a glad mind. Say: O God of gods, great God, you who are adorned with skin and ash,
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेश भ्रातृनाशः कृतो मया ॥तत्पापं क्षम्यतां देव प्रपद्ये शरणं तव ॥ १५ ॥
in an earlier birth, O Lord, I caused my brother's death. Forgive that wrong, O God. I come to you for shelter.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
प्रतिमां पूजितां देवि मन्त्रेणानेन वै शिवे ॥दद्याद्विप्राय विदुषे श्रोत्रियाय द्विजात्मने ॥ १६ ॥
Give the image, worshipped with this mantra (sacred words), O Parvati, to a learned brahmin. He should know the Veda and be twice-born in spirit.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो वै भोजयेद्भक्त्या ब्राह्मणान्वेदपारगान् ॥एकाधिकशतं देवि पायसैर्मोदकेन च ॥ १७ ॥
Then feed brahmins who know the Vedas well, with devotion. Feed a hundred and one, O Goddess, with rice pudding and sweet balls.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एवं कृत्वा वरारोहे पूर्वपापस्य संक्षयः ॥वन्ध्यत्वं प्रशमं याति पुत्रः सत्यं प्रजायते ॥ १८ ॥
Do this, O fair one, and the earlier wrong is wiped out. Barrenness ends. A son is truly born.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
काकवन्ध्या लभेत्पुत्रं मृतवत्सा सुपुत्रिणी ॥व्याधयः संक्षयं यान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥१९॥
A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) becomes a mother of good sons. Illnesses come to an end. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 84.14 says the image of the brother should weigh seven pala.
Verse 84.17 says a hundred and one, with rice pudding and sweet balls.