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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 96
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for shatabhisha 1st pada. In the story, a herdsman in Mathura has many thousands of cattle.
Classical view, not medical advice.
In the cold rain a cow and her calf go without food and die outside, with no shed. Shiva then gives the remedy: a thousand pots, a vow on the eleventh day and a bath at Veni. Ten-coloured cows, a bed and a hundred thousand japa of Akrishnena follow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मथुरार्यां विशालाक्षि आभीरस्तत्र तिष्ठति ॥गोपालेति समाख्यातो सदा गोधनजीवितः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In Mathura, O large-eyed one, there lived a herdsman. He was called Gopala and always lived by his cattle. (Our text is unclear here: a mark over one letter of the city name looks like a stray mark; we read it as Mathura.)
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
तस्य भार्या विशालाक्षि सती नामातिसुन्दरी ॥गोधनं बहुसाहस्रं गोपालस्य सुरेश्वरि ॥ २ ॥
His wife, O large-eyed one, was named Sati and was very beautiful. Gopala had many thousands of cattle, O queen of the gods.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वत्सानां वृषभाणां च पालनं क्रियते सदा ॥शीतकाले महादेवि वृष्टिर्जाता वरानने ॥ ३ ॥
He always looked after the calves and bulls. In the cold season, great Goddess, rain fell, O fair-faced one.
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गौः सवत्सा महादेवि पीडिता भोजनं विना ॥गृहाऽभावे मृता बाह्ये वत्सेनैव च संयुता ॥ ४ ॥
A cow with her calf, great Goddess, was hurt by want of food. For lack of a shed she died outside, together with her calf.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
ततो बहुगते काले गोपालस्य मृतिस्तदा ॥यमदूतैर्महाघोरे नरके नाम कर्दमे ॥ ५ ॥
After much time passed, Gopala died. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) threw him into a very terrible hell named Mud.
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क्षिप्तं यमाज्ञया देवि षष्टिवर्षसहस्रकम् ॥नरकान्निःसृतो देवि भेकयोनिस्ततोऽभवत् ॥ ६ ॥
By the order of Yama (the god of death) he was thrown in for sixty thousand years. Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he was born a frog.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
सरटस्य ततो देवि मानुषत्वं ततोऽभवत् ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो व्याधिना पीडितः सदा ॥ ७ ॥
Then he was born a lizard, and after that a human. He has wealth and grain but is always troubled by illness.
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अपुत्रत्वं ततो लेभे कन्यका जायते खलु ॥तस्य शान्तिमहं वक्ष्ये शृणु देवि सुशोभने ॥ ८ ॥
Then he got no son; only daughters are born. I will tell his remedy. Listen, O beautiful Goddess.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
निर्बीजं वृषभं तेन कृतं योगेन वै शिवे ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि गर्भपातः पुनः पुनः ॥ ९ ॥
He had made a bull seedless by some means, O Parvati. By that sin, O Goddess, miscarriage comes again and again.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
वसन्ते मासि वै कुर्य्यात् घटदानं सहस्रशः ॥एकादशीव्रतं नित्यं वेण्याः स्नानं समाचरेत् ॥ १० ॥
In the spring month let him give pots by the thousand. Let him always keep the vrata (vow of fasting and worship) of the eleventh day. Let him bathe at the Veni (the meeting of rivers at Prayaga).
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
दशवर्णगवां दानं शय्यादानं तथैव च ॥आकृष्णेति जपं कुर्य्याल्लक्षसंख्यं वरानने ॥ ११ ॥
Let him give ten-coloured cows and give a bed too. Let him do japa (repeating a mantra) of "Akrishnena" one hundred thousand times, O fair-faced one.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
दशांशं हवनं तद्वन्मार्जनं तर्पणं तथा ॥भोजयेद्विविधैश्चान्नैर्ब्राह्मणान् श्रोतियान् शतम् १२॥
Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Do likewise sprinkling and tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods). Let him feed a hundred brahmins learned in the Vedas with many kinds of food.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र प्रथम चरण
पायसान्नेन खण्डेन घृतेन दधिना तथा ॥एवं कृते न संदेहो ज्वरमोक्षः प्रजायते ॥ १३ ॥
Let him feed them with rice pudding, sugar, ghee and curds. When this is done, there is no doubt: release from fever comes.
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वंशवृद्धिर्भवेत्तस्य मृतवत्सा च पुत्रिणी ॥काकवन्ध्या पुनः पुत्रं लभते नात्र संशयः ॥ १४ ॥
His family will grow. A woman who is a mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a son. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son again, there is no doubt in this.
Verse 96.11 says Akrishnena, one hundred thousand times.
Verse 96.10 says at the Veni, the meeting of rivers at Prayaga.