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Karma Vipaka Samhita · Chapter 99
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
This chapter of Karma Vipaka Samhita is for shatabhisha 4th pada. In the story, a merchant named Sukarma takes a loan from a brahmin for trade.
Classical view, not medical advice.
He does not repay it, and the book names this as the wrong he carries. Shiva then gives the remedy: a sixth of the wealth for good works and a hundred thousand japa of Akrishnena. The Harivamsha is recited, the Chandi is read and brahmins are fed.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
॥ शिव उवाच ॥पञ्चक्रोशमिते देवि मथुराउत्तरे तथा ॥हेमन्तपुरसद्ग्रामे वसन्ति बहवो जनाः ॥ १ ॥
Shiva said: Five krosha (a measure of distance) north of Mathura, O Goddess, there is a good village named Hemantapura. Many people live there.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तन्मध्ये वैश्य एको हि क्रयविक्रयतत्परः ॥स सुकर्मा इति ख्यातो धनं च बहु संचितम् ॥ २ ॥
Among them was one vaishya (trader class), busy with buying and selling. He was famed as Sukarma and had gathered much wealth.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
तस्य स्त्री पार्वती नाम रूपयौवनसंयुता ॥वैश्यश्चैव महादेवि प्रौढिं यातः सुरेश्वरि ॥ ३ ॥
His wife was named Parvati, full of beauty and youth. The merchant, O great Goddess, reached middle age, O queen of the gods.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दरिद्रत्वं भवेद्देवि दरिद्रत्वात्सुपीडितः ॥शतं पञ्च ऋणं नीतं ब्राह्मणस्य सुरेश्वरि ॥ ४ ॥
Poverty came, O Goddess, and he was badly troubled by it. He took a loan of a hundred and five from a brahmin, O queen of the gods.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
व्यापारार्थं विशालाक्षि न दत्तं ब्राह्मणाय वै ॥सर्वं भुक्तं महादेवि बहुकाले गते सति ॥ ५ ॥
For trade, O large-eyed one, it was not repaid to the brahmin. After a long time passed, he had used it all.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
वैश्यस्यैव भवेन्मृत्युः सभार्यस्य वरानने ॥मथुरायां विशालाक्षि लब्धं स्वर्गं वरं शुभम् ॥ ६ ॥
The merchant died, together with his wife, O fair-faced one. At Mathura he gained a fine, good heaven.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दशलक्षमितं स्वर्गे फलं भुक्त्वा वरानने ॥ततः सह कलत्रेण पुनः पुण्यक्षये सति ॥ ७ ॥
He enjoyed the fruit in heaven for a span of ten hundred thousand, O fair-faced one. Then, together with his wife, when the merit was used up again,
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
मानुषत्वं पुनर्लेभे देशे शुभ्रे मनोहरे ॥धनधान्यसमायुक्तो जायते वै सुरेश्वरि ॥ ८ ॥
he got a human birth again in a bright, lovely land. He is born with wealth and grain, O Queen of the gods.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
पूर्वजन्मनि देवेशि ब्राह्मणस्य धनं हृतम् ॥न दत्तं वै ततो देवि ततः पुत्रो न जायते ॥ ९ ॥
In the past birth, O Queen of the gods, he took a brahmin's wealth. He did not give it back, O Goddess. So no son is born to him.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
ततः शान्तिं प्रवक्ष्यामि यतः पापस्य संक्षयः ॥गृहवित्तषडंशेन पुण्यकार्यं च कारयेत् ॥ १० ॥
Now I will tell the remedy, by which the sin is destroyed. Let him have good works done with one sixth of his house and wealth.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
आकृष्णेति ततो मन्त्रलक्षजाप्यं च कारयेत् ॥दशांशं हवनं कुर्याद्दशांशं तर्पणं तथा ॥ ११ ॥
Then let him have one hundred thousand japa (repeating a mantra) done with the "Akrishnena" mantra (sacred words). Let him do homa (fire offering) with a tenth part. Let him do tarpana (water offering to the ancestors and gods) with a tenth part too.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
हरिवंशश्रुतिं देवि चण्डीपाठं शिवार्चनम् ॥विधिवत्कारयामास ब्राह्मणानां च भोजनम् ॥ १२ ॥
Let him have the Harivamsha (a sacred book about Krishna) recited. Let him have the Chandi (the sacred text of the Goddess) read. Let him have Shiva worshipped by the rule, O Goddess. And let him have brahmins fed.
शतभिषा नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
दशवर्णा तु गौर्देया शय्यादानं विशेषतः ॥एवं कृते वरारोहे वंशो भवति नान्यथा ॥व्याधिनाशः समायाति मम वाक्यमृतं भवेत् ॥ १३ ॥
A ten-coloured cow should be given, and above all a bed. When this is done, O fair-hipped one, he will have a family line; it is not otherwise. Disease ends. My word is true.
Verse 99.9 says he took a brahmin's wealth and did not give it back.
Verse 99.12 names the Harivamsha and the Chandi, the sacred text of the Goddess.