Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 92 · A Farmer and His Sister's Son
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
कृतो वै मन्दमतिना तत्पापेनेह दुःखभुक् ॥
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.
अस्य शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु मत्तो वरानने ॥
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.
गायत्रीत्र्यम्बकाभ्यां च द्यौः शान्तीति मनुत्रयम् ॥
The Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant), the Tryambaka (the mantra to three-eyed Shiva) and "Dyauh shanti": these are three mantras (sacred words). O…