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Vira Simhavaloka · Chapter 16
रक्तपित्त — कर्मविपाकः
This is the Raktapitta karmavipaka chapter of Vira Simhavaloka, on the past-life deed the text links to this trouble. It is a one-unit chapter.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The text links this trouble to pride in medical learning in a past life. It gives a fire offering of ten thousand and eight times.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
Raktapitta (bleeding disorder) - past deeds
अथ कर्मविपाकाभिप्रायेण रक्तपित्तप्रतीकारमाह — यःपूर्वजन्मनिवैद्यशास्त्रमदाद्युक्तौषधमन्यथा कृत्वा प्रयोजयति स शोणितपित्तव्याधिमान् भवति । स अग्निं दूतं वृणीमहइत्यादिना चरुघृताभ्यामष्टोत्तरायुतमग्नौ जुहुयात् रक्तपित्तापनुत्तये इति गरुडपुराणाभिधानात् ॥
Next, the remedy for raktapitta (bleeding disorder) is told from the view of past deeds. In a past life, someone may have been proud of his medical learning. He changed the right medicine and gave it wrongly. The text says such a person has shonitapitta, that is raktapitta. He should offer charu (rice offering) and ghee into the fire ten thousand and eight times. He uses the Vedic mantra that begins "agnim dutam vrinimahe". This is to ease raktapitta, as the Garuda Purana names it.
Unit 16.1 gives the whole chapter: the past-life deed it links to the trouble and the fire offering that follows.