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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 90
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for shravana 3rd pada. In the story, a brahmin of Kashmir has a wife who sells ghee, oil, curds and metal goods every day.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says he gave up a brahmin's own duty. Shiva then gives the remedy: a sixth of the wealth, japa and a feast for fifty brahmins. A bath at Prayaga with his wife in Magha and a gift in the Ganga complete it.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥काश्मीरनगरे देवि ब्राह्मणोऽध्यवसत्पुरा ॥खण्डशर्मेति विख्यातो गङ्गाख्या स्त्री तु कर्कशा ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the city of Kashmir, O Goddess, a brahmin lived long ago. He was famed as Khandasharma. His wife, named Ganga, was harsh.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पतिवाक्यं न साकार्षीद्विक्रयं कुरुते सदा ॥घृततैलं च देवेशि दधि तक्रं पुनर्गुडम् ॥ २ ॥
She did not follow her husband's word. She was always selling things. She sold ghee, oil, curds, buttermilk and jaggery, O Queen of the gods.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अश्वं च वृषभं चैव चामरं धातुवस्तु च ॥प्रत्यहं विक्रयं कर्त्री व्ययकर्त्री दिने दिने ॥ ३ ॥
She sold horses, bulls, fly-whisks and metal goods. She sold every day and spent every day.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं सर्वं वयो जातं वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥मरणं तस्य वै जातं ब्राह्मणस्य तदा शिवे ॥ ४ ॥
So his whole life went by. When he grew old, O fair-faced one, that brahmin died, dear Parvati.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
धर्मराजाज्ञया दूतैर्नरके कर्दमे तथा ॥निक्षिप्तः षष्टिसाहस्रं भुक्ता वै यातना तथा ॥ ५ ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death), his messengers threw him into a hell of mud. He suffered the torments there for sixty thousand years.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि वृकयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥रासभस्य पुनर्योनिर्मेषयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ६ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a wolf. Then he was born a donkey, and after that a sheep.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मानुषत्वं पुनर्लेभे मध्यदेशे वरानने ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तः पुत्रकन्याविवर्जितः ॥ ७ ॥
He got a human birth again in the middle country, O fair-faced one. He has wealth and grain, but no sons or daughters.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुनर्विवाहिता सा तु पूर्वजन्मफलाच्छुभे ॥शरीरे सततं रोगा वायोः संजायते शिवे ॥ ८ ॥
His wife is married for the second time, dear one. This comes from the fruit of the past birth. Diseases of the wind always arise in his body, dear Parvati.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणस्य स्वयं धर्मं यतस्त्यक्तं पुरा शुभे ॥अतः पुत्रविहीनेयं मृतवत्सात्वमाप्नुयात् ॥ ९ ॥
In the past he gave up a brahmin's own duty, dear one. So this woman has no son and gets the fate of a mritavatsa (one whose children die young).
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
अस्य शान्तिमहं वक्ष्ये शृणु देवि सुशोभने ॥गृहवित्तषडंशं च ब्राह्मणाय समर्पयेत् ॥ १० ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Listen, beautiful Goddess. Let him give one sixth of his house and wealth to a brahmin.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गायत्री चायुतं जप्त्वा मूलमन्त्रं शिवस्य तु ॥षडक्षरं सप्रणवं लक्षमेकं वरानने ॥ ११ ॥
Let him do japa (repeating a mantra) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) ten thousand times. Then let him do japa of Shiva's root mantra, the six-syllable one with Om. Let it be one hundred thousand times, O fair-faced one.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥ब्राह्मणान्भोजयेद्भक्त्या हविषा पायसेन च ॥ १२ ॥
Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part of that. Let him add sprinkling and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods). Let him feed brahmins with devotion, with sacred food and rice pudding.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पञ्चाशत्संख्यया देवि यथाशक्त्या तु दक्षिणाम् ॥प्रयागे माघमासे तु स्नानं भार्यासमन्वितः ॥ १३ ॥
Let there be fifty of them, O Goddess, and a fee as one is able. Let him bathe at Prayaga in the month of Magha, together with his wife.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
कूष्माण्डं नारिकेरं च पञ्चरत्नसमन्वितम् ॥गङ्गामध्ये प्रदातव्यं विधिपूर्वं वरानने ॥ १४ ॥
A pumpkin and a coconut with the five jewels should be given. Give them in the middle of the Ganga, by the rule, O fair-faced one.
श्रवण नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशवृद्धिर्भवेदनु ॥रोगाः सर्वे क्षयं यान्ति वन्ध्या भवति पुत्रिणी ॥१५॥
When this is done, there is no doubt: his family will grow. All diseases go to ruin. A vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children) becomes the mother of sons.
Verse 90.13 says fifty brahmins, and a fee as one is able.
Verse 90.14 says in the middle of the Ganga, by the rule.