Garudapurana 1.194

The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa—194.
Hari said:
I shall proclaim the auspicious Vaiṣṇava armour that dispels all diseases, / by which protection was afforded to Śambhu of old as he destroyed the daityas:

Having bowed to the Lord, the Ruler, unborn, eternal, free from affliction, / the god Viṣṇu, Lord of all, all-pervading and imperishable,

I bind the protective amulet, having bowed down to Janārdana— / all-infallible, matchless, dispelling all suffering:

May Viṣṇu protect me in front, may Kṛṣṇa protect me from behind, / may Hari protect my head, and Janārdana my heart.

May Hṛṣīkeśa protect my mind, may Keśava protect my tongue, / may Vāsudeva protect my eyes, and the all-pervading Saṅkarṣaṇa my ears.

May Pradyumna protect my nose, and Aniruddha my skin; / may Vanamālin protect the top of my neck, and may the Śrīvatsa protect below.

May the discus, warder of daityas, protect my left flank, / and the divine mace, repellent of all asuras, my right.

May the pestle protect my belly, may the plough protect my back, / may Śārṅga protect me above, and may Nandaka protect my shanks.

May the conch protect my heels, and the lotus both my feet; / for the accomplishment of all aims and deeds, may Garuḍa protect me always.

May the Boar protect me in water, and Vāmana in rough terrain, / Narasiṃha in the forest, and Keśava on every side.

May the Lord Hiraṇyagarbha grant me gold; / may Kapila, teacher of the Sāṅkhya, balance my bodily humours.

May the Unborn resident of Śvetadvīpa lead me to Śvetadvīpa; / may the crusher of Madhu and Kaiṭabha slay all my enemies.

May Viṣṇu continually remove sin from my body; / may the Swan, the Fish, and the Tortoise protect me in every direction.

May the god Trivikrama cut down all my sins; / likewise, may the god Nārāyaṇa preserve my intellect.

May Śeṣa produce pure knowledge for me, destroying ignorance; / may the Submarine Fire destroy whatever defilement I have done.

May the Lord bestow supreme happiness on my feet and head; / may Datta make me rich with sons, cattle, and kin.

May Rāma destroy all my enemies with his axe; / may the mighty-armed son of Daśaratha, slayer of rākṣasas, protect me always.

May Rāma, delight of the Yādavas, strike my enemies with his plough; / may the childhood form of Kṛṣṇa—slayer of Pralamba, Keśin, Cāṇūra, Pūtanā, and Kaṃsa—grant me my desires.

Terrified with fear, I behold a man, dread as utter darkness, / dark and reddish-brown, like Death holding a noose in his hand.

Then I have taken refuge with the lotus-eyed, infallible Lord; / blessed am I, ever fearless, who have the Lord Hari.

Having meditated upon the god Nārāyaṇa, destroyer of all afflictions, / and bound on the Vaiṣṇava armour, I roam the surface of the earth.

I am invulnerable to beings, indeed comprising all the gods, / through remembering the God of gods, Viṣṇu of boundless splendour.

May success be mine always, according as the mantra has been recited! / Whoever looks upon me with his eyes, and whomever I look upon with my eye, / may Viṣṇu blind the eyes of all those wicked with evil.

The spokes of Vāsudeva’s discus: / may they sever my sins, and may they destroy those who injure me!

Among rākṣasas and piśācas, in desolate wastes and forests, / in disputes, on the royal highways, in gambling, and in quarrels,

In crossing a dangerous river, when peril to life has arrived, / during assaults of fire and thieves, and in averting all planetary afflictions,

In agitation from lightning, snakes, or poison, in sickness, and in times of obstacles, / one should constantly mutter this recitation when fear has come to the body.

This is the mantra of the Lord, supreme and great among mantras, / renowned as the secret armour that destroys all sins, / created through his own power of māyā, profound and vast until the end of the aeon.

O one without beginning or end! O seed of the universe! O Padmanābha! Homage be to you! / Oṃ, svāhā to Kāla! Oṃ, svāhā to Kālapuruṣa! Oṃ, svāhā to Kṛṣṇa! / Oṃ, svāhā to the one whose form is Kṛṣṇa! Oṃ, svāhā to Caṇḍa! Oṃ, svāhā to the one whose form is Caṇḍa! / Oṃ, svāhā to Pracaṇḍa! Oṃ, svāhā to the one whose form is Pracaṇḍa! Oṃ, svāhā to Sarva! / Oṃ, svāhā to the one whose form is Sarva! Oṃ, homage to the Lord of the worlds, the supporter of the three worlds! Iha viṭi siviṭi siviṭi svāhā! Oṃ, homage to Ayokheti! Ye ye, subdue! Render this body wholesome for me against daityas, dānavas, yakṣas, rākṣasas, bhūtas, piśācas, kūṣmāṇḍas, ending with epilepsy, vomiting, difficult-to-cure conditions, quotidian, tertian, quartan, and intermittent fevers, day-fevers, night-fevers, twilight-fevers, all kinds of fevers, and spiders, insects, thistles, pūtanās, serpents, inanimate and animate poisons! Sphuṭa sphuṭa sphuṭa prakoṭa laphaṭa, O one with dreadful fangs, protect from the east! Oṃ hai hai hai hai, struck down by the time of a thousand suns, be victorious, protect from the west! Oṃ nivi nivi, O great Kapila with the appearance of ablaze burning fire, protect from the north! Oṃ vili vili mili mili garuḍi garuḍi, let Gāurī, Gāndhārī enchant the venomous poison, svāhā! Protect from the south, look upon me, protect, protect from all dangers and afflictions of creatures! Jaya, jaya, vijaya! By him the enemy's terror born of pride is dispelled, from the dispeller of fear let fearlessness be granted by Acyuta! / Let them enter his entire belly, countless like thousands of yuga-cycles, as the rays enter the setting sun. / May Vāsudeva, Saṃkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha, / Viṣṇu, Nārāyaṇa, and Hari slay all my fevers.

Thus ends the one hundred and ninety-fourth chapter, entitled “Instruction on the Vaiṣṇava Armour,” in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.