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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 92
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for dhanishtha 1st pada. In the story, a brahmin farmer strikes his sister's son, a hungry beggar who came at night.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says the sister's son passes away by morning. Shiva then gives the remedy: three mantras, homa, a feast for fifty brahmins and gifts. A gold and silver image of the sister's son is worshipped by the rule and given away.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥देशे पञ्चनदे देवि गङ्गानाम्नी पुरी शुभा ॥वसन्ति सर्वे वै वर्णा ब्राह्मणाः क्षत्रिया विशः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the land of five rivers, O Goddess, there is a good city named Ganga. All the classes live there: brahmins, kshatriyas (warrior class) and vaishyas (trader class).
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
स्वकर्मनिरताः सर्वे वर्णाचारसमाश्रिताः ॥तन्मध्ये ब्राह्मणोऽप्येकः कृषिकर्मरतः सदा ॥ २ ॥
All were devoted to their own duties and followed the ways of their classes. Among them was one brahmin, always busy with farming.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
एकस्मिन्समये तदीयभगिनीपुत्रो गृहे भिक्षुकःप्राप्तस्तस्य बुभुक्षितो निशि तदा यष्ट्याहनत्तंखलः ॥ प्रातः कालकरालदन्तदलनं पुत्रः स्वसु-स्तस्य तत्पापात्सत्वरमाजगाम मरणं दुष्टः स्वयंचान्धधीः ॥ ३ ॥
Once his sister's son came to his house at night as a beggar, hungry. The wicked man struck him with a stick. By morning the sister's son was crushed by the fierce teeth of Death. Because of that sin, the wicked, blind-minded man soon came to his own death.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
यमदूतैर्महादेवि निक्षिप्तो नरकार्णवे ॥अष्टाशीतिसहस्राणि वर्षाणि च तदा शिवे ॥ ४ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into an ocean of hell, O great Goddess. He stayed there eighty-eight thousand years.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
भुज्यते विविधं कष्टं नरकं चैव दारुणम् ॥नरकान्निःसृतो देवि मार्जारत्वे भवेत्किल ॥ ५ ॥
He suffered many kinds of pain in that terrible hell. Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a cat.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
व्याघ्रस्य च पुनर्योनिं कुक्कुटत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥पुनर्मानुषयोनिं च धनधान्यसमन्वितम् ॥ ६ ॥
He was born again as a tiger, and then as a rooster. Then he got a human birth again, with wealth and grain.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
स प्रवीणो महावक्ता कुलाचाररतः सदा ॥पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि भागिनेयस्य वै वधः ॥ ७ ॥
He is clever, a great speaker, and always keeps the family ways. In the past birth, O Goddess, he killed his sister's son.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
कृतो वै मन्दमतिना तत्पापेनेह दुःखभुक् ॥पुत्रो न जायते देवि व्याधिश्चैव पुनः पुनः ॥ ८ ॥
That was done by a dull-minded man. For that sin he suffers here. No son is born, O Goddess, and illness comes again and again.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
अस्य शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु मत्तो वरानने ॥गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ ९ ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Listen to me, fair-faced one. Let him have good works done with one sixth of his house and wealth.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
गायत्रीत्र्यम्बकाभ्यां च द्यौः शान्तीति मनुत्रयम् ॥लक्षत्रयं वरारोहे जपं वै कारयेत्सुधीः ॥ १० ॥
The Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant), the Tryambaka (the mantra to three-eyed Shiva) and "Dyauh shanti": these are three mantras (sacred words). O fair-hipped one, let the wise man have japa (repeating a mantra) done three hundred thousand times.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
दशांशहवनं देवि तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥ब्राह्मणान्भोजयेद्भक्त्या पञ्चाशच्च वरानने ॥ ११ ॥
Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part, O Goddess. Add tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and sprinkling. Let him feed fifty brahmins with devotion, fair-faced one.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
हविषा पायसेनापि खण्डेन मोदकेन वै ॥दशवर्णां ततो दानं तिलधेनुं प्रदापयेत् ॥ १२ ॥
Let him feed them with sacred food, rice pudding, sugar and sweet balls. Then let him give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours) and a cow made of sesame.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पञ्चपात्रं च संदाय पिण्डदानं च कारयेत् ॥भागिनेयस्य वै मूर्तिः सुवर्णरजतान्विता ॥ १३ ॥
Let him give a set of five vessels and have the rice-ball offering for the ancestors done. Let him make an image of the sister's son, with gold and silver.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
दशपलसुवर्णेन सवत्सां पीठसंयुताम् ॥पूजयामास विधिवन्मन्त्रेणानेन वै शिवे ॥ १४ ॥
It is of ten pala (a unit of weight) of gold, with a calf, joined to a seat. Worship it by the rule with this mantra, dear Parvati.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सुराराध्य जगत्स्वामिन् चराचरगुरो हरे ॥मम पूर्वकृतं पापं तत्क्षमस्व दयानिधे ॥ १५ ॥
O God worshipped by the gods, lord of the world, teacher of all that moves and does not move, Hari! Forgive my sin done before, O ocean of mercy.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
अज्ञानाद्वा प्रमादाद्वा भागिनेयवधः कृतः ॥तत् क्षमस्व दयापूर्ण त्र्यम्बक त्रिपुरान्तक ॥ १६ ॥
Whether through ignorance or carelessness, the killing of my sister's son was done. Forgive that, O one full of mercy, Tryambaka, destroyer of Tripura.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो वै पूजयामास लोकपालान् पृथक् पृथक्॥पश्चान्माषबलिं दद्यात्प्रतिमां दापयेत्ततः ॥ १७ ॥
Then let him worship the guardians of the directions, one by one. After that let him give an offering of black gram, and then have the image given. (Our text is unclear here: a small mark near the opening words may be only a blemish.)
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ब्राह्मणाय तदा देवि पूर्वपापविशुद्धये ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे पुत्रः संजायते खलु ॥ १८ ॥
Let it be given to a brahmin, O Goddess, to cleanse the past sin. When this is done, O fair-hipped one, a son is born.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
व्याधयः संक्षयं यान्ति न कन्या जायते खलु ॥यदा न क्रियते देवि सप्तजन्मस्वपुत्रकः ॥ १९ ॥
Diseases go to ruin. A daughter is not born. If it is not done, O Goddess, he will have no son for seven births.
Verse 92.10 names the Gayatri, the Tryambaka and Dyauh shanti.
Verse 92.16 asks forgiveness for the death of the sister's son, whether through ignorance or carelessness.