[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) › 1.84 # Garudapurana 1.84 Garuḍapurāṇa 1.84 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [1.84.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.48) — 1 part ### [1.84.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 84 brahmovāca / udyatastu gayāṃ gantuṃ śrāddhaṃ kṛtvā vidhānataḥ / vidhāya kārpaṭīviṣaṃ grāmasyāpi pradakṣiṇam // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 84 > Brahmā said: > When prepared to set out for Gayā, one should perform a śrāddha according to rule, > put on the dress of a pilgrim, and also circumambulate the village. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.2) tato grāmāntaraṃ gatvā śrāddhaśeṣasya bhojanam / kṛtvā pradakṣiṇaṃ gacchetpratigrahavivarjitaḥ // > Then, having gone to another village, eaten the remains of the śrāddha, > and performed circumambulation, he should proceed, abstaining from accepting gifts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.3) gṛhāccalitamātrasya gayāyāṃ gamanaṃ prati / svargārohaṇasopānaṃ pitṝṇāṃ tu padepade // > As soon as he sets out from his house towards the journey to Gayā, > at every step there is a step on the stairway ascending to heaven for his ancestors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.4) muṇḍanaṃ copavāsaśca sarvatīrtheṣvayaṃ vidhiḥ / varjayitvā kurukṣetraṃ viśālāṃ virajāṃ gayām // > Tonsure and fasting: this is the rule at all holy places, > with the exception of Kurukṣetra, Viśālā, Virajā, and Gayā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.5) divā ca sarvadā rātrau gayāyāṃ śrāddhakṛdbhavet / vārāṇasyāṃ kṛtaṃ śrāddhaṃ tīrthe śoṇanade tathā // > By day and always by night, one may perform śrāddha at Gayā; > so too śrāddha performed at Vārāṇasī and at the pilgrimage place on the river Śoṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.6) punaḥ punāmahānadyāṃ śrāddhī svargaṃ pitṝnnayet / uttaraṃ mānasaṃ gatvā siddhiṃ prāpnotyanuttamām // > Again and again on the Mahānadī, the performer of śrāddha leads his ancestors to heaven; > and going to Uttaramānasa, he attains supreme accomplishment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.7) tasminnivartayecchrāddhaṃ snānaṃ caiva nivartayet / kāmānsa labhate divyānmokṣopāyaṃ ca sarvaśaḥ // > There he should perform śrāddha, and he should also perform bathing; > he obtains heavenly desires and every means to liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.8) dakṣiṇaṃ mānasaṃ gatvā maunī piṇḍādi kārayet / ṛṇatrayāpākaraṇaṃ labheddakṣiṇamānase // > Going to Dakṣiṇamānasa, silent, he should offer piṇḍas and the like; > at Dakṣiṇamānasa he obtains the discharge of the three debts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.9) siddhānāṃ prītijananaiḥ pāpānāṃ ca bhayaṅkaraiḥ / lelihānairmahāghorairakṣataiḥ pannagottamaiḥ // > Which causes delight to the perfected ones and terror to sins, > with very dreadful, uninjured supreme serpents darting their tongues, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.10) nāmnā kanakhalaṃ tīrthaṃ triṣu lokeṣu viśrutam / udīcyāṃ muṇḍapṛṣṭhasya devarṣigaṇasevitam // > is the holy place Kanakhala by name, famous in the three worlds, > to the north of Muṇḍapṛṣṭha, resorted to by hosts of divine sages. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.11) tatra snātvā divaṃ yāti śrāddhaṃ dattamathākṣayam / sūryaṃ natvā tvidaṃ kuryātkṛtapiṇḍādisatkriyaḥ // > Bathing there, he goes to heaven, and the śrāddha offered there is imperishable. > Having bowed down to Sūrya, he should perform this after completing the rites such as offering piṇḍas: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.12) kavyavāhastathā somo yamaścaivāryamā tathā / agniṣvāttā barhiṣadaḥ somapāḥ pidṛdevatāḥ // > "Kavyavāha, Soma, Yama, and Aryaman, > the Agniṣvāttas, the Barhiṣads, the Somapās, the deities of the ancestors— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.13) āgacchantu mahābhāgā yuṣamābhī rakṣitāstviha / madīyāḥ pitaro ye ca kule jātāḥ sanābhayaḥ // > may these exalted ones, protected by you here, arrive! > And my own ancestors who were born into my family as blood relations, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.14) teṣāṃ piṇḍapradānārthamāgato 'smi gayāmimām / kṛtapiṇḍaḥ phalgutīrthe paśyaiddevaṃ pitāmaham // > to offer piṇḍas for them I have come to this Gayā." > Having offered the piṇḍa at Phalgutīrtha, he should behold the god Pitāmaha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.15) gadādharaṃ tataḥ paśyetpitṝṇāmanṛṇāmanṛṇo bhavet / phalgutīrthe naraḥ snātvā dṛṣṭvā devaṃ gadādharam // > Then he should behold Gadādhara, and he will become free of debt to the ancestors. > Bathing at Phalgutīrtha and beholding the god Gadādhara, a man > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.16) ātmānaṃ tārayetsadyo daśa pūrvāndaśāparān / prathamehnividhiḥ prokto dvitīyadivase vrajet // > instantly delivers himself, ten generations before him, and ten generations after. > The rule for the first day has been spoken; on the second day he should go > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.17) dharmāraṇyaṃ mataṅgasya vāpyāṃ piṇḍādikṛdbhavet / dharmāraṇyaṃ samāsādya vājapeyaphalaṃ labhet // > to Dharmāraṇya and offer piṇḍas and the like at Mataṅga's pool; > having reached Dharmāraṇya, he obtains the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.18) rājasūyāśvamedhābhyāṃ phalaṃ syādbrahmatīrthake / śrāddhaṃ piṇḍodakaṃ kāryaṃ madhye vai kūpayūpayoḥ // > The reward of both a Rājasūya and an Aśvamedha sacrifice is obtained at Brahmatīrthaka; > śrāddha and water for piṇḍas must be offered between the well and the sacrificial post. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.19) kūpodakena tatkāryaṃ pitṝṇāṃ dattamakṣayam / tṛtīye 'bahni brahmasado gatvā snātvātha tarpaṇam // > That rite must be performed with water from the well, given imperishably to the ancestors. > On the third day, having gone to Brahmasadas, having bathed, and having offered libations, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.20) kṛtvā śrāddhādikaṃ piṇḍaṃ madhye vai yūpakūpayoḥ / gopracārasamīpasthā ābrahma brahmakalpitāḥ // > and having performed rites such as śrāddha and the piṇḍa between the sacrificial post and the well, > \[he should honor\] those established by Brahmā from the beginning of creation, situated near Gopracāra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.21) teṣā sevanamātreṇa pitaro mokṣagāminaḥ / yūpaṃ pradakṣiṇīkṛtya vājapeyaphalaṃ labhet // > By merely serving them, the ancestors attain liberation. > Having circumambulated the sacrificial post, he obtains the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.22) phalgutīrthe caturthe 'hini snātvā devāditarpaṇam / kṛtvā śrāddhaṅgayāśīrṣe kuryādrudrapadādiṣu // > Having bathed at Phalgutīrtha on the fourth day and made libations to the gods and others, > he should perform śrāddha at Gayāśīrṣa, on Rudrapada and other sacred spots. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.23) piṇāḍāndehimukhe vyāse pañcāgnau ca padatraye / sūryendukārtikeyeṣu kṛtaṃ śrāddhaṃ tathākṣayam // > Offering piṇḍas at Dehimukha, Vyāsa, Pañcāgni, and the three footprints, > at Sūrya, Indu, and Kārtikeya, the śrāddha performed becomes imperishable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.24) śrāddhaṃ tu navadevatyaṃ kuryāddvādaśadaivatam / anvaṣṭakāsu vṛddhau ca gayāyāṃ mṛtavāsare // > One should perform a śrāddha dedicated to nine deities, or dedicated to twelve deities, > on the Anvaṣṭakā days, on occasions of prosperity, at Gayā, and on the anniversary of death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.25) atra mātuḥ pṛthak śrāddhamanyatra patinā saha / snātvā daśāśvamedhe tu dṛṣṭvā devaṃ pitāmaham // > Here, a separate śrāddha is performed for the mother, but elsewhere along with her husband. > Having bathed at Daśāśvamedha and beheld the god Pitāmaha, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.26) rudrapādaṃ naraḥ spṛṣṭvā na cehāvartate punaḥ / trirvittapūrṇāṃ pṛthivīṃ dattvā yatphalamāpnuyāt // > a man who touches Rudrapāda does not return here again. > Whatever reward one obtains by giving the earth filled with wealth three times, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.27) sa tatphalamavāpnoti kṛtvā śrāddhaṃ gayāśire / śamīpatrapramāṇena piṇḍaṃ dadyādgayāśire // > he obtains that same reward by performing śrāddha at Gayāśira. > One should offer a piṇḍa the size of a śamī leaf at Gayāśira; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.28) pitaro yānti devatvaṃ nātra kāryā vicāraṇā / muṇḍapṛṣṭe padaṃ nyastaṃ mahādevena dhīmatā // > the ancestors attain godhood; no doubt should be entertained on this point. > The footprint was placed on Muṇḍapṛṣṭha by the wise Mahādeva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.29) alpena tapasā tatra mahāpuṇyamavāpnuyāt / gayāśīrṣe tu yaḥ piṇḍānnāmnā yeṣāṃ tu nirvapet // > There, through slight austerity, he attains great merit. > And on Gayāśīrṣa, in whose name soever one offers piṇḍas, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.30) narakasthā divaṃ yānti svargasthā mokṣamāpnuyuḥ / pañcame 'hni gandālole snātvā vaṭatale tataḥ // > those residing in hell go to heaven, and those residing in heaven attain liberation. > On the fifth day, having bathed at Gandālola, then under the banyan tree > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.31) piṇḍāndadyātpitṝṇāṃ ca sakalaṃ tārayetkulam / vaṭamūlaṃ samāsādya śākenoṣṇodakena vā // > he should offer piṇḍas to the ancestors and deliver his entire lineage. > Having approached the root of the banyan tree, with greens or with hot water, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.32) ekasmin bhojite vipra koṭirbhavati bhojitāḥ / kṛte śrāddhe 'kṣayavaṭe dṛṣṭvā ca prapitāmaham // > when one brāhmaṇa is fed, ten million are fed. > When the śrāddha is performed at the Akṣayavaṭa and having beheld Prapitāmaha, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.33) akṣayāllaṃbhate lokānkulānāmuddharecchatam / eṣṭavyā bahavaḥ puttrā yadyeko 'pi gayāṃ vrajet // > he attains imperishable worlds and redeems a hundred lineages. > Many sons should be desired, in case even one might go to Gayā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.34) yajeta vāśvamedhena nīlaṃ vā vṛṣamutsṛjet / pretaḥ kaścitsamuddiśya vaṇijaṃ kañcidabravīt // > or might perform the Aśvamedha sacrifice, or release a dark bull. > A certain ghost, addressing a certain merchant, said: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.35) mama nāmnā gayāśīrṣe piṇḍanirvapaṇaṃ kuru / pretabhāvādvimuktaḥ syāṃsvargado dātureva ca // > "In my name make an offering of piṇḍas at Gayāśīrṣa! > I would be freed from the ghostly state, and I would bestow heaven on the giver." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.36) śrutvā vaṇiggayāśīrṣa pretarājāya piṇḍakam / pradadāvanujaiḥ sārdhaṃ svapitṛbhyastato dadau // > Hearing \[this\], the merchant offered a funeral ball to the King of the Dead at Gayāśīrṣa / together with his younger brothers; then he offered \[it\] to his own ancestors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.37) sarve muktā viśālo 'pi saputro 'bhucca piṇḍadaḥ / viśālāyāṃ viśālo 'bhūdrājaputrobravīddvijān // > All were liberated, and Viśāla also became a father, having offered funeral balls. / In Viśālā, a prince named Viśāla had spoken to the twice-born: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.38) kathaṃ putrādayaḥ syurme viprāścoturviśālakam / gayāyāṃ piṇḍadānena tava sarvaṃ bhaviṣyati // > “How may sons and so on be born to me?” And the brāhmaṇas replied to Viśāla: / “By offering funeral balls at Gayā, all will come to pass for you.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.39) viśālo 'tha gayāśīrṣa piṇḍado 'bhūcca putravān / dṛṣṭvākāśe sitaṃ raktaṃ kṛṣṇaṃ puruṣamabravīt // > Then Viśāla offered funeral balls at Gayāśīrṣa and obtained sons. / Having seen in the sky a white, a red, and a black man, he spoke: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.40) ke yūyaṃ teṣu caivaikaḥ sitaḥ proce viśālakam / ahaṃ sitaste janaka indralokaṃ gataḥ śabham // > “Who are you?” And among them, the white one said to Viśāla: / “I, the white one, am your father, gone to the auspicious realm of Indra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.41) mama putra pitā rakto brahmahā pāpakṛtparam / ayaṃ pitāmahaḥ kṛṣṇa ṛṣayo 'nena ghātitāḥ // > O my son, the red one is my father, a killer of a brāhmaṇa who committed great sins; / this black one is my grandfather, by whom sages were slain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.42) avīciṃ narakaṃ prāptau muktau jātau ca piṇḍada / muktīkṛtāstataḥ sarve vrajāmaḥ svargamuttamam // > The two had reached the hell Avīci, but have become liberated, O giver of funeral balls! / Being all freed thereby, we are going to the supreme heaven.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.43) kṛtakṛtyo viśālo 'pi rājyaṃ kṛtvā divaṃ yayau / ye 'smatkule tu pitaro luptapiṇḍodakakriyāḥ // > Viśāla too, having accomplished his aim, ruled the kingdom and went to heaven. / “Whatever ancestors in our family have lacked rites of funeral ball and libation water, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.44) ye cāpyakṛtacūḍāstu ye ca garbhādviniḥsṛtāḥ / yeṣāṃ dāho na kriyāca ye 'gnidagdhāstathāpare // > and those whose tonsure was not performed, and those who perished from the womb, / those for whom cremation and rites were not performed, and others who were burned by fire— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.45) bhūmau dattena tṛpyantu tṛptā yāntu parāṃ gatim / pitā pitāmahaścaiva tathaiva prapitāmahaḥ // > may they be satisfied by what is offered on the earth, and satisfied, may they attain the supreme goal! / Father, grandfather, and likewise great-grandfather; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.46) mātā pitāmahī caiva tathaiva prapitāmahī / tathā mātāmahaścaiva pramātāmaha eva ca // > mother, paternal grandmother, and likewise paternal great-grandmother; / likewise maternal grandfather and maternal great-grandfather; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.47) vṛddhapramātāmahaśca tathā mātāmahī param / pramātāmahī tathā vṛddhapramātāmahīti vai // > maternal great-great-grandfather, and furthermore maternal grandmother, / maternal great-grandmother, and likewise maternal great-great-grandmother— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.48) anyeṣāṃ caiva piṇḍo 'yamakṣayyamupatiṣṭhatām // > and for others as well, may this funeral ball remain imperishable!” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.84.48.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.48.p1) iti śrāgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe pūrvakhaṇḍe prathamāṃśākhye ācārakāṇḍe gayāmāhātmyaṃ nāma caturaśītitamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the eighty-fourth chapter, named ‘The Glory of Gayā’, in the Conduct Section of the first part in the first section of the glorious and great Garuḍa Purāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (5) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.115.41) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Prāṇatoṣiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.pranatosini.5.7.354) — Rāmatoṣaṇa Śarman 1796, Sanskrit - [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.2.48.12) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Tīrthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.tirtha.tirthaprakasa.4.p253) — Mitramiśra, Sanskrit - [Tristhalīsetu (Nārāyaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.tirtha.tristhali.tristhalisetu.15.p3) — Nārāyaṇa (Mahiṣamaṅgalam) 1513, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84) · Pramāṇa