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Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 96 · A Herdsman and His Cattle
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
दशवर्णगवां दानं शय्यादानं तथैव च ॥
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.
पायसान्नेन खण्डेन घृतेन दधिना तथा ॥
Let him feed them with rice pudding, sugar, ghee and curds. When this is done, there is no doubt: release from fever comes.
वंशवृद्धिर्भवेत्तस्य मृतवत्सा च पुत्रिणी ॥
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…