Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 98 · A Brahmin Given to Drink and Gambling
शतभिषा नक्षत्र तृतीय चरण
मानुषत्वं ततो लेभे देशे पुण्यतमे शुभे ॥पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि मद्यपानरतः सदा ॥ ६ ॥
Then he got a human birth in a most holy and good land. In the past birth, O Queen of the gods, he was always given to drinking.
Classical view, not medical advice.
तेन पापेन भो देवि शरीरे रोगसंभवः ॥
By that sin, O Goddess, illness arises in his body. He was always given to gambling and prostitutes in the past birth.
तत्पापेन महादेवि वंशच्छेदश्च जायते ॥
By that sin, great Goddess, the cutting off of his family comes. Listen to the remedy that destroys the past sin, O fair-faced one.
गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥
Let him have good works done with one sixth of his house and wealth. Let him have one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) done with the…