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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 90 · A Brahmin of Kashmir and a Selling Wife
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
पञ्चाशत्संख्यया देवि यथाशक्त्या तु दक्षिणाम् ॥
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.
कूष्माण्डं नारिकेरं च पञ्चरत्नसमन्वितम् ॥
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.
एवं कृते न संदेहो वंशवृद्धिर्भवेदनु ॥
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…