[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garudapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › 1.128 # Garudapurana 1.128 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.128 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.128.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.20) — 1 part ### [1.128.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 128 brahmovāca / vratāni vyāsa vakṣyāmi yaistuṣṭaḥ sarvado hariḥ / śāstrodito hi niyamo vrataṃ tacca tapo matam // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 128 / Brahmā said: / I will proclaim the religious observances, Vyāsa, by which Hari, who grants everything, is pleased; / for a restriction prescribed by scripture is a religious observance, and that is considered ascetic heat. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.2) niyamāstu viśeṣāḥ syuḥ vratasyāsya damādayaḥ / nityaṃ triṣavaṇaṃ snāyādadhaḥ śayī jitendriyaḥ // > The specific rules of this religious observance are self-control and the like. / One should bathe constantly at the three junctures of the day, sleep on the ground, with senses subdued. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.3) strīśūdrapatitānāṃ tu varjayedabhibhāṣaṇam / pavitrāṇi ca pañcaiva juhuyāccaiva śaktitaḥ // > One should avoid speaking to women, Śūdras, and outcastes, / and one should offer oblation with the five purifying substances according to one's ability. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.4) kṛcchrāṇyetāni sarvāṇi caretsukṛtavānnaraḥ / keśānāṃ rakṣaṇārthaṃ tu dviguṇaṃ vratamācaret // > A virtuous person should undertake all these penances; / for the sake of preserving the hair, however, one should perform the religious observance twice over. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.5) kāṃsyaṃ māṣaṃ masūraṃ cacaṇakaṃ koradūṣakam / śākaṃ madhu parānnaṃ ca varjayedupavāsavān // > Bell-metal, māṣa beans, lentils, chickpeas, and koradūṣa grain, > greens, honey, and another’s food: one keeping a fast should avoid \[these\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.6) puṣpālaṅkāravastrāṇi dhūpagandhānulepanam / upavāsena duṣyettu dantadhāvanamañjanam // > Flowers, ornaments, garments, incense, fragrant unguents, > cleaning the teeth, and collyrium: these would impair a fast. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.7) dantakāṣṭhaṃ pañcagavyaṃ kṛtvā prātarvrataṃ caret / asakṛjjalapānācca tāmbūlasya ca bhakṣaṇāt // > Having used a tooth-stick and taken the five products of the cow, one should perform the observance in the morning. > From drinking water repeatedly, and from chewing betel, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.8) upavāsaḥ praduṣyeta divāsvapnā kṣamaithunāt / kṣamā satyaṃ dayā dānaṃ śaucamindriyanigrahaḥ // > A fast is impaired, \[as also\] from sleeping by day, gambling, and sexual intercourse. > Forbearance, truthfulness, compassion, generosity, purity, restraint of the senses, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.9) devapūjāgnihavane santoṣosteyameva ca / sarvavrateṣvayaṃ dharmaḥ sāmānyo daśadhāsmṛtaḥ // > Worship of the gods, offering into the sacred fire, contentment, and non-stealing: > this tenfold dharma is traditionally taught as common to all observances. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.10) nakṣatradarśanānnaktamanaktaṃ niśi bhojanam / gomūtraṃ ca pala dadyādardhāṅguṣṭhaṃ tu gomayam // > From the sighting of stars comes the night-fast meal; eating at night is not a night-fast meal. > One should give a pala of cow-urine, and cow-dung the size of half a thumb; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.11) kṣīraṃ saptapalaṃ dadyāddadhnaścaiva palatrayam / ghṛtamekaphalaṃ dadyātpalamekaṃ kuśodakam // > One should give seven palas of milk, and three palas of curds; > one should give one pala of ghee, and one pala of kuśa-grass water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.12) gāyattryā caiva gandheti āpyāyasva dṛ dadhigrahaḥ / tejo 'sīti ca devasya brahmakūrcavrataṃ caret // > With the Gāyatrī, with "Gandhadvārām...", with "Āpyāyasva...", taking the curds with "Dadhikrāvṇo...", > and with "Tejo 'si..." and "Devasya tvā...", one should perform the Brahmakūrca observance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.13) agnyādhānaṃ pratiṣṭhāṃ tu yajñadānavratāni ca / vedavratavṛṣotsargacūḍākaraṇamekhalāḥ // > Setting up the sacred fires, consecration, sacrifices, gifts, and observances, > Vedic observances, releasing a bull, tonsure, the girdle ceremony, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.14) māṅgalyamabhiṣekaṃ ca malamāse vivarjayat / darśāddarśasya cāndraḥ syāttriṃśāhobhistu sāvanaḥ // > Auspicious rites, and royal consecration: one should avoid \[these\] during an intercalary month. > From new moon to new moon is the lunar month; but by thirty solar days is the civil month; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.15) ravisaṃkramaṇātsauro nākṣatraḥ saptaviṃśatiḥ / sauro māso vivāhāya yajñādau sāvanasthitiḥ // > From the sun's ingress \[into a zodiac sign\] is the solar month; the sidereal month consists of twenty-seven \[days\]. > The solar month is for marriage; the civil measure is used in sacrifice and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.16) yugmāgniyugabhūtāni ṣaṇmunyorvasurandhrayoḥ / rudreṇa dvādaśī yuktā caturdaśyātha pūrṇimā // > \[The combination of\] the second and the third, the fourth and the fifth, the sixth and the seventh, the eighth and the ninth, > the twelfth combined with the eleventh, the fourteenth with the full moon, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.17) pratipadyapyamāvāsyā tithyormasyaṃ mahāphalam / etadvyastaṃ mahāghoraṃ hanti puṇyaṃ purā kṛtam // > And the first lunar day combined with the new moon: such harmony of lunar days brings great fruit; > the reverse of this is very dreadful and destroys merit acquired in the past. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.18) prārabdhatapasā strīṇāṃ rajo hanyādvrataṃ na hi / anyairdānādikaṃ kuryātkāyikaṃ svayameva ca // > When an ascetic practice has been undertaken, menses does not destroy a woman's observance; > she should have giving and the like performed by others, and bodily rites by herself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.19) krodhātpramādāllobhādvā vratabhaṅgo bhavedyadi / dinatrayaṃ na bhuñjīta śiraso muṇḍanaṃ bhavet // > If a breach of an observance occurs through anger, negligence, or greed, > one should not eat for three days, and there should be shaving of the head. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.20) asāmarthye śarīrasya putrādīnkārayedvratam / vratasthaṃ mūrchitaṃ vipraṃ jalādīnyanupāyayet // > In the case of bodily incapacity, one should have a son or others perform the observance; > if a twice-born observing a vow faints, one should administer water and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.128.20.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128.20.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe vrataparibhāṣā nāmāṣṭāviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-eighth chapter, entitled "Definitions of Religious Observances," in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section named Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.128.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.128) · Pramāṇa