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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 93
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for dhanishtha 2nd pada. In the story, a brahmin lives among outsiders and gives up his twilight prayers.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He eats their food without tarpana, and the book says he gives up being a brahmin. Shiva then gives the remedy: his house and stored food to a brahmin, and a hundred thousand japa. A three-month vrata and the Ravi Saptami vow are kept.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥पश्चिमायां महादेवि यवनस्य पुरं महत् ॥महानन्द इति ख्यातं सर्वदेशे सुरेश्वरि ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the west, great Goddess, there is a large city of a Yavana (a foreigner). It is known in every land as Mahananda, O queen of the gods.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
वसन्ति बहवो म्लेच्छाः स्वविद्यायां विचक्षणाः ॥ब्राह्मणास्तत्र वै देवि विद्यायां निपुणास्तथा ॥ २ ॥
Many outsiders live there, skilled in their own learning. Brahmins live there too, O Goddess, skilled in learning.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
तिष्ठत्यशंकया नित्यं म्लेच्छान्नं भुज्यते सदा ॥स संध्यारहितो विप्रः पिशुनो दुर्मतिः शठः ॥ ३ ॥
He lived there without fear, always eating the food of outsiders. That brahmin gave up the twilight prayers. He was a tale-bearer, evil-minded and crooked.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
संचितं बहुसाहस्रं स्वर्णरत्नगजादिकम् ॥ततो बहुदिने जाते तस्य मृत्युरभूत्पुरा ॥ ४ ॥
He gathered many thousands in gold, jewels, elephants and the like. After many days passed, he died.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
सर्पेण दष्टो देवेशि पञ्चके निर्जलेऽपि वा ॥यमदूतैर्महादेवि यमाज्ञां गृह्य वै द्विजम् ॥ ५ ॥
He was bitten by a snake, O Queen of the gods. It was in the panchaka (the Moon's time in the five stars Dhanishtha to Revati), or without water. The messengers of Yama (the god of death), O great Goddess, took the brahmin by Yama's order.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
रौरवे क्षिप्तवाञ्छीघ्रं महाकष्टं प्रभुज्यते ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ६ ॥
He was thrown at once into the Raurava hell and suffered great pain. He endured the torment of hell for sixty thousand years.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि ग्राहयोनिरभूत्पुरा ॥पुनः कच्छपयोनिश्च मानुषत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥ ७ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a crocodile. Then he was born a tortoise, and then he got a human birth.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि भो देवि ब्राह्मणत्वं यतोऽत्यजत् ॥अपुत्रत्वं ततो देवि कन्यका नैव जायते ॥ ८ ॥
In the past birth, O Goddess, he gave up being a brahmin. So he has no son, O Goddess, and no daughter is born.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
म्लेच्छान्नं भुज्यते देवि संध्यां च तर्पणं विना ॥अतो व्याधियुतो नित्यं न सुखं लभते क्वचित् ॥ ९ ॥
He ate outsiders' food, O Goddess, without the twilight prayers and without tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods). So he is always full of illness and finds happiness nowhere.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
शान्तिं शृणु वरारोहे पूर्वपापप्रणाशिनीम् ॥गृहं शुभ्रं वरारोहे धनधान्यसमन्वितम् ॥ १० ॥
Listen to the remedy that destroys the past sin, O fair-hipped one. A bright house, full of wealth and grain,
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
संचितान्नं वरारोहे ब्राह्मणाय प्रदापयेत् ॥गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं च कारयेत् ॥ ११ ॥
and his stored food, let him give to a brahmin. Let him have one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) done. Use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the root mantra (sacred words).
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥त्रैमासिकव्रतं कुर्यात् व्रतं च रविसप्तमी ॥ १२ ॥
Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Add sprinkling and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods). Let him keep a three-month vrata (vow of fasting and worship). Let him also keep the Ravi Saptami vow (a seventh lunar day that falls on a Sunday).
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
जातवेदेति मन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं तु कारयेत् ॥ततो गां कपिलां देवि स्वर्णवस्त्रविभूषिताम् ॥ १३ ॥
Let him have one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) done with the "Jatavedase" mantra (to Jatavedas, a name of the fire god). Then, O Goddess, a tawny cow adorned with gold and cloth,
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
दद्यात्सवस्त्रां विधिवद्ब्राह्मणाय शिवात्मने ॥अश्वदानं च कर्तव्यं चामरं छत्रमेव च ॥ १४ ॥
should be given by the rule, with cloth, to a brahmin devoted to Shiva. A horse should be given too, and a fly-whisk and an umbrella.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं कृते न संदेहो व्याधिनाशो भवेद् ध्रुवम्॥पुत्रोऽपि जायते देवि वन्ध्यत्वं च प्रशाम्यति ॥ १५ ॥
When this is done, there is no doubt: disease surely ends. A son is born, O Goddess, and barrenness is calmed.
Verse 93.12 says it is a seventh lunar day that falls on a Sunday.
Verse 93.11 says his house, full of wealth and grain, and his stored food are given to a brahmin.