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Vira Simhavaloka · Chapter 92
प्रदर-योनिदोष — कर्मविपाकः
This Pradara karmavipaka chapter links trouble in a woman's life to a past-life harm done to a child. It describes the gift of a gold sacred thread, washed, honoured and given with homa to a priest.
Classical view, not medical advice.
Later units give fasts and japa for Pradara and Yonidosha.
The English below is our translation from the Sanskrit.
Next, the cause of pradara (heavy menstrual flow) in karmavipaka (fruit of past deeds) is told.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
स्रवद्गर्भा भवेत्सा तु बालकं हंति या पुरा ॥
Next, on miscarriage, Bodhayana says: a woman who killed a child in the past may suffer miscarriage.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
वायुपुराणेयज्ञोपवीतं कुर्वीत कांचनं तु स्वशक्तितः ।अत्यंतवर्णयुक्तं तद्राजतं चोत्तरीयकम् ॥
From the Vayu Purana: one should make a gold sacred thread, as far as one's means allow, of very fine colour. The upper cloth should be of silver.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
पलार्द्धेन तदर्द्धेन तदर्द्धार्द्धेन वा पुनः ।ग्रंथिप्रदेशे देयं तु मौक्तिकं वज्रमेव वा ॥
It should weigh half a pala (weight unit of about 48 grams). Or it may weigh half of that, or half again. At the knot he should set a pearl or a diamond.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
प्रक्षाल्य पंचगव्येन गायत्र्या ताम्रभाजने ।यामप्रमाणं तस्मिंश्च निक्षिपेद्दधिमध्यतः ॥
He should wash it in a copper vessel with the five cow products and the gayatri (gayatri mantra). He should keep it in the middle of curds for one yama (three-hour part of the day).
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
आज्यस्योपरिसंस्थाप्य चोपवीतं सुपूजितम् ॥गंधपुष्पाक्षतैर्धूपैर्नैवेद्यैश्च स्वशक्तितः ।ततो ब्राह्मणमाहूय होमं तत्र च कारयेत् ॥
He should place the well-honoured thread on ghee. He should honour it with scent, flowers, whole rice, incense and food offerings, as his means allow. Then he should call a brahmana (priest) and have a homa (fire offering) done there.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
तिलैराज्येन मधुना मिश्रैरष्टोत्तरं शतम् ।तस्मै हुतवते देयं वस्त्राद्यैः पूजिताय तु ॥
The homa (fire offering) uses sesame, ghee and honey mixed, 108 times. The brahmana (priest) who did the homa should be honoured with cloth and the like. Then the thread should be given to him.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
मंत्रेणानेन विधिवत्प्राङ्मुखाय समंत्रकम् ।उपवीतं परमिदं ब्रह्मणा विहितं पुरा ॥भवते कांचनं दत्वा गर्भं संधारये ह्यहम् ।
He should give it by the rules to a brahmana (priest) facing east, with this mantra: "This is the highest sacred thread, made long ago by Brahma. Giving you this gold, may I hold the child in my womb."
This is the mantra for the dana (gift). At that time he should also give other things to brahmanas.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
अनुव्रज्य तथाचार्यं प्रणिपत्य क्षमापयेत् ॥गर्भस्रावभवाद्दोषादेवं कृत्वा विमुच्यते ।
She should walk behind the teacher, bow to him and ask his forgiveness. The text says that by doing so she is freed from the fault born of miscarriage.
This ends the rite of giving a sacred thread in miscarriage.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
अथ पूर्वजन्मनि पित्रा मात्रा गुरुणा वा सार्धं स्पर्धते सा प्रदररोगिणी भवति । साकृच्छ्रातिकृच्छ्रं कुर्याच्चांद्रायणानि च कुर्यात् ।
Next: in a past life, a woman may have rivalled her father, her mother or her teacher. She may suffer pradara (heavy menstrual flow). She should do krichchhra (penance fast) and the harder atikrichchhra, and the chandrayana (moon-phase fasts).
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
तद्विष्णोरिति मंत्रं जपेत् । अयुत त्रयम् आज्यसहितं मधु मंडकान्नं दद्यात् । विप्रपादक्षालितोदकेन संमार्जयेत् । विप्रोच्छिष्टेनानुलिंपेत् । या इत्थमाचरति तस्या अवश्यं चिकित्सायां रोगो नश्यति ।
She should do japa (repeating a mantra) of the Vedic mantra that begins "tad vishnoh", thirty thousand times. She should give honey and mandaka bread (a thin flat bread) with ghee. She should wash herself with the water that has washed the feet of a brahmana (priest). She should rub on herself a brahmana's leftover food. The text says that for a woman who does so, the illness surely goes when it is treated.
Pradara (heavy menstrual flow) - past deeds
यथोक्ते तु व्रते चीर्णे यथोक्तफलभाग्भवेत् ।
When the vow is done as told, one gets the fruit that is told.
From the words of the Pitamaha Samhita, this should be seen as true for a man too. This ends the rite that removes the pradara (heavy menstrual flow) illness.
Yonidosha (womb trouble) - past deeds
अथ स्त्रीणां योनिदोषे कर्मविपाके हेतुमाह तत्प्रतीकारं च ॥
Next, the cause of womb trouble in women in karmavipaka (fruit of past deeds), and its remedy, are told.
Yonidosha (womb trouble) - past deeds
मृते भर्तरि या नारी ब्रह्मचर्यविघातिनी ।सा भवेद्व्रणदोषेण संभोगं क्षमते न तु ॥
A woman who breaks her vow of chastity when her husband dies may get a fault of sores. She cannot bear love-making.
Yonidosha (womb trouble) - past deeds
संभोगानंतरं तीव्रवेदना पुरुषस्य तु ।सा नीलवृषभान्दद्यान्मधुसर्पिस्तिलानपि दद्यात् ।
After love-making the man feels sharp pain. She should give blue bulls. She should also give honey, ghee and sesame.
This ends the rite that removes womb trouble.
Unit 92.5 says it is washed in a copper vessel with five cow products and the gayatri, then kept in curds for one yama.