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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 90 · A Brahmin of Kashmir and a Selling Wife
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
ब्राह्मणस्य स्वयं धर्मं यतस्त्यक्तं पुरा शुभे ॥
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).
अस्य शान्तिमहं वक्ष्ये शृणु देवि सुशोभने ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Listen, beautiful Goddess. Let him give one sixth of his house and wealth to a brahmin.
गायत्री चायुतं जप्त्वा मूलमन्त्रं शिवस्य तु ॥
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…