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Vira Simhavaloka · Chapter 48
हृद्रोग — कर्मविपाकः
This is the Hridroga karmavipaka chapter of Vira Simhavaloka, on the past-life deed the text links to this trouble. It is a short chapter of two units.
Classical view, not medical advice.
The text links this trouble to paining another's heart, and gives amends of a fast, a gift and japa.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
Hridroga (heart trouble) - past deeds
अथ हृद्रोगस्य कर्मविपाके प्रकारमाह तत्प्रतीकारं च । यथोक्तम् । परहृदयपीडाकरो हृद्रोगी च जायते ।
Next, the text tells the result of past deeds for heart trouble, and its remedy. As it is said: one who pained another's heart may be born with heart trouble.
Hridroga (heart trouble) - past deeds
तस्य प्रायश्चित्तमेकं प्राजापत्यं कुर्यात् । तदशक्तौ गां सुवर्णं च दद्यात्।उद्यन्नद्येति सूक्तं जपेत् । तिलाज्येन च जुहुयात् । सहस्रनामस्तोत्रं जपेत् । नामत्रयं वा जपेत् कूष्मांडहोमं च कुर्यात् । इति हृद्रोगहरः कर्मविपाकप्रकारः ।
For this he should keep one Prajapatya (a twelve-day penance fast). If he cannot, he should give a cow and gold. He should do japa (repeating a mantra) of the sukta (Vedic hymn) that begins "udyann adya". He should offer sesame and ghee in the fire. He should recite the thousand-names hymn, or repeat the three names. He should also do the Kushmanda homa (fire offering). This is the way, from past deeds, that eases heart trouble.
Unit 48.2 names the Prajapatya fast, a gift of a cow and gold, japa and a fire offering.