Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 90 · A Brahmin of Kashmir and a Selling Wife
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥
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…
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.