Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 96 · A Herdsman and His Cattle
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.
Classical view, not medical advice.
अपुत्रत्वं ततो लेभे कन्यका जायते खलु ॥
Then he got no son; only daughters are born. I will tell his remedy. Listen, O beautiful Goddess.
निर्बीजं वृषभं तेन कृतं योगेन वै शिवे ॥
He had made a bull seedless by some means, O Parvati. By that sin, O Goddess, miscarriage comes again and again.
वसन्ते मासि वै कुर्य्यात् घटदानं सहस्रशः ॥
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…