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# Garudapurana 1.107

Garuḍapurāṇa 1.107

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [1.107.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.39) — 1 part

### [1.107.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.1)

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 107  
sūta uvāca /  
parāśaro 'bravīdvyāsaṃ dharmaṃ varṇāśramādikam /  
kalpekalpe kṣayotpattyā kṣīyante nu prajādayaḥ //

> The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 107. / Sūta said: / Parāśara spoke to Vyāsa on the dharma of castes and life-stages and so forth: / 'Through destruction and creation, kalpa by kalpa, created beings and the rest surely decline.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.2)

śrutiḥ smṛtiḥ sadācaro yaḥ kaścidve dakartṛkaḥ /  
vedāḥ smṛtā brāhmaṇādau dharmā manvādibhiḥ sadā //

> Revelation, tradition, virtuous conduct, and whatever has the Veda as its author; / the Vedas and the dharmas were constantly remembered by Manu and others for the brāhmaṇa and the rest.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.3)

dānaṃ kaliyuge dharmaḥ kartāraṃ ca kalau tyajet /  
pāpakṛtyaṃ tu tatraiva śāpaṃ phalati varṣataḥ //

> Giving is the dharma in the Kali age, and one should abandon the agent \[of evil\] in the Kali age; / a sinful deed \[bears fruit\] right then and there; a curse bears fruit within a year.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.4)

ācārātprāpnuyātsarvaṃ ṣaṭ karmāṇi dinedine /  
sandhyā snānaṃ japo homo devātithyādipūjanam //

> One may attain everything from proper conduct: the six duties day by day— / the twilight devotions, bathing, recitation, oblation, and the worship of gods, guests, and the rest.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.5)

apūrvaḥ suvratī vipro hyapūrvā yatayastadā /  
kṣattriyaḥ parasainyāni jitvā pṛthvīṃ prapālayet //

> Unprecedented is the brāhmaṇa who keeps good vows, and unprecedented then are ascetics. / A kṣatriya should conquer hostile armies and protect the earth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.6)

vaṇik kṛṣyādi vaiśye syāddvijabhaktiśca śūdrake /  
abhakṣyabhakṣaṇāccauryādagamyā gamanātpatet //

> Trade, agriculture, and the like belong to the vaiśya, and devotion to the twice-born to the śūdra. / One falls through eating what should not be eaten, through theft, and through approaching women who must not be approached.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.7)

kṛṣiṃ kurvandvijaḥ śrāntaṃ balīvardaṃ na vāhayet /  
dinārdhaṃ snānayogādikārī viprāṃśca bhojayet //

> A twice-born doing agriculture should not harness an exhausted ox. / Spending half the day in bathing, yoga, and so forth, he should feed brāhmaṇas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.8)

nirvapetpañca yajñāni krūre nindāṃ ca kārayet /  
tilājyaṃ na vikrīṇita sūnāyajñamaghānvitaḥ //

> He should offer the five sacrifices and censure cruelty. / He should not sell sesame and clarified butter, \[otherwise\] he incurs sin through the sacrifice of slaughter.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.9)

rājño dattvā tu ṣaḍbhāgaṃ devatānāṃ ca viṃśatim /  
trayastriṃśacca viprāṇāṃ kṛṣikartā na lipyate //

> Having given a sixth share to the king, a twentieth to the deities, / and a thirty-third to brāhmaṇas, the farmer is not tainted.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.10)

karṣakāḥ kṣattraviṭchūdrāḥ khale 'dattvā tu caurakaḥ /  
dinatrayeṇa śudhyeta brāhmaṇaḥ pretasūtake //

> Kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, and śūdras are cultivators; not giving at the threshing floor, one is a thief. / A brāhmaṇa is purified in three days in death-impurity,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.11)

kṣattro daśāhādvaiśyāstu dvādaśāhānmāsi śūdrakaḥ /  
yāti vipro daśāhāttu kṣattro dvādaśakāddināt //

> a kṣatriya in ten days, vaiśyas in twelve days, and a śūdra in a month. / \[Or\] a brāhmaṇa attains \[purity\] in ten days, a kṣatriya from the twelfth day,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.12)

pañcadaśāhādvaiśyastu śūdro māsena śudhyati /  
ekapiṇḍāstu dāyādāḥ pṛthagdvāraniketanāḥ //

> a vaiśya in fifteen days, and a śūdra is purified in a month. / Agnates who share the funeral cake, though having separate doors and dwellings,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.13)

janmanā ca vipattau ca bhavetteṣāṃ ca sūtakam /  
caturthe daśarātraṃ syātṣaṇṇiśāḥ puṃsi pañcame //

> incur impurity both at birth and at death. / For the fourth \[generation\] it is ten nights; for the fifth, six nights for a man;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.14)

ṣaṣṭhe catura hācchuddhiḥ saptame ca dinatrayam /  
deśāntare mṛte bāle sadyaḥ śuddhiryato mṛte //

> for the sixth, purification comes after four days; and for the seventh, three days. / When a child dies in another country, purification is immediate, from the moment he died.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.15)

ajātadantā ye bālā ye ca garbhādviniḥ sṛtāḥ /  
na teṣāmagnisaṃskāro na piṇḍaṃ nodakakriyā //

> Those children whose teeth have not erupted and those who have issued from the womb / have no cremation, no funeral cake, and no libation of water.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.16)

yadi garbho vipadyata stravate vāpi yoṣitaḥ /  
yāvanmāsaṃ sthito garbhastāvaddināni sūtakam //

> If a woman’s embryo perishes or miscarries, / the days of impurity are as many as the months the embryo remained.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.17)

ānāmakaraṇātsadya ācūḍāntādaharniśam /  
āvratāttu trirātreṇa tadūrdhvandaśabhirdinaiḥ //

> Up to the naming ceremony, it is immediate; up to tonsure, a day and night; / up to the investiture of vows, three nights; beyond that, ten days.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.18)

ācaturthādbhavetstravaḥ pātaḥ pañcamaṣaṣṭhayoḥ /  
brahmacaryā dagnihotrānnāśuddhiḥ saṅgavarjanāt //

> Up to the fourth \[month\] it is miscarriage; in the fifth and sixth, abortion. / Due to celibacy and the agnihotra, there is no impurity, because association is avoided.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.19)

śilpinaḥ kāravo vaidyā dāsīdāsāśca bhṛtyakāḥ /  
agnimāñchrotriyo rājā sadyaḥ śaucāḥ prakīrtitāḥ //

> Artisans, craftsmen, physicians, maidservants, manservants, and attendants, / one who maintains the sacred fire, a Śrotriya, and a king are proclaimed to be immediately pure.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.20)

daśāhācchudhyate mātā snānātsūte pitā śuciḥ /  
saṅgātsūtau sūtakaṃ syādupaspṛśya pitā śuciḥ //

> The mother is purified in ten days; upon birth, the father is pure by bathing. / From touch during childbirth there is impurity; having sipped water, the father is pure.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.21)

vivāhotsavayajñeṣu antarā mṛtasūtake /  
pūrvasaṃkalpitādanyavarjanaṃ ca vidhīyate //

> At marriages, festivals, and sacrifices, if a death or birth impurity intervenes, / the avoidance of anything other than what was previously resolved is prescribed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.22)

mṛtena śudhyate sūtiḥ mṛtavajjātakaṃ janau /  
gograhādau vipannānāmekarātraṃ tu sūtakam //

> A birth \[impurity\] is purified by a death \[impurity\]; a birth is like a death at child-delivery. / For those who have died in cattle raids and the like, the impurity is only for one night.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.23)

anāthapretavahanātprāṇāyāmena śudhyati /  
pretaśūdrasya vahanāntrirātramaśucirbhavet //

> From carrying a destitute corpse, one is purified by breath-control. / From carrying a deceased śūdra, one remains impure for three nights.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.24)

ātmaghātiviṣodvandhakṛmidaṣṭe na saṃskṛtiḥ /  
gohataṃ kṛmidaṣṭaṃ ca spṛṣṭvā kṛcchreṇa śudhyati //

> For suicides, those dead from poison, hanging, or insect-bites, there is no funeral rite. / Having touched one killed by a cow or bitten by insects, one is purified by the kṛcchra penance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.25)

aduṣṭāpatitaṃ bhāryā yauvane yā parityajet /  
saptajanma bhavetstrītvaṃ vaidhavyaṃ ca punaḥ punaḥ //

> A wife who abandons her blameless, unfallen husband in youth / will be born as a woman for seven births and suffer widowhood again and again.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.26)

bālahatyā tvagamanādṛtau ca strī tu sūkari /  
agamyā vratakāriṇyo bhraṣṭapānodakakriyāḥ //

> By non-approach during the season, the killing of an infant \[is incurred\]; and the woman becomes a sow. / Forbidden to be approached are women observing vows, and those for whom the offering of water has ceased.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.27)

aurasaḥ kṣetrajaḥ putraḥ pitṛjau piṇḍadau pituḥ /  
parivittestu kṛcchraṃ syātkanyāyāḥ kṛcchrameva ca //

> The body-born son and the son of the wife, born of the father, offer the funeral cake to the father. / A kṛcchra penance is prescribed for a younger brother who marries before his elder, and a kṛcchra for the maiden;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.28)

atikṛcchraṃ careddātā hotā cāndrāyaṇañcaret /  
kubjavāmanaṣaṇḍeṣu gadgadeṣu jaḍeṣu ca //

> the giver must perform an atikṛcchra penance, and the priest must perform a cāndrāyaṇa penance. / In the case of hunchbacks, dwarfs, eunuchs, stammerers, and idiots,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.29)

jātyandhabadhire mūke na doṣaḥ parivedane /  
naṣṭe mṛte pravrajite klībe vā patite patau //

> those blind from birth, the deaf, and the mute, there is no fault in marrying before the elder. / When the husband is lost, dead, has become an ascetic, is impotent, or is fallen,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.30)

pañcasvāpatsu nārīṇāṃ patiranyo vidhīyate /  
bhartrā sahamṛtā nārī romābdāni vaseddivi //

> in these five misfortunes another husband is ordained for women. / A woman who dies with her husband will dwell in heaven for as many years as there are body hairs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.31)

śvādidaṣṭastu gāyattryā japācchuddho bhavennaraḥ /  
dāhyo lokāgninā vipraścāṇḍālādyairhato 'gnimān //

> A man bitten by a dog and the like becomes pure by reciting the Gāyatrī. / A brāhmaṇa maintaining the sacred fire, if killed by cāṇḍālas and the like, should be burned with ordinary fire;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.32)

kṣīraiḥ prakṣālya tasyāsthi svāgninā mantrato dahet /  
pravāse tu mṛte bhūyaḥ kṛtvā kuśamayaṃ dahet //

> having washed his bones with milk, one should burn them with his own sacred fire according to the mantra. / But if he dies while abroad, one should make an effigy of kuśa grass and burn it again.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.33)

kṛṣṇājine samāstīrya ṣaṭ śatāni palāśajān /  
śamīṃ śiśre viniḥ kṣipya araṇiṃ vṛṣaṇe kṣipet //

> Having spread a black buckskin \[and\] six hundred \[twigs\] of palāśa,  
> placing the śamī wood on the penis, one should place the fire-drill upon the testicles.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.34)

kaṇḍaṃ dakṣiṇahaste tu vāmahaste tathopabhṛt /  
pārśve tūlūkhalaṃ dadyātpṛṣṭhe tu musalaṃ dadet //

> The kaṇḍa on the right hand, and likewise the upabhṛt in the left hand;  
> one should place the mortar at the side, and the pestle upon the back.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.35)

ure niḥ kṣipya dṛṣadaṃ taṇḍulājyatilānmukhe /  
śrotra ca prokṣaṇīṃ dādyadājyasthālīṃ ca cakṣuṣoḥ //

> Having placed the grinding stone on the chest, \[and\] rice-grains, ghee, and sesame in the mouth,  
> one should place the sprinkling ladle at the ears, and the ghee-pan at the eyes.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.36)

karṇe netre mukhe ghrāṇe hiraṇyaśakalān kṣipet /  
agnihotropakaraṇādbrahmalokagatirbhavet //

> One should place pieces of gold in the ears, eyes, mouth, and nostrils.  
> By means of the implements of the agnihotra, one attains the world of Brahmā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.37)

asau svargāya lokāya svāhetyājyāhutiḥ sakṛt /  
haṃsasārasakrauñcānāṃ cakravākaṃ ca kukruṭam //

> "Svāhā to this heaven-world": thus \[making\] an offering of ghee once.  
> \[For killing\] geese, sārasa cranes, krauñca cranes, cakravākas, and cocks,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.38)

mayarameṣaghātī ca ahorātreṇa śudhyati /  
pakṣiṇaḥ sakalānhatvā ahorātreṇa śudhyati //

> and a killer of peacocks and sheep becomes purified in a day and a night.  
> Having killed all \[kinds of\] birds, one becomes purified in a day and a night.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.39)

sarvāṃścatuṣpadānhatvā ahorātro ṣito japet /  
śūdraṃ hatvā caretkṛcchramatikṛcchraṃ tu vaiśyahā /  
kṣattraṃ cāndrāyaṇaṃ vipraṃ dvāviṃśātriṃśamāhare (vahe) t //

> Having killed any four-footed animal, one should fast and chant for a day and a night.  
> Having killed a śūdra, one should perform a kṛcchra penance; but the killer of a vaiśya \[should perform\] an atikṛcchra;  
> \[for killing\] a kṣatriya, a cāndrāyaṇa; \[for killing\] a brāhmaṇa, one should undertake \[a penance\] of thirty-two \[years\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.107.39.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.107.39.p1)

iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākye ācārakāṇḍe parāśaroktadharmanirūpaṇaṃ nāma saptottaraśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the one hundred and seventh chapter, entitled "Exposition of the Dharma Spoken by Parāśara", in the section on conduct, in the first part called the first section, in the venerable and great Garuḍa Purāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.107.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (6)

- [Parāśarasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.parasara.3.9) — Parāśara, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtīnāṃ Samuccayaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.smrtisamuccaya.2.105) — Sanskrit
- [Daśanirṇaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.dasanirnaya.5.p45) — Veṅkaṭanātha Vaidikasārvabhauma, Sanskrit
- [Saṃskāraratnamālā (Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.samskara.samskararatnamala.39.1.9) — Gopīnātha Dīkṣita Oka, Sanskrit
- [Śūdrakamalākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.jati.sudrakamalakara.39.1-30) — Kamalākarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Smṛtiviveka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.smrtiviveka.16.48) — Śūlapāṇi, Sanskrit

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