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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 94
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for dhanishtha 3rd pada. In the story, a warrior of Saurashtra spends his days hunting deer.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book says he kills a pregnant doe with her two young ones in the forest. Shiva then gives the remedy: an eighth of the wealth, a hundred thousand japa and homa. A gold doe with her fawn is made and given to a brahmin.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥यत्किंचित्क्रियते कर्म वैदिकं चापि लौकिकम् ॥ततत्कर्मफलं भोग्यमिह लोके परत्र च ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Whatever deed is done, of the Vedas or of the world, its fruit must be enjoyed. It is enjoyed in this world and in the next.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
सौराष्ट्रनगरे देवि क्षत्रियो वसति प्रिये ॥क्षत्रधर्मरतो नित्यं मृगपक्षिप्रहारकः ॥ २ ॥
In the city of Saurashtra, dear one, there lived a kshatriya (warrior class), O Goddess. He was devoted to a warrior's duty and was always killing deer and birds.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
एकस्मिन् समये काले वनं यातः सुदुर्मतिः ॥मृगीं सगर्भां हतवान् बालकद्वयसंयुताम् ॥ ३ ॥
Once that very evil-minded man went to the forest. He killed a pregnant doe, together with her two young ones.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पुत्रेण भार्यया सार्द्धं भुक्तं तेन दुरात्मना ॥ततो वृद्धे तु संजाते तस्य मृत्युरभूत्किल ॥ ४ ॥
That wicked man ate them with his son and wife. When he grew old, he died.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
यमदूतैर्महादेवि नरके क्षिप्त एव सः ॥षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥ ५ ॥
The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into hell, O great Goddess. He suffered the torment of hell for sixty thousand years.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि महिषो जायते खलु ॥वराहत्वं पुनर्जातं मानुषत्वं पुनर्भवेत् ॥ ६ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a buffalo. Then he was born a boar. Then he became human again.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
देशे पुण्यतमे देवि धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥विद्यावान् गुणवान् वक्ता राजसेवासु तत्परः ॥ ७ ॥
He is born in a most holy land, O Goddess, with wealth and grain. He is learned, virtuous, a good speaker, and devoted to serving the king.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि हत्वा मृगगणान्बहून् ॥प्रसवोन्मुखीं मृगीं हत्वा मृगवृन्दसमन्विताम् ॥ ८ ॥
In the past birth, O Queen of the gods, he killed many deer. He killed a doe about to give birth, along with her herd.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
तत्पापेन महादेवि मृतवत्सत्वमाप्नुयात् ॥शरीरे बहवो रोगा ज्वराश्चातुर्थिकास्तथा ॥ ९ ॥
By that sin, great Goddess, he gets the fate of a mritavatsa (one whose children die young). Many diseases are in his body, and fevers that return every fourth day.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
शान्तिं शृणु वरारोहे मृतवत्सत्वशान्तये ॥गृहवित्ताष्टमं भागं पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ १० ॥
Listen to the remedy, fair-faced one, to end the mritavatsa (one whose children die young) fate. Let him have good works done with one eighth of his house and wealth.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं तु कारयेत् ॥हवनं तद्दशांशेन मार्जनं तर्पणं ततः ॥ ११ ॥
Let him have one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) done. Use the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and the root mantra (sacred words). Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Then add sprinkling and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods).
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
पलपञ्चसुवर्णस्य मृगीं वत्ससमन्विताम् ॥कृत्वा समर्पयामास ब्राह्मणाय शिवात्मने ॥ १२ ॥
Let him make a doe of five pala (a unit of weight) of gold, with her fawn. Let him give it to a brahmin devoted to Shiva.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
दशवर्णां ततो दद्याच्छय्यादानं विशेषतः ॥वाटिकारोपणं कुर्यात् पथि कूपं तथा शिवे ॥ १३ ॥
Then let him give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours), and above all a bed. Let him plant a garden and dig a well by the road, dear Parvati.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
ब्राह्मणान् भोजयामास शतसंख्यान्समोदकैः ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे पुत्रः संजायते खलु ॥ १४ ॥
Let him feed a hundred brahmins with sweet balls. When this is done, O fair-faced one, a son is born.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
व्याधयः संक्षयं यान्ति वन्ध्यात्वं च प्रशाम्यति ॥मृतवत्सा तु या नारी सुतं सानुग्रहं लभेत् ॥ १५ ॥
Diseases go to ruin and barrenness is calmed. A woman who is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a son, by grace.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
काकवन्ध्या पुनः पुत्रं लभते नात्र संशयः ॥ १६ ॥
A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son again. There is no doubt in this.
Verse 94.12 says a doe of five pala of gold, with her fawn.
Verse 94.13 says to plant a garden and dig a well by the road.