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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 97
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for shatabhisha 2nd pada. In the story, a hunter named Mrigari lives by deer meat and is fond of hunting birds.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The book links this deed to troubles in his family in a later birth. Shiva then gives the remedy: a sixth of the wealth for holy works and a hundred thousand japa. Ten cows, gold, the Harivamsha and a vow on Hari's day follow.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥मध्यदेशे महेशानि लुब्धको वसति प्रिये ॥मृगारिर्नाम विख्यातो मृगमांसेन जीवति ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: In the middle country, great Goddess, lived a hunter, dear one. He was famed as Mrigari and lived by deer meat.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
प्रत्यहं मृगयां याति पक्षिणां मारणे रतः ॥मांसक्रयं च कुरुते कलत्रं पोषयेत्सदा ॥ २ ॥
Every day he went hunting, fond of killing birds. He sold meat and always fed his wife.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एवं वयो गतं सर्वं वृद्धे सति वरानने ॥मरणं तस्य वै जातं यमदूतैर्यमाज्ञया ॥ ३ ॥
So his whole life went by. When he was old, O fair-faced one, death came to him. The messengers of Yama (the god of death) took him by Yama's order.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
रौरवे नरके क्षिप्तं तत्र कष्टं मुहुर्मुहुः ॥सप्ततिर्वै सहस्राणि नरके परिपच्यते ॥ ४ ॥
He was thrown into the Raurava hell, and there he suffered pain again and again. He is cooked in hell for seventy thousand years. (Our text is unclear here: the word for seventy is faint.)
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
नरकान्निःसृतो देवि श्येनयोनिं प्रजायते ॥उष्ट्रस्य च पुनर्योनिं शृगालत्वं ततः पुनः ॥ ५ ॥
Coming out of hell, O Goddess, he is born a hawk. Then he is born a camel, and after that a jackal.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
मानुषत्वं ततो जातं धनधान्येन संयुतः ॥पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि पक्षिणो बहवो हताः ॥ ६ ॥
Then he became human, with wealth and grain. In the past birth, O Queen of the gods, he killed many birds.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
तेन पापेन भो देवि व्याधिना पीडितो हि सः ॥मृगं हत्वा वरारोहे हतं च मृगशावकम् ॥ ७ ॥
By that sin, O Goddess, he is troubled by illness. He killed a deer, O fair-hipped one, and he killed a fawn.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
एतद्दोषेण भो देवि पुत्राणां मरणं खलु ॥काकवन्ध्या भवेन्नारी कन्यका जायते सदा ॥ ८ ॥
By this fault, O Goddess, his sons die. His wife is a kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child), and only daughters are born.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
वन्ध्या भवति वै नारी शान्तिं शृणु वरानने ॥गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ ९ ॥
The woman is a vandhya (a woman who cannot bear children). Listen to the remedy, fair-faced one. Let him have good works done with one sixth of his house and wealth.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
गायत्रीजातवेदाभ्यां लक्षजाप्यं वरानने ॥दशांशं हवनं तद्वत्तर्पणं मार्जनं तथा ॥ १० ॥
Let him have one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) done with the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) and "Jatavedase". Do it, fair-faced one. Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Add tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) and sprinkling.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
दश धेनूस्ततो दद्यात्स्वर्णदानं विशेषतः ॥हरिवंशश्रुतिं देवि व्रतं च हरिवासरम् ॥ ११ ॥
Then let him give ten cows, and above all gold. Let him hear the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna), O Goddess. Let him keep the vrata (vow of fasting and worship) of Hari's day (the eleventh lunar day).
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
ब्राह्मणान् भोजयामास यथाशक्ति तु दक्षिणा ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे वंशस्तस्य भविष्यति ॥ १२ ॥
Let him feed brahmins and give a fee as he is able. When this is done, O fair-hipped one, he will have a family line.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
वन्ध्यात्वं प्रशमं याति काकवन्ध्या पुनः सुतम् ॥मृतवत्सा सुतं लेभे चिरंजीविनमुत्तमम् ॥ १३ ॥
Barrenness is calmed. A kakavandhya (a woman who has only one child) gets a son again. A mritavatsa (one whose children die young) gets a fine son who lives long.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र द्वितीय चरण
व्याधयः संक्षयं यान्ति ज्ञानं च लभते क्वचित् ॥ १४ ॥
Diseases go to ruin, and sometimes he gains knowledge.
Verse 97.11 says the vrata of Hari's day, the eleventh lunar day.
Verse 97.11 says the Harivamsha, a sacred book about Krishna.