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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 89
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for shravana 2nd pada. In the story, a rich brahmin lives with outsiders and sells wool.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says he eats their food every day, and links this to troubles in a later birth. Shiva then gives a short remedy: a lakh of japa, homa and sprinkling. Gifts of cows, cloth and a thousand pots follow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥गान्धारदेशे वै शुभ्रे गान्धारस्य पुरे शुभे ॥वसन्ति तत्र बहवो जनाः पुण्योपजीविनः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the bright land of Gandhara, in the lovely city of Gandhara, many people live. They live by honest, good work.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
तन्मध्ये ब्राह्मणोऽप्येको लक्ष्मीवान् गुणवर्जितः ॥यवनानां महन्मित्रं सार्द्धं म्लेच्छेन तिष्ठति ॥ २ ॥
Among them was one brahmin, rich but without good qualities. He was a close friend of the Yavanas (foreigners). He lived with a mleccha (outsider).
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ऊर्णादिकं वरारोहे विक्रयं कुरुते सदा ॥म्लेच्छान्नं भुज्यते नित्यं म्लेच्छभार्याविहारकृत् ॥३॥
He always sold wool and the like. He ate the food of the mleccha (outsider) every day. He enjoyed the women of the mleccha.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं बहु वयो जातं ततो वै मरणं खलु ॥यमदूतैर्महाघोरैर्नरकेऽत्यन्तदारुणे ॥ ४ ॥
Many years passed. Then he died. The very terrible messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a most cruel hell.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
निक्षिप्तं तेन वै देवि षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥भुक्तं सुदुःसहं कर्म विविधं नरके फलम् ॥ ५ ॥
He was thrown there for sixty thousand years. He suffered many unbearable results of his deeds in hell.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि वृकयोनिरभूत्पुरा ॥रासभस्य ततो योनिर्मृक्षत्वेऽभूत्पुनः प्रिये ॥ ६ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a wolf. Then he was born a donkey. Then he was born a bear, dear one.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
मानुषत्वं पुनर्लेभे मध्यदेशे सुरेश्वरि ॥पूर्वजन्मनि म्लेच्छान्नं भुक्तं पुत्रेण वै शिवे ॥ ७ ॥
He got a human birth again in the Middle Country, O Goddess. In the earlier birth he ate the food of a mleccha (outsider) with his son, O Parvati.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
अतो वंशस्य विच्छेदो व्याधीनां चोद्भवस्तथा ॥अस्य दोषस्य वै शान्तिं शृणु मे परमेश्वरि ॥ ८ ॥
So the family line is cut off and illnesses arise. Hear from me the remedy for this fault, O Supreme Goddess.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं वरानने ॥हवनं तद्दशांशेन तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥ ९ ॥
Do a lakh (100,000) of japa (repeating a mantra). Use the root mantra (sacred words) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant), O fair-faced one. Do homa (fire offering) of a tenth part. Do tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and sprinkling the same way.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
सवृषं पञ्चगोदानं वस्त्रदानं विशेषतः ॥सहस्रघटदानं च गोदानं च सुरेश्वरि ॥ १० ॥
Give five cows with a bull. Give cloth especially. Give a thousand pots, and a cow, O Goddess.
श्रवण नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशवृद्धिर्भविष्यति ॥रोगा विनाशमायान्ति नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ ११ ॥
Do this, and there is no doubt: the family will grow. Illnesses come to an end. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 89.9 gives a lakh of Gayatri japa, homa of a tenth part, and tarpana and sprinkling the same way.
Verse 89.10 names five cows with a bull, cloth, and a thousand pots and a cow.