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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 87
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for uttara ashadha 4th pada. In the story, a learned brahmin eats a meal where a funeral rite had not been done.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book also says he took an outsider's wealth and ate an outsider's food. Shiva then gives the remedy: an eighth of the wealth, japa, homa and dashavarna. A pumpkin and a coconut with five jewels are given in the middle of the Ganga.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥गुर्जरे नगरे देवि न्यवसञ्ज्ञानवान् द्विजः ॥बलभद्रः समाख्यातो वेदानां पाठकः सुधीः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In a city of Gurjara, O Goddess, there lived a wise brahmin named Balabhadra. He recited the Vedas and was clever.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ऋग्वेदं च यजुर्वेदं सामवेदमथर्वणम् ॥पठितं चैव कुरुते चतुर्वेदी द्विजोत्तमः ॥ २ ॥
He studied the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda. He was a knower of four Vedas, the best of brahmins.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
एकस्मिन् दिवसे देवि देशे कश्चिन्मृतः खलु ॥भोजनं तेन संस्कारं विना तत्र कृतं प्रिये ॥ ३ ॥
One day, O Goddess, someone died in that land. Balabhadra ate a meal there, though the funeral rite had not been done, dear one.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
म्लेच्छद्रव्यं गृहीतं च भुक्तं पुत्रयुतेन च ॥पत्न्या सह वरारोहे ततो वृद्धवयो गतः ॥ ४ ॥
He took the wealth of a mleccha (outsider). He enjoyed it with his son and his wife, O fair one. Then he grew old.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मरणं तस्य वै जातं शंकेश्वरपुरे यदा ॥यमाज्ञया तदा देवि यमदूतैरितस्ततः ॥५॥
His death came in Shankeshvarapura. By the order of Yama (the god of death), O Goddess, the messengers took him here and there.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
नरके पतितं पश्चान्मर्त्यलोके ततोऽगमत् ॥कुक्कुटत्वं विशालाक्षि काकं पारावतं ततः ॥ ६ ॥
He fell into hell, and afterwards went to the world of mortals. He became a rooster, a crow, and then a pigeon.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मानुषत्वं पुनर्लेभे शुभे देवि कुले महत् ॥स पण्डितो महाविद्वान् ज्ञातिधर्मविचक्षणः ॥ ७ ॥
He got a human birth again, in a great and good family. He is a scholar, very learned, expert in the duties of his caste.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि म्लेच्छान्नं भोजनं कृतम् ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि पुत्रः कन्या न जायते ॥ ८ ॥
In the earlier birth, O Goddess, he ate the food of a mleccha (outsider). For that wrong, neither son nor daughter is born.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
प्रेतान्नं भोजनं कृत्वा संस्कारो न कृतः पुरा ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि शरीरे रोगसंभवः ॥ ९ ॥
He ate food meant for a preta (ghost), before the funeral rite was done. For that wrong, O Goddess, illness arises in the body.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
अस्य शान्तिं शृणुष्वादौ पूर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम् ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं ब्राह्मणाय प्रकल्पयेत् ॥ १० ॥
First hear the remedy that destroys the earlier wrong. Set aside an eighth part of house and wealth for a brahmin.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण दशायुतजपं ततः ॥हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥ ११ ॥
Then do a hundred thousand (ten times ten thousand) japa (repeating a mantra). Use the root mantra (sacred words) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Do homa (fire offering) of a tenth part. Do sprinkling with water and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) the same way.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दशवर्णां ततो दद्याच्छय्यादानं विशेषतः ॥कूष्माण्डं नारिकेरं च पञ्चरत्नसमन्वितम् ॥ १२ ॥
Then give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), and above all a bed. Give a pumpkin and a coconut with five jewels.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गङ्गामध्ये प्रदातव्यं पूर्वपापप्रणाशनम् ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे शीघ्रं पुत्रः प्रजायते ॥ १३ ॥
Give it in the middle of the Ganga. It destroys the earlier wrong. Do this, O fair one, and a son is soon born.
उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
व्याधयः संक्षयं यान्ति काकवन्ध्या लभेत्सुतम् ॥१४
Illnesses come to an end. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son.
Verse 87.12 says a pumpkin and a coconut with five jewels are given.
Verse 87.10 says an eighth part of house and wealth for a brahmin.