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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 87 · A Scholar Who Ate the Wrong Food
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
अस्य शान्तिं शृणुष्वादौ पूर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम् ॥
First hear the remedy that destroys the earlier wrong. Set aside an eighth part of house and wealth for a brahmin.
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण दशायुतजपं ततः ॥
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…
दशवर्णां ततो दद्याच्छय्यादानं विशेषतः ॥
Then give dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), and above all a bed. Give a pumpkin and a coconut with five jewels.