Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 94 · A Warrior and a Doe
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
शान्तिं शृणु वरारोहे मृतवत्सत्वशान्तये ॥
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…
गायत्रीमूलमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं तु कारयेत् ॥
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…
पलपञ्चसुवर्णस्य मृगीं वत्ससमन्विताम् ॥
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.