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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 91 · A Brahmin Who Lived by Theft
श्रवण नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
परद्रव्यं हृतं देवि तस्माद्व्याधिरजायत ॥तस्य शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि यत्कृतं पूर्वजन्मनि ॥ ८ ॥
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
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…
लक्षजाप्यं प्रयत्नेनाश्वत्थबिल्वतलेऽबले ॥
Let him carefully do one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) under a peepal or bilva tree, O gentle one. Let him do homa (fire offering) with…