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# Garudapurana 1.42

Garuḍapurāṇa 1.42

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [1.42.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.25) — 1 part

### [1.42.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.1)

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 42  
hariruvāca /  
pavitrāropaṇaṃ vakṣye sivasyāśivanāśanam /  
ācāryaḥ sādhakaḥ kuryātputrakaḥ samayī hara //

> Hari said: / I shall state the investing with the pavitra sacred thread of Śiva, which destroys inauspiciousness. / The ācārya, the sādhaka, the putraka, or the samayin should perform it, O Hara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.2)

saṃvatsarakṛtāṃ pūjāṃ vighneśo harate 'nyathā /  
āṣāḍhe śrāvaṇe māghe kuryādbhādrapade 'pi vā //

> Otherwise the Lord of Obstacles steals away the worship performed for a year. / One should perform it in Āṣāḍha, Śrāvaṇa, Māgha, or in Bhādrapada.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.3)

sauvarṇaraupyatāmraṃ ca sūtraṃ kārpāsikaṃ kramāt /  
jñeyaṃ kujādau saṃgrāhyaṃ kanyayā kartitaṃ ca yat //

> Gold, silver, copper, and cotton thread in order / are to be known \[for castes\], gathered on Mars's day or the like, and spun by an unmarried maiden.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.4)

triguṇaṃ triguṇīkṛtya tataḥ kuryātpavitrakam /  
granthayo vāmadevena satyena kṣālayecchiva //

> Tripling it three times, he should then make the pavitra thread. / The knots \[are made\] with the Vāmadeva mantra, and he should wash it with the Sadyojāta mantra, O Śiva.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.5)

aghoreṇa tu saṃśodhya baddhastatpuruṣādbhavet /  
dhūpayedīśamantreṇa tantudevā iti (me) smṛtāḥ //

> Purified with the Aghora mantra, it should be tied with the Tatpuruṣa mantra; / he should perfume it with the Īśāna mantra. These are remembered as the deities of the strands:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.6)

oṃ kāraścandramā vahnirbrahnā nāgaḥ śikhidhvajaḥ /  
ravirviṣṇuḥ śivaḥ proktaḥ kramāttantuṣu devatāḥ //

> the syllable Oṃ, the Moon, Fire, Brahmā, the Serpent, the peacock-bannered god, / the Sun, Viṣṇu, and Śiva are declared to be the deities on the strands in order.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.7)

aṣṭottaraśataṃ kuryātpañcāśatpañcaviṃśatim /  
rudro 'ttamādi vijñeyaṃ mānaṃ ca granthayo daśa //

> He should make one of a hundred and eight \[threads\], fifty, or twenty-five; / Rudra is to be known as the highest, and the measure of knots is ten.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.8)

caturaṅgulāntarāḥ syurgranthināmāni ca kramāt /  
prakṛtiḥ pauruṣī vīrā caturtho cāparājitā //

> They should be separated by four finger-breadths; and the names of the knots in order: / Prakṛti, Pauruṣī, Vīrā, and fourth Aparājitā,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.9)

jayā ca vijayā rudrā ajitā ca sadāśivā /  
manonmanī sarvamukhī dvyaṅgulāṅgulato 'thavā //

> Jayā, Vijayā, Rudrā, Ajitā, Sadāśivā, / Manonmanī, Sarvamukhī, or else by two finger-breadths or one finger-breadth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.10)

rañjayetkuṅkumādyaistu kuryādrandhaiḥ pavitrakam /  
saptamyāṃ vā trayodaśyāṃ śuklapakṣe tathetare //

> He should color it with saffron and other substances, and make a perforated pavitra thread. / On the seventh or the thirteenth day in the bright fortnight, or likewise in the other.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.11)

kṣīrādibhiśca saṃsnāpya liṅgaṃ gandhādibhiryajet /  
dadyādrandhapavitraṃ tu ātmane brahmaṇe hara //

> Having bathed the liṅga with milk and other liquids, he should worship it with perfumes and the rest; / he should offer the perforated pavitra thread to the Self, to Brahman, O Hara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.12)

puṣpaṃ gandhayutaṃ dadyānmūleneśānagocare /  
pūrve ca daṇḍakāṣṭhaṃ tu uttare cāmalakīphalam //

> He should offer a flower accompanied by perfume with the root mantra in the sphere of Īśāna; / in the east, a wooden staff, and in the north, an āmalakī fruit;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.13)

mṛttikāṃ paścime dadyāddakṣiṇe bhasma bhūtayaḥ /  
nairṛtehyaguruṃ dadyācchikhāmantreṇa mantravit //

> in the west, he should give clay, \[and\] in the south, ashes for prosperity; / in the south-west, the knower of mantras should offer agallochum with the śikhā mantra;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.14)

vāyavyāṃ sarṣapaṃ dadyātkavacena vṛṣadhvaja /  
gṛhaṃ saṃveṣṭya sūtreṇa dadyādrandhapavitrakam //

> in the north-west, he should give mustard seed with the kavaca mantra, O bull-bannered god. / Encompassing the house with thread, he should present the perforated pavitra thread.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.15)

homaṃ kṛtvā gneya dattvā dadyādbhūtabaliṃ tathā /  
āmantrito 'si deveśa gaṇaiḥ sārdhaṃ maheśvara //

> Having performed a fire offering in the south-east and made \[offerings\], he should then offer a bali oblation to the beings: / “You are invited, O Lord of the gods, along with your retinues, O Maheśvara!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.16)

prātastvāṃ pūjayiṣyāmi atra sannihito bhava /  
nimantryānena tiṣṭhettu kurvan gītādikaṃ niśi //

> In the morning I shall worship you; be present here.” / Having invited him with this, he should stay awake, performing singing and the like during the night.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.17)

mantritāni pavitrāṇi sthāpayeddevapārśvataḥ /  
snātvādityaṃ caturdaśyāṃ prāgrudraṃ ca prapūjayet //

> He should place the consecrated pavitra threads beside the god. / Having bathed, on the fourteenth day he should worship Aditya, and first Rudra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.18)

lalāṭasthaṃ viśvarūpaṃ dhyātvātmānaṃ prapūjayet /  
astreṇa prokṣitānyevaṃ hṛdayenārcitānyatha //

> Having meditated on the universal form situated on the forehead, he should worship himself. / Thus sprinkled with the astra mantra, and then worshiped with the hṛdaya mantra,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.19)

saṃhitāmantritānyeva dhūpitāni samarpayet /  
śivatattvātmakaṃ cādau vidyātattvātmakaṃ tataḥ //

> consecrated with the Saṃhitā mantras, perfumed with incense, he should offer them: / first that consisting of the Śiva principle, then that consisting of the Vidyā principle,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.20)

ātmatattvātmakaṃ paścāddevakākhyaṃ tator'cayet /  
oṃ hauṃ hauṃ śivatattvāya namaḥ /  
oṃ hīṃ(hīḥ) vidyātattvāya namaḥ //

> then that consisting of the Ātman principle, and after that he should worship the one called the god: / “Oṃ hauṃ hauṃ, homage to the Śiva principle! / Oṃ hīṃ, homage to the Vidyā principle!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.21)

oṃ hāṃ (hauḥ) ātmatattvāya namaḥ /  
oṃ hāṃ hīṃ hūṃ kṣaiṃ sarvatattvāya namaḥ /  
kālātmanā tvayā deva yaddṛṣṭaṃ māmake vidhau //

> Oṃ hāṃ, homage to the Ātman principle! / Oṃ hāṃ hīṃ hūṃ kṣaiṃ, homage to all principles! / O God, what was seen by you as the embodiment of Time in my rite…”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.22)

kṛtaṃ kliṣṭaṃ samutsṛṣṭaṃ hutaṃ gupta ca yatkṛtam /  
sarvātmanātmanā śambho pavitreṇa tvadicchayā //

> Whatever has been performed, troubled, left unfinished, offered into fire, or hidden, / by your will, O Śambhu, by means of the purifier, with one's whole self —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.23)

pūrayapūraya makhavrataṃ tanniyameśvarāya sarvatattvātmakāya sarvakāraṇapālitāya oṃ hāṃ hīṃ hūṃ haiṃ hauṃ śivāya namaḥ //

> Fulfill, fulfill the sacrificial observance! To that lord of rules, whose self is all principles, who is protected by all causes: oṃ hāṃ hīṃ hūṃ haiṃ hauṃ, obeisance to Śiva!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.24)

pūrvairanena yo dadyātpavitrāṇāṃ catuṣṭayam /  
dattvā vahneḥ (vare) pavitraṃ ca gurave dakṣiṇāṃ diśet //

> One who, with the preceding \[mantras\], would offer four purifiers, / having offered the purifier to the fire, should bestow the sacrificial fee upon the guru.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.25)

baliṃ dattvā dvijān bhojya caṇḍaṃ prācyai visarjayet //

> Having offered the oblation and fed the twice-born, one should dismiss Caṇḍa toward the east.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.42.25.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.25.p1)

iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe śivapavitrāropaṇaṃ nāma dvicatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

> Thus ends the forty-second chapter, entitled 'The Investing with the Purifier of Śiva', in the Ritual Section named the First Part of the First Section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.1) — English, machine translation

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