[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) › 2.25 # Garudapurana 2.25 Garuḍapurāṇa 2.25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [2.25.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.45) — 1 part ### [2.25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 25 śrīviṣṇuruvāca / ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi puruṣastrī vinirṇayam / jīvanvāpi mṛto vāpi pañcavarṣādhiko 'pi vā // > Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 25 / The blessed Viṣṇu said: / Hereafter I shall explain the decision regarding males and females, / whether alive or dead, or whether older than five years. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.2) pūrṇe tu pañcame varṣe pumāṃścaiva pratiṣṭhitaḥ / sarvaindriyāṇi jānāti rūpārūpaviparyayau // > When the fifth year is completed, a male child is indeed established: / he understands all the senses, and the difference between forms and formlessness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.3) pūrvakarmavipākena prāṇināṃ vadhabandhanam / viprādīnantyajānsarvānpāpaṃ mārayati dhruvam // > Due to the maturation of past deeds, living beings suffer slaughter and imprisonment. / Sin certainly causes the death of all, from brāhmaṇas down to the lowest castes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.4) garbhe naṣṭe kriyā nāsti dugdhaṃ deyaṃ mṛte śiśau / paraṃ ca pāyasaṃ kṣīraṃ dadyādvalavipattitaḥ // > When a fetus is destroyed, there is no rite; when a child dies, milk should be given. / Furthermore, according to one's capacity, one should offer rice cooked in milk and pure milk upon death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.5) ekādaśāhaṃ dvādaśāhaṃ vṛṣaṃ vṛṣavidhiṃ vinā / mahādānavihīnaṃ ca kumāre kṛtyamādiśet // > On the eleventh day and twelfth day, one should prescribe the rites for a boy / without the bull-release ceremony and without the great gifts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.6) kumārāṇāṃ caiva bālānāṃ bhojanaṃ vastraveṣṭanam / bāle vā taruṇe vṛddhe ghaṭo bhavati vai mṛte // > Feeding boys and children and wrapping in cloth \[should be done\]. / Whether the deceased is a child, a youth, or an elder, the water-jar is indeed required. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.7) bhūmau viniḥ kṣipedbālaṃ dvimāsonaṃ dvivārṣikam / tataḥ paraṃ khagaśreṣṭha dehadāho vidhoyate // > One should bury in the earth a child who is two months short of two years old. / Beyond that, O best of birds, cremation of the body is prescribed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.8) śiśurā dantajananādbālaḥ syādyāvadāśikham / kathyate sarvaśāstreṣu kumāro mauñjibandhanāt // > He is called a babe until the emergence of teeth, and a child until the crest-tuft \[ceremony\]; / he is declared in all the scriptures to be a boy until the investiture with the sacred cord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.9) śūdrādīnāṃ kathaṃ kuryātsaṃśayo mauñjivarjanāt / garbhācca navamaṃ hitvā śiśurāmāsaṣoḍaśam // > How should one proceed for Śūdras and others, since doubt arises from the absence of the sacred cord? / Omitting the nine months from the womb, he is a babe up to sixteen months; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.10) bālaścātha parañjñeya āmāsasaptaviṃśati / ā pañca varṣātkaumāraḥ paugaṇḍo navahāṃyanaḥ // > thereafter he should be known as a child up to twenty-seven months; / up to five years he is in boyhood; at nine years he is an older boy; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.11) kiśoraḥ ṣoḍaśābdaḥ syāttato yauvanamādiśet / mṛto 'pi pañcame varṣe avṛtaḥ savṛto 'pi vā // > at sixteen years he is an adolescent; after that, one should declare youth. / Even if one dies in the fifth year, whether invested \[with the cord\] or not, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.12) pūrvoktameva kartavyamīhate daśapiṇḍakam / svalpakarmaprasaṅgācca svalpādviṣayabandhanāt // > only that which was previously stated should be done; one seeks the offering of ten rice balls. / Because of the small scope of his actions and his slight bondage to sensory objects, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.13) svalṣādvapuṣi vastrācca kriyāṃ svalpāmapīcchati / yāvadupacayo janturyāvadviṣayaveṣṭitaḥ // > and because of the small size of his body and clothing, he desires only a slight rite. / To whatever degree the creature has developed and is wrapped in sensory objects, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.14) yadyadyasyopajīvyaṃ syāttattaddeyamihecchati / brahmabījodbhavāḥ putrā devarṣoṇāṃ ca vallabhāḥ // > whatever was his means of sustenance in this world, that is desired to be given to him. / Even sons born from the seed of Brahmā and beloved of the divine sages > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.15) yamena yamadūtaiśca śāsyante niścitaṃ khaga / bālo vṛddho yubā vāpi ghaṭamicchanti dehinaḥ // > are definitely judged by Yama and Yama's messengers, O bird. / Whether a child, an elder, or a youth, embodied souls desire the water-jar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.16) sukhaṃ duḥ khaṃ sadā vetti dehī vai sarvagastviha / parityajya tadātmānaṃ jīrṇāṃ tvacamivoragaḥ // > The embodied soul, going everywhere here, always experiences pleasure and pain. / Leaving behind that self \[the physical frame\], as a serpent leaves its sloughed skin, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.17) aṅguṣṭhamātraḥ puruṣo vāyubhṛtaḥ kṣudhānvitaḥ / tasmāddeyāni dānāni mṛte bāle suniścitam // > the person, the size of a thumb, supported by air and afflicted with hunger \[departs\]. / Therefore, gifts must certainly be given when a child dies. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.18) janmataḥ pañca varṣāṇi bhuṅkte dattamasaṃskṛtam / pañcavarṣādhike bāle vipattiryadi jāyate // > For five years from birth, he consumes what is given without ritual consecration. / If death occurs when a child is older than five years, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.19) vṛṣotsargādikaṃ karma sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ vinā / dvādaśe hani samprāpte kuryācchrāddhāni ṣoḍaśa // > \[one should perform\] the rites such as the release of a bull, but without the rite of sapinda-union. / When the twelfth day arrives, one should perform the sixteen śrāddhas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.20) pāyasena guḍenāpi piṇḍāndadyādyathākramam / udakumbhapradānaṃ ca pada (upa) dānāni yāni ca // > One should offer rice balls with milk-rice or raw sugar in due order, / along with the gift of a water-jar and whatever incidental gifts \[are customary\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.21) bhojanāni dvije dadyānmahādānādi śaktitaḥ / dīpadānādi yatkiñcitpañcavarṣādhike sadā // > One should give meals to brāhmaṇas and great gifts according to one's capacity, / as well as the gift of lamps and whatever else, always for one older than five years, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.22) kartavyaṃ ca khagaśreṣṭha vratātprāk pretatṛptaye / yadā nakriyate sarvaṃ mudgalatvaṃ sa gacchati // > and it should be performed, O best of birds, before the rite \[of sacred vows\], for the satisfaction of the deceased. / When all this is not performed, he attains the state of a ghost. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.23) vratātprāṅgeva deyaṃ tu tataḥ pitṛgaṇasya ca / svāhākāreṇa vai kuryādekoddiṣṭāni ṣoḍaśa // > It should be given even before the vow, and thereafter for the host of ancestors; / with the exclamation svāhā, one should perform the sixteen single-purpose offerings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.24) ṛjudarbhaistilaiḥ śuklaiḥ prācīnāvīti niścitam / apasavyaṃ ca kartavyaṃ kṛte yānti parāṃ gatim // > With straight darbha grass, white sesame seeds, the sacred thread worn over the right shoulder, / and made towards the south—when this is performed, they attain the supreme state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.25) punaścirāyuṣo bhūtvā jāyante svakule dhruvam / sarvasaukhyapradaḥ putraḥ pitroḥ prītivivardhanaḥ // > Becoming long-lived once more, they are certainly born in their own lineage: / a son who grants all happiness and increases the joy of his parents. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.26) ākāśamekaṃ hi yathā candrādityau yathaikataḥ / ghaṭādiṣu pṛthak sarvaṃ paśya rūpaṃ ca tatsamam // > For just as space is single, and just as the sun and moon are single, / yet you see their form separate and identical in jars and the like, so it is with this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.27) ātmā tathaiva sarveṣu puttreṣu vicaretsadā / yā yasya prakṛtiḥ pūrvaṃ śukraśoṇitasaṅgame // > Even so the self moves ever in all sons: / whatever disposition a person had originally at the union of semen and blood, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.28) sā (sa) tena bhāvayogena puttrāstatkarmakāriṇaḥ / pitṛrūpaṃ samādāya kasyacijjāyate sutaḥ // > through that connection of feeling, the sons become performers of those very deeds. / Taking on the likeness of the father, the son is born to someone. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.29) pitṛtaḥ ko 'pi rūpāḍhyo guṇajño dānatatparaḥ / sadṛśaḥ ko 'pi loke 'sminna bhūto na bhaviṣyati // > Some \[son\] is endowed with more beauty than his father, discerning in virtues, devoted to generosity; / someone like him in this world has neither been nor shall be. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.30) andhādandho na bhavati mūkānmūko na jāyate / badhirādbadhiro naiva vidyāvānviduṣo na hi / anurūpā na dṛśyante madīyaṃ vacanaṃ śṛṇu // > A blind man is not born from a blind man; a mute is not born from a mute; / a deaf man is not born from a deaf man; and indeed a learned man is not \[necessarily\] born from a scholar. / They are not seen to be exact counterparts; listen to my word: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.31) garuḍa uvāca / aurasakṣetrajādyāśca puttrā daśavidhāḥ smṛtāḥ / saṃgṛhītaḥ suto yastu dāsīputtraśca tena kim // > Garuḍa said: / Ten kinds of sons are remembered, beginning with the legitimate son and the son born of the wife; / but what of him who is an adopted son, and the son of a maidservant? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.32) kāṅkāṃ gatimavāpnoti jāyo mṛtyuvaśaṃ gataḥ / bhavenna duhitā yasya na dauhitro na vā sutaḥ // > What destination does the person attain who has fallen into the power of death, / who has no daughter, no daughter's son, and no son? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.33) śrāddhaṃ tasya kathaṃ kāryaṃ vidhinā kena tadbhavet / śrībhagavānuvāca / mukhaṃ dṛṣṭvā tu putrasya mucyate paitṛkādṛṇāt // > How should his śrāddha be performed, and by what rule should it take place? / The Blessed Lord said: / Indeed, having seen the face of a son, one is freed from debt to the ancestors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.34) pauttrasya darśanājjanturmucyate caḥ ṛṇatrayāt / lokānantyaṃ divaḥ prāptiḥ puttrapauttra prapauttrakaiḥ // > From the sight of a grandson, a creature is freed even from the three debts; / endlessness of worlds and attainment of heaven \[come\] through sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.35) anyakṣetrodbhavādyā ye bhuktimātrapradāḥ sutāḥ / kurvīta pārvaṇaṃ śrāddhamāraiso vidhivatsutaḥ // > Sons born of another's field and the rest, grant only worldly enjoyment; / the legitimate son should perform the pārvaṇa śrāddha according to the prescribed rule. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.36) kurvantyanye sutāḥ śrāddhame koddiṣṭaṃ na pārvaṇam / brāhmoḍhājastūnnayati saṃgṛhītastvadho nayet / śrāddhaṃ sāṃvatsaraṃ kurvañjāyate narakāya vai // > Other sons perform an ekoddiṣṭa śrāddha, not a pārvaṇa. / A son born of a woman married by the Brāhma rite elevates \[the ancestors\], but an adopted one leads them down; / performing the annual śrāddha, he surely turns toward hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.37) sarvadānāni deyāni hyanna dānādṛte khaga / saṃgṛhītaḥ sutaḥ kuryādekoddiṣṭaṃ na pārvaṇam // > All gifts are to be given, O bird, except the gift of food; / an adopted son should perform the ekoddiṣṭa, not the pārvaṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.38) pratyabdaṃ pitṛmātṛbhyāṃ śrāddhaṃ dattvā na lipyate / ekoddiṣṭaṃ parityajya pārvaṇaṃ kurute yadi // > By offering śrāddha every year to father and mother he does not incur sin; / if, abandoning the ekoddiṣṭa, he performs the pārvaṇa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.39) ātmānaṃ ca pitṝṃścaiva sa nayedyamamandiram / saṃgṛhītastu yaḥ keciddāsīputtrādayaśca ye // > he would lead both himself and the ancestors to the abode of Yama. / But those who are adopted, and those who are sons of maidservants and the like, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.40) tīrthe kuryuḥ pitṛśrāddhaṃ dānaṃ (māsaṃ) dadyurdvijanmane / saṃgṛhītasuto bhūtvā pākaṃ vā yaḥ prayacchati // > should perform the ancestral śrāddha at a sacred ford and give gifts to a twice-born. / If an adopted son gives cooked food \[in śrāddha\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.41) vṛthā śrāddhaṃ vijānīyācchūdrānnena yathā dvijaḥ / na prīṇayati tacchrāddhaṃ pitāmahamukhānpitṝn / evaṃ jñātvā svagaśreṣṭha hīnajātīnsutāṃstyajet // > one should know that śrāddha to be in vain, like a twice-born \[eating\] food of a Śūdra; / that śrāddha does not gratify the ancestors headed by the grandfather. / Knowing this, O best of birds, one should abandon sons of low caste. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.42) (brāhmaṇyāṃ brāhmaṇājjātaścāṇḍālādadhamaḥ smṛtaḥ ) / yastu pravrajitājjāto brāhmaṇyāṃ śūdrataśca yaḥ // > One born of an ascetic, and one born from a Śūdra on a Brāhmaṇa woman, / are remembered as lower than a Cāṇḍāla; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.43) dvāvetau viddhi cāṇḍālau sagotrādyastu jāyate / svaryātivihitānputraḥ samutpādya khageśvara // > know both of these, and one born of a woman of the same gotra, to be Cāṇḍālas. / Having begotten sons destined to ascend to heaven, O King of Birds, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.44) taiḥ suvṛttaiḥ sukhaṃ prāpyaṃ kuvṛttairnarakaṃ vrajet / hīnajātisamudbhūtaiḥ suvṛttaiḥ sukhamedhate // > through those of good conduct happiness is to be attained; through those of bad conduct one goes to hell. / Even through those born of low caste who are of good conduct, happiness increases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.45) kalikaluṣavimuktaḥ pūjitaḥ siddhasaṅghairamaracamaramālāvījyamāno 'psarobhiḥ / pitṛśatamapi bandhūnputtrapauttraprapauttrānapi narakanimagnānuddharedeka eva // > Freed from the impurity of the Kali age, worshipped by hosts of Siddhas, fanned with garlands of divine chowries by Apsarases, / he alone can deliver even a hundred ancestors, relatives, and sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons sunk in hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.25.45.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25.45.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe dvitīyāṃśe dhamakāṇḍe pretakalpe śrīkṛṣṇagaruḍasavāde mṛtabālāntyeṣṭibhinnābhinnasutakṛtāntyeṣṭyorvarṇanaṃ nāma pañcaviṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus, in the holy Garuḍa Purāṇa, in the latter section, in the second part, in the section on dharma, in the Pretakalpa, in the dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa, the twenty-fifth chapter, entitled ‘The Description of the Funeral Rites for a Deceased Child and of the Rites Performed by Different Kinds of Sons.’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.25.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Dānakhaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.hemadri.danakhanda.132.p35) — Hemādri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.25) · Pramāṇa