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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 91 · A Brahmin Who Lived by Theft
श्रवण नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
धनधान्येन संयुक्तः कन्यापुत्रविवर्जितः ॥ब्राह्मण्यं च यतस्त्यक्त्वा शूद्रकर्म समाचरत् ॥ ७ ॥
He has wealth and grain, but no daughters or sons. He gave up a brahmin's way and did the work of a shudra (servant class).
Classical view, not medical advice.
परद्रव्यं हृतं देवि तस्माद्व्याधिरजायत ॥
O Goddess, he took other people's goods, and so illness arose in him. I will tell the remedy for what he did in the past birth.
गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥
Let him have good works done with one eighth of his house and wealth. Let him give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), to wash away the past wrong.
शय्यादानं ततः कुर्यादेकादश्यां व्रतं शुभम् ॥
Then let him give a bed and keep the good vrata (vow of fasting and worship) on the eleventh day. Let him use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and…