Garudapurana 1.15

Śrī Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 15
Rudra said:
Reciting what is a man liberated from the dreadful ocean of saṃsāra, O Lord?
Recite that supreme prayer to me, O Janārdana!

Hari said:
Praising the Supreme Lord, the Supreme Brahman, the imperishable Supreme Self,
Viṣṇu, by means of the thousand names, a man becomes liberated.

I shall tell [you] that pure, supreme prayer, O bull-bannered [Śiva]!
Listen with focused attention to that which destroys all sins:

Om. Vāsudeva; Mahāviṣṇu; Vāmana; Vāsava; Vasu;
Resembling the young moon; Child; Balabhadra; Lord of strength;

Binder of Bali; Creator (11); Choice; Knower of the Vedas; Poet;
Maker of the Vedas; Vedas-embodied; What is to be known; Immersed in the Vedas;

Knower of the limbs of the Vedas; Lord of the Vedas (20); Support of strength; Destroyer of strength;
Changeless; Lord of the excellent; Varuṇa; Sovereign of Varuṇa;

Slayer of heroes; Great hero; Praised; Supreme Lord (30);
Self; Supreme Self; Inner Self; Higher than space;

Lotus-navelled; Lotus-treasure; Lotus-handed; Mace-bearer;
Supreme (40); Transcendent; Highest Puruṣa; Lord;

Lotus-shanked; Lotus; Lotus-garland-bearer; Beloved;
Lotus-eyed; Lotus-wombed; Rain-cloud (50); Seated on a lotus;

Boundless; Ultimate reality; Higher than the highest; Sovereign;
Wise; Praised by the wise; Pure; Crusher of sins;

Pure (60); Light-formed; Purifier; Protector;
Free from thirst; Fit for water-offering; Puruṣa; Prakṛti;

Pradhāna; Earth-lotus; Lotus-navelled (70); Granter of what is dear;
Lord of all; Omnipresent; All; All-knowing; All-giving; God;

Abode of the entire universe; All-seeing; Supporter of all (80);
God who shows grace to all; Dwelling in the heart of all beings;

Worshipped by all; Origin of all; Saluted by all gods;
Root of the entire universe; Endowed with parts; Partless; Fire (90).

Protector of all, grounded in all, cause of all causes, / to be meditated upon by all, friend of all, bearing all forms and his own form,

Overseer of all, overseer of the gods, revered by gods and asuras, / the eternal destroyer of the wicked and of the gods, the Ender,

Guardian of truth, possessing a true navel, lord of the perfected, praised by the perfected, / attainable by the perfected, perfected among the perfected, perfected by the attainers, ruler of the heart,

Refuge of the universe, highest good, prosperity, / doer of auspiciousness, beautiful, gentle, truth, of true valour,

Abiding in truth, of true resolve, knower of truth, giver of the true state, / dharma, justice, action, devoid of all action,

The doer of action, action itself, ritual act, the thing to be done, / lord of Śrī, king of men, glorious, lord of all, powerful,

Lord of the gods, praised lord of the Vṛṣṇis, / lord of Hiraṇyagarbha, and lord of the destroyer of Tripura,

Lord of beasts for the most part, lord of the Vasus, / lord of Ākhaṇḍala, and lord of Varuṇa,

Lord of trees, lord of the wind, / lord of fire, and lord of Yama,

Lord of Kubera, lord of the lunar mansions, / lord of medicinal herbs, and lord of trees,

Lord of the serpents, of the sun, and lord of Dakṣa, / lord of friends, and lord of kings,

Lord of the gandharvas, supreme lord of vital breaths, / lord of mountains, and lord of rivers,

Supreme lord of the gods, lord of Kapila, / lord of creepers, and lord of plants,

Lord of sages, supreme lord of the sun, / highest lord of the moon, and lord of Śukra,

Lord of the planets, lord of the rākṣasas, / lord of the kinnaras, supreme lord of the twice-born,

Lord of rivers, lord of the oceans, / lord of lakes, and lord of spirits,

Lord of vetālas, lord of the kūṣmāṇḍas, / supreme lord of birds, and lord of beasts,

Great Self, auspicious, measurable, Mandara, lord of Mandara, / Meru, mother, standard of knowledge, Mādhava, free from impurity,

Wearing a garland, great deity, worshipped by the Great Deity, / immensely peaceful, most fortunate, and slayer of Madhu,

Of great prowess, of great life-force, praised by the sage Mārkaṇḍeya, / embodied in māyā, bound by māyā, yet free from māyā,

Praised by sages, a sage, benevolent, large-nosed, of large jaw, / mighty-armed, greatly restrained, devoid of death,

Large-faced, great self, having a vast body, having a large belly, / having large feet, having a large neck, highly esteemed, great-minded,

Of great course, of great renown, of great form, a great divinity, / Madhu, Mādhava, the Great Deity, the Supreme Lord,

Worshipped through sacrifice, having the form of sacrifice, worthy of honour, lord of sacrifice, / great wind, most fortunate, the great ruler, transcending human nature,

Human, Manu, benefactor of humanity, / deer, worshipped by deer, and lord of deer,

Lord of Budha, lord of Bṛhaspati, / lord of Śanaiścara, and lord of Rāhu and Ketu,

Endowed with marks, sign itself, having protruding lips, playful, / adorned with various ornaments, anointed with various sandalpastes,

Whose face radiates various sentiments, adorned with various flowers, / Rāma, lord of Ramā, accompanied by his consort, Supreme Lord,

Giver of jewels, taker of jewels, possessing form, devoid of form, / having a great form, having a terrible form, and having a gentle form,

Resembling a dark cloud, pure, resembling a sāla-cloud, / smoke-coloured, of foremost hue, having manifold forms, colourless,

Multiform, giver of form, white-coloured, / having all colours, great yogin, sacrifice, and performer of sacrifice,

Having a golden hue, called gold, / having golden limbs, golden, wearing a golden girdle,

Giver of gold, lord of gold, / fond of gold, and rich in gold,

Fair-winged, large-winged, cause of Suparṇa, / Vainateya, Āditya, the beginning, the maker of the beginning, Śiva,

Cause of the intellect, cause of the primordial substance, / cause of faculties of understanding, and cause of the mind,

Cause of consciousness, cause of the ego, / likewise cause of the elements, and cause of fire,

Likewise cause of space, supreme cause of the earth, / cause of the cosmic egg, and cause of nature,

Cause of the body, cause of the eye, / likewise cause of the ear, and cause of the skin,

Cause of the tongue, cause of the vital breath, / likewise cause of the two hands, and cause of the two feet,

Likewise cause of speech, and cause of the organ of excretion, / cause of Indra, and cause of Kubera,

Cause of Yama, and cause of Īśāna, / cause of the yakṣas, and supreme cause of the rakṣasas,

Supreme cause of kings, cause of dharma, / cause of living beings, and supreme cause of the Vasus,

Cause of the Manus, supreme cause of birds, / best cause of sages, supreme cause of yogins,

Cause of the perfected, supreme cause of the yakṣas, / cause of the kinnaras, and cause of the gandharvas,

Cause of rivers, supreme cause of streams, / cause of the oceans, and cause of trees,

Cause of plants, and cause of the worlds, / cause of the netherworld, and cause of the gods,

Cause of serpents, and cause of blessings, / cause of the nourishers, and cause of everything.

He is the Self of the body and the Self of the senses, and likewise the Self that is the intellect; / and likewise the Self of the mind, and the Self of ego and consciousness;

the Self of the waking and sleeping states, the supreme Self of the great principle (mahat); / the supreme Self of the primordial matter (pradhāna), the Self of space and of the waters;

and the supreme Self of earth, and likewise the Self of taste; / the supreme Self of smell, and the supreme Self of form;

and the Self of sound, the Self of speech, the Self of touch, and the Puruṣa; / the Self of the ear, the Self of the skin, and the supreme [Self] of the tongue;

the Self of the nose, the Self of hands, and the supreme Self of feet; / likewise the Self of the genitals, and the supreme Self of the anus;

the Self of Indra, the Self of Brahmā, the Self of Rudra, and of Manu; / the Self of Dakṣa the Prajāpati, the creator-Self of truth, and supreme;

the Self of the Lord, the supreme Self, the fierce Self, the knower of liberation, the ascetic; / possessing effort, and effort itself, shield-bearer, sword-bearer, slayer of Mura;

possessing a modest disposition, devoted to the welfare of ascetics; / having the form of an ascetic, the yogi, the object of meditation for yogis, Hari, dark-complexioned;

consciousness, intelligence, and time, heat, the rains, and thought; / the year, the granter of liberation, and the destroyer of delusion;

the bewilder of the wicked, Māṇḍavya, the submarine fire; / Saṃvarta, the maker of time, Gautama, Bhṛgu, Aṅgiras;

Atri, Vasiṣṭha, Pulaha, Pulastya, and Kutsa; / Yājñavalkya, Devala, Vyāsa, and Parāśara;

the giver of happiness, the son of Gaṅgā, Hṛṣīkeśa, Bṛhacchravas; / Keśava, the destroyer of affliction, having fine ears, devoid of ears;

Nārāyaṇa, the illustrious, the lord of the outgoing breath (prāṇa); / the lord of the downward breath (apāna), and the lord of the diffused breath (vyāna);

the excellent lord of the ascending breath (udāna), and the lord of the equalising breath (samāna); / the excellent lord of sound, and the lord of touch;

the first lord of forms, holding a sword in hand, armed with a ploughshare; / holding a discus in hand, wearing earrings, and marked with the Śrīvatsa;

primordial nature (prakṛti), having the Kaustubha jewel on his neck, wearing yellow garments; / having a pleasant face, having a terrible face, and devoid of a mouth;

infinite, having infinite forms, having fine nails, Mount Mandara of the gods; / having beautiful cheeks, all-pervading, victorious, radiant, and having a quiver;

the slayer of Hiraṇyakaśipu, the crusher of Hiraṇyākṣa; / the slayer of Pūtanā, the destroyer of the end of the sun;

the crusher of Keśin, the smiter of Muṣṭika; / the cleaver of the dānava Kaṃsa, the pounder of Cāṇūra;

the slayer of Ariṣṭa, dear to Akrūra; / Akrūra, having a fierce form, praised by those dear to Akrūra;

the dispeller of prosperity, the blessed Lord, the sun, himself devoted to Viṣṇu; / Uddhava, the lord of Uddhava, meditated upon by Uddhava;

holding the discus, moving, free from the moving and unmoving; / comparable to egoism, thought, sky, earth, water;

wind, eye, ear, tongue, and nose; / swift with speech, hands, and feet, and likewise the anus and genitals;

Śaṅkara, the all, giver of patience, maker of patience, Nara; / dear to devotees, the sustainer, possessing devotion, increaser of devotion;

praised by devotees, devoted to devotees, giver of fame, increaser of fame; / fame, splendour, forgiveness, beauty, the devotee, and supreme compassion;

gift, giver, and maker, dear to the god of gods, pure; / possessed of purity, giver of happiness, liberation, desire, wealth, thousand-footed;

thousand-headed, the physician, and likewise the door to liberation; / the door to procreation, thousand-eyed, and thousand-armed;

Śukra, wearing a fine diadem, Sugrīva, and the Kaustubha jewel; / Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Hayagrīva, and the Boar;

the Fish, Rāma Jāmadagnya, Prahrāda, and Bali; / refuge, eternal, awakened, liberated, bearing a body;

the slayer of Khara and Dūṣaṇa, the crusher of Rāvaṇa; / husband of Sītā, growing, and likewise Bharata;

the slayer of Kumbha and Indrajit, the crusher of Kumbhakarṇa; / the slayer of Narāntaka, the destroyer of Devāntaka;

the slayer of wicked asuras, the enemy of Śambara; / the slayer of Naraka, the destroyer of Triśīrṣas;

the cleaver of the Yamalārjuna trees, benefactor through austerities; / musical instrument, what is played, awakened, giver of boons;

essence, fond of essence, solar, the cutter of the slayer of death; / Agastya, Devala, Nārada, dear to Nārada;

the outgoing breath, downward breath, diffused breath; passion (rajas), purity (sattva), darkness (tamas), autumn; / ascending breath, equalising breath, medicine, and physician;

the unchanging, possessing a pure form, free from all bodies; / devoid of the eye sense-organ, devoid of the organ of speech;

devoid of the hand organ, devoid of both feet; / devoid of anus and genitals, devoid of wind and heat;

devoid of consciousness, devoid of intellect; / free from the mind, devoid of the outgoing breath (prāṇa);

devoid of the downward breath (apāna), devoid of the diffused breath (vyāna); / devoid of the ascending breath (udāna), devoid of the equalising breath (samāna);

devoid of space, devoid of wind; / devoid of fire, devoid of water;

devoid of earth, devoid of sound; / devoid of touch, devoid of all form;

free from passion, devoid of sin; / free from grief, devoid of speech;

devoid of passion (rajas) and the six modifications; / devoid of desire, devoid of anger;

free from greed, devoid of deceit; / subtle, exceedingly subtle, grosser than the gross;

expert, commander of the army, agitator of all; / agitator of primordial nature (prakṛti), agitator of the great principle (mahat);

agitator of the elements, agitator of the intellect; / agitator of the senses, agitator of sensory objects.

The agitator of Brahmā and the agitator of Rudra,
unreachable by the eye and the other [senses], and likewise unreachable by the ear,

not reachable by the skin, the Tortoise, and graspable by the tongue,
unreachable by the organ of smell, and graspable by speech,

unreachable by the hands and unreachable by the feet,
ungraspable by the mind, Hari is graspable by the intellect,

graspable by the ego-intellect, and graspable by thought,
holding a conch in his hand, imperishable, and holding a mace in his hand,

holding the Śārṅga bow in his hand, Kṛṣṇa, the embodiment of knowledge, scorcher of foes,
an ascetic, accessible through knowledge, the knower, and the knower of knowledge,

the object of knowledge, devoid of objects of knowledge, cognition, having the form of consciousness,
existence, what is to be meditated upon, the maker of being, the meditator, the destroyer of worldly existence,

Govinda, the lord of cattle, the cowherd, the giver of pleasure to all the gopīs,
Gopāla, the refuge of cows, full of wisdom, and the supporter of the earth,

Upendra, Nṛsiṃha, Śauri, and Janārdana,
produced from the fire-sticks, the great sun, and likewise of great splendor,

Dāmodara, the three times, the knower of time, free from time,
the three junctures of the day, the Dvāpara age, the Tretā age, the gate of creatures, Trivikrama,

Vikrama, holding a staff in his hand, carrying a single staff, bearing a triple staff,
conciliation, division, and other expedients, having the form of the Sāman, and the singer of the Sāman,

the Sāmaveda, the Atharvaveda, well-acting, of good form,
the knower of the Atharvaveda, and the teacher of the Atharvaveda,

having the form of the Ṛgveda, the Ṛgveda, established in the Ṛgvedas,
the Yajurveda, the knower of the Yajurveda, one-footed,

many-footed, good-footed, and likewise thousand-footed,
four-footed and two-footed, the Smṛti, logic, Yama, the mighty,

the renunciant, renunciation, the four life-stages,
the celibate student, the householder, the forest-dweller, and the mendicant,

the brāhmaṇa, the kṣatriya, the vaiśya, the śūdra, and the caste,
the giver of good conduct, endowed with good conduct, devoid of bad conduct,

liberation, absorbed in the self, the praise, the praiser, and the worshipper,
the object of worship, speech, the instrument, the expressible, and the expresser,

the knower, grammar, the sentence, and the knower of sentences,
accessible through sentences, dweller in holy sites, the holy site, and the knower of holy sites,

the source of holy sites, Sāṅkhya, etymology, the presiding deity,
the praṇava, the lord of the praṇava, praised by the praṇava,

indicated by the praṇava, the Gāyatrī, bearer of the mace,
dweller in the Śālagrāma stone, and the Śālagrāma stone itself,

reclining on the water, reclining in yoga, reclining on Śeṣa, seated on a lotus,
the husband of the earth, the effect, the cause, the supporter of the earth,

Prajāpati, the eternal, the desirable, the desirer, the Virāṭ,
the sovereign, Pūṣan, heaven, standing in a chariot, the charioteer, strength,

wealthy, giver of wealth, fortunate, devoted to the welfare of the Yādavas,
dear to Arjuna, Arjuna, and Bhīma,

prowess, irresistible, skilled in all scriptures,
favored by Sarasvatī, very formidable, and the stealer of the pārijāta flower,

the giver of nectar, the milk-ocean, and milk itself,
the protector of Indra’s son, and the lifter of Govardhana,

the destroyer of Kaṃsa, likewise the mahout, the slayer of the elephant,
pervaded by rays of light, serene, the destroyer of the distress of all the worlds,

the seal, the maker of seals, devoid of all seals,
the embodied soul, abiding in the body, and the ruler of the body,

the hearer, the controller of the ear, what is to be heard, and the hearing,
abiding in the skin, having caused touch, what is to be touched, and touch,

the seer of form, abiding in the eye, and the controller of the eye,
what is to be seen, abiding in the tongue, the taster of flavors, and the controller,

abiding in the nose, maker of smell, the smeller, the controller of the sense of smell,
abiding in speech, the speaker, what is to be spoken, utterance, the controller of speech,

abiding in living beings, the maker of craft, the craft, the controller of the hands,
the guide, the goer, what is to be gone to, and going,

the controller of the feet, receiver of foot-water, the maker of evacuation,
the controller of evacuation, abiding in the generative organ, and pleasure,

the controller of the generative organ, and the maker of its delight,
Śatrughna, Kārtavīrya, and Datta,

benefactor of Alarka, the cutter down of Kārtavīrya,
Kālanemi, Mahānemi, the cloud, and the lord of clouds,

the giver of food, having the form of food, the eater of food, the promoter of food,
the producer of smoke, having the form of smoke, the supreme son of Devakī,

the delight of Devakī, Nanda, dear to Rohiṇī,
dear to Vasudeva, and the son of Vasudeva,

the kettle-drum, having the form of laughter, whose laughter is like flowers,
fond of loud laughter, overseer of all, the perishable and the imperishable,

Acyuta, the lord of Satya, the chosen beloved of Satyā,
the husband of Rukmiṇī, and the lover of Rukmiṇī,

the beloved of the gopīs, of celebrated fame,
Vṛṣākapi, Yama, the secret, the blossom, and Budha,

Rāhu, Ketu, the planet, the crocodile, the one who met the elephant’s trunk,
the slayer of the crocodile, the villager, and the protector,

the kinnara, the siddha, metre, independent,
having universal form, large-eyed, and the slayer of Daityas,

having infinite forms, dwelling in beings, established among gods and Dānavas,
abiding in deep sleep, deep sleep itself, the state, and the end of states,

dwelling in the world, the waker, the waking state,
abiding in dream, the knower of dream, the state of dream, and dream itself,

free from waking, dream, and deep sleep, the Fourth,
consciousness, the form of what is to be known, the individual soul, and the animator,

the lord of the worlds, the controller of the worlds,
dwelling in the netherworld, the netherworld itself, the destroyer of all fevers,

having the form of supreme bliss, the promoter of dharmas,
easy to attain, difficult to attain, devoted to breath-control,

sense-withdrawal, the supporter, the performer of sense-withdrawal,
luster, beauty, brilliance, resembling pure crystal.

Ungraspable, Fair-complexioned, All, Pure, Praised;
Utterance of Vaṣaṭ, Vaṣaṭ, Vauṣaṭ, Svadhā, Svāhā, Pleasure;

Cooker, Delighter, Enjoyer, Knower, Conceiver;
Embodied in knowledge, Embodied in form, Plenitude, Lord of all lords;

River, Nandin, Lord of Nandin, Bhārata, Destroyer of the tree [of transmigration];
Bearer of the discus, Consort of Śrī, and of emperors and kings

the Lord, and of all the gods; Dweller in Dvārakā;
Puṣkara, Presiding deity of Puṣkara, and indeed Puṣkaradvīpa;

Bharata, Progenitor, Produced, Devoid of all forms;
Formless, Causeless, Fearless, Supportless.

Thus has been proclaimed to you, O bull-bannered [Śiva], the thousand names
of the divine Lord Viṣṇu, destroying all sins.

Reciting it with devotion to Viṣṇu, a twice-born achieves the state of Viṣṇu, a kṣatriya attains victory,
a vaiśya gains wealth, and a śūdra happiness.

Thus ends the fifteenth chapter, named 'Exposition of the Praise of the Thousand Names of Śrī Viṣṇu,' in the ritual conduct section, designated the first part of the first section in the glorious and great Garuḍapurāṇa.