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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 95
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for dhanishtha 4th pada. In the story, a man named Kshipakara loves his youngest son best and ignores the elder two.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The brothers quarrel over dividing the money, and a brahmin friend loses his life in the quarrel. Shiva then gives the remedy: a sixth of the wealth, japa of the Gayatri and the Sun mantra. A pumpkin and a coconut with five jewels are given in the middle of the Ganga.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मथुरादक्षिणे भागे योजने वै त्रयोपरि ॥पुरं सिद्धमिति ख्यातं वसन्ति बहवो जनाः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: More than three yojanas (a measure of distance) south of Mathura there is a town named Siddha. Many people live there.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
क्षिपकारो वसत्येको धनधान्यसमन्वितः ॥बलभद्र इति ख्यातो वैष्णवो ज्ञानवल्लभः ॥ २ ॥
One Kshipakara lives there, with wealth and grain. He was named Balabhadra, a devotee of Vishnu, who loved knowledge.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तस्य पुत्रत्रयं जातं कनीयांस्तस्य चादरः ॥नादरो ज्येष्ठपुत्रस्य मध्यमस्य तथैव च ॥ ३ ॥
He had three sons. The youngest was dear to him. He had no regard for the eldest, and the same for the middle one.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
धनं च संचितं तेन महाशूद्रेण चानघे ॥भ्रातॄणां विग्रहो जातो विभागार्थं धनस्य तु ॥ ४ ॥
O faultless one, that great shudra (servant class) had gathered wealth. The brothers quarrelled over dividing the money. (Our text is unclear here: the vowel mark in the word for brothers is not certain.)
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ब्राह्मणस्तस्य वै मित्रं विग्रहस्तेन वै श्रुतः ॥आगतस्तस्य निकटे क्षिपकारस्य वै शिवे ॥ ५ ॥
A brahmin was his friend. He heard of the quarrel and came near Kshipakara, dear Parvati.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ब्राह्मणस्य वधो जातः शूद्राणां विग्रहे सति ॥सर्वं द्रव्यं कनिष्ठाय क्षिपकारो ददौ स्वयम् ॥ ६ ॥
The brahmin was killed in the shudras' (servant class) quarrel. Kshipakara himself gave all the wealth to the youngest.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
एवं बहुगते काले शूद्रस्य मरणं भवेत् ॥रौरवं नरकं जातं क्षिपकाराय वै स्वयम् ॥ ७ ॥
After much time passed, the shudra (servant class) died. The Raurava hell came to Kshipakara himself.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
लक्षवर्षं वरारोहे भुक्त्वा नरकयातनाम् ॥नरकान्निःसृतो देवि व्याघ्रयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ८ ॥
He suffered the torment of hell for one hundred thousand years, O fair-faced one. Coming out of hell, he was born a tiger.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
भुक्त्वा व्याघ्रस्य योनिं स काकयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥मानुषत्वं पुनर्जातं मध्यदेशे सुरेश्वरि ॥ ९ ॥
After living as a tiger, he was born a crow. Then he got a human birth again, in the middle country, O queen of the gods.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
धनधान्यसमायुक्तो रोगवान् पुत्रवर्जितः ॥अस्य शांतिं प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु मे परमेश्वरि ॥ १० ॥
He has wealth and grain, but is ill and without sons. I will tell the remedy for this. Listen to me, supreme Goddess.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥पूर्वपापविशुद्ध्यर्थं दशवर्णां ददेत्ततः ॥ ११ ॥
Let him have good works done with one sixth of his house and wealth. Then, to cleanse the past sin, let him give a dashavarna (a gift of ten colours).
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गायत्रीसूर्यमन्त्रेण लक्षजाप्यं वरानने ॥दशांशं हवनं देवि मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥ १२ ॥
Let him do one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) with the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant). Add the Sun mantra, O fair-faced one. Then let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Add sprinkling and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods).
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दशांशं भोजयद्विप्रान् ब्राह्मणान्वेदपारगान् ॥कूष्माण्डं नारिकेरं च पञ्चरत्नसमन्वितम् ॥ १३ ॥
Let him feed brahmins who have mastered the Vedas, with a tenth part. A pumpkin and a coconut with the five jewels
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
गङ्गामध्ये प्रदातव्यं देवि सत्यव्रताय च ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे सर्वरोगक्षयो भवेत् ॥ १४ ॥
should be given in the middle of the Ganga, O Goddess, to a man true to his vow. When this is done, O fair-faced one, all disease comes to an end.
धनिष्ठा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
वंशवृद्धिर्भवेत्तस्य नात्र कार्या विचारणा ॥ १५ ॥
His family will grow. There is no need to doubt this.
Verse 95.12 says the Gayatri, with the Sun mantra added.
Verses 95.13 and 95.14 say a pumpkin and a coconut with the five jewels are given in the middle of the Ganga.