[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) › 2.26 # Garudapurana 2.26 Garuḍapurāṇa 2.26 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [2.26.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.67) — 1 part ### [2.26.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.1) śrīgaruḍamāhapurāṇam- 26 garuḍa uvāca / satyaṃ brūhi suraśreṣṭha kṛpāṃ kṛtvā mayi prabho / mṛtānāṃ caiva jantūnāṃ kadā kuryātsapiṇḍanam // > The holy Garuḍa Purāṇa — \[Chapter\] 26. / Garuḍa said: / Speak the truth, O best of gods, having shown mercy to me, O Lord! / When should one perform the sapiṇḍana for deceased creatures? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.2) sapiṇḍatve kuto yānti asapiṇḍe kuto gatiḥ / kenaiva sahapiṇḍatvaṃ strīpusorvaktumarhasi // > Where do they go when sapiṇḍana is done? Where is the destination when sapiṇḍana is not done? / You ought to tell: with whom is the union of balls of rice made for a woman and for a man? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.3) strīpumāṃśau sahaikatvaṃ pāpnutaḥ kathamuttamam / jīvedbhartari nārīṇāṃ sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ kutaḥ // > How do a woman and a man achieve supreme union together? / How can the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa of women take place while the husband is alive? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.4) bhartṛlokaṃ kathaṃ yānti svargalokaṃ sureśvara / agnyārohe kathaṃ śrāddhaṃ vṛṣotsargaḥ kathaṃ bhavet // > How do they go to the husband's realm or to the realm of heaven, O Lord of gods? / How is the śrāddha performed in the case of self-immolation on the fire? How should the release of a bull be? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.5) ghaṭadānaṃ kathaṃ kāryaṃ sapiṇḍīkaraṇe kṛte / kathayasva prasādena hītāya jagatāṃ prabho // > How should the gift of a water-jar be made once the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa is performed? / Please tell me out of grace, for the benefit of the worlds, O Lord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.6) śrībhagavānuvāca / yathāvatkathayiṣyāmi sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ khaga / varṣaṃ yāvatkhagaśreṣṭha yadācarati mānavaḥ // > The Blessed Lord said: / I shall explain duly the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, O bird. / Whatever a mortal performs for up to a year, O best of birds— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.7) sapiṇḍane tato vṛtte pitṛlokaṃ sa gacchati / tasmātputtreṇa kartavyaṃ sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ pituḥ // > when the sapiṇḍana has then taken place, he goes to the realm of the ancestors. / Therefore, the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa of the father must be performed by the son. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.8) saṃvatsare tu sampūrṇe kuryātpiṇḍa praveśanam / piṇḍapraveśavidhanā tasya nityaṃ mṛtāhnikam // > When a full year is completed, he should perform the merging of the ball of rice; / by virtue of the rule of merging the ball of rice, the anniversary of the day of death becomes an ongoing duty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.9) niścitaṃ pakṣiśārdūla varṣānte piṇḍamelanam / sahapiṇḍe kṛte pretastato yāti parāṃ gatim / tannāma samparityajya tataḥ pitṛgaṇo bhavet // > The joining of the rice ball at the end of a year is settled, O tiger among birds; / when the union of the rice ball is performed, the deceased spirit then goes to the supreme state; / having completely cast off that designation, he then becomes \[one of\] the company of ancestors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.10) tripakṣe vāpi ṣaṇmāse melayetprapitāmahaiḥ / jñātvā vṛddhivivāhādi svagotravihitāni ca // > Or, at three fortnights or six months, he should unite him with the great-grandfathers, / taking into account prosperity-rites, marriages, and other ceremonies ordained for one's own gotra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.11) vivāhaṃ naiva kurvīta mṛte ca gṛhamedhini / bhikṣurbhikṣāṃ na gṛhṇāti yāvatkuryātsapiṇḍanam // > One should not perform a marriage when the householder has died; / a mendicant does not take alms as long as \[the heir\] has not performed the sapiṇḍana. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.12) svagotre 'pyaśucistāvadyāvatpiṇḍaṃ na melayet / melanātpretaśabdastu nivarteta khageśvara // > Even within one's own gotra one is impure so long as one does not merge the rice ball; / from that merging, the term 'preta' ceases, O King of Birds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.13) ānantyātkuladharmāṇāṃ puṃsāñcaivāyuṣaḥ kṣayāt / asthiratvāccharīrasya dvādaśāhaḥ praśasyate // > Because family traditions are manifold, and because the lifespan of men wanes, / and because of the instability of the body, the twelfth day is commended. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.14) niragnikaḥ sāgniko vā dvādaśāhe sapiṇḍayet // > Whether one maintains the sacred fire or maintains no sacred fire, one should perform sapiṇḍana on the twelfth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.15) dvādaśāhe tripakṣe vā ṣaṇmāse vatsare 'pi vā / sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ proktamṛṣibhistattvadarśibhiḥ // > On the twelfth day, or at three fortnights, or at six months, or in a year— / the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa has been declared by the seers who perceive the truth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.16) saputtrasya na kartavyamekoddiṣṭaṃ kadācana / sapiṇḍīkaraṇādūrdhvaṃ yatrayatra pradīyate // > For one who has a son, an ekoddiṣṭa must never be performed; / after the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, wherever \[an offering\] is given, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.17) tatratatra trayaṃ kāryamanyathā pitṛghātakaḥ / tribhiḥ kuryādaśaktaśca pārvaṇaṃ muninoditam // > in every such case it must be performed for three \[ancestors\]; otherwise one is a slayer of the ancestors. / Even if incapable, one should perform the pārvaṇa for the three, as declared by the sage. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.18) taddine taddine kuryātpitāmahamukhānyataḥ / ajñānāddinamāsānāṃ tasmātpārvaṇamiṣyate // > On that day and on that day, one should perform it since it begins with the grandfather; / because of ignorance of the days and months, the pārvaṇa is therefore desired. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.19) anutpannaśarīrasya na dānaṃ pitṛbhiḥ saha / etaiḥ ṣoḍaśabhiḥ śrāddhaiḥ preto muktastu jāyate // > There is no offering together with the ancestors for one whose \[subtle\] body has not been formed; / through these sixteen śrāddhas, the deceased spirit becomes liberated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.20) aputtrasya sapiṇḍatvaṃ naiva kuryātstriyo 'pi vā / yāvajjīva ca sadbhatryā na kuryātsahapiṇḍatām // > For one without a son, one should not perform sapiṇḍana at all, nor for women; / and as long as she lives, a virtuous wife should not perform sapiṇḍana \[with others\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.21) brāhmādiṣu vivāheṣu yā vadhūriha saṃskṛtā / bhartṛgotreṇa kartavyāstasyāḥ piṇḍodakakriyāḥ // > For a bride consecrated here in the Brāhma and other \[approved\] forms of marriage, / the rites of offering rice balls and water must be performed under the husband's clan name; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.22) āsurādivivā heṣu yā vyūḍhā kanyakā bhavet / tasyāstu pitṛgotreṇa kuryātpiṇḍodakakriyāḥ // > but for a maiden married in the Āsura and other \[unapproved\] forms of marriage, / one should perform the rites of offering rice balls and water under the father's clan name. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.23) pituḥ puttreṇa kartavyaṃ sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ sadā / puttrābhāve tu patnī syātpatnyabhāve sahodaraḥ // > The sapiṇḍīkaraṇa rite for a father must always be performed by a son; / in the absence of a son, it may be the wife; in the absence of a wife, a uterine brother, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.24) bhrātā vā bhrātṛputtro vā sapiṇḍaḥ śiṣya eva vā / sapiṇḍanakriyāṃ kṛtvā kuryānnāndīmukhaṃ tataḥ // > a brother, a brother's son, a sapinda, or a disciple. / Having performed the sapiṇḍana rite, one should then perform the nāndīmukha rite. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.25) jyeṣṭhasyaiva kaniṣṭhena bhrātṛputtreṇa bhāryayā / sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ kāryaṃ putrahīne nare khaga // > For a childless man, O Bird, the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa rite / must be performed by a younger brother, a brother's son, or the wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.26) bhrātṝṇāmekajātānāmekaścetputravān bhavet / sarvete tena putreṇa putriṇo manurabravīt // > If among brothers born of the same father even one has a son, / Manu declared all of them to be fathers of sons through that son. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.27) sarveṣāṃ putrahīnānāṃ patnī kuryātsapiṇḍanam / ṛtvijā kārayedvāpi purohitamathāpi vā // > For all childless men, the wife should perform the sapiṇḍana rite, / or she may have it performed by an officiating priest or the family priest. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.28) kṛtacūḍopanītaśca pituḥ śrāddhaṃ samācaret / uccārayetsvadhākāraṃ na tu vedākṣarāṇyasau // > Even if he has \[only\] undergone the tonsure and the investiture, he should perform the father's śrāddha; / he should utter the svadhā-call, but not the syllables of the Veda. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.29) bhartrādibhistribhiḥ kāryaṃ sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ striyāḥ / pitṛvyabhrātṛputreṇa sodareṇa kanīyasā // > The sapīṇḍīkaraṇa of a woman should be performed by the three \[ancestors\] beginning with the husband; / \[or\] by the father's brother, nephew, or younger full brother. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.30) arvāk saṃvatsarātsandhau pūrṇe saṃvatsare 'pi vā / ye sapiṇḍīkṛtāḥ pretāsteṣāṃ na syātpṛthak kriyā // > For those ghosts for whom sapīṇḍīkaraṇa has been performed before a year, at the transition \[period\], or upon the completion of a year, / there should be no separate rite. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.31) sapiṇḍane kṛte vatsa pṛthaktvaṃ tu vigarhitam / yastu kuryātpṛthak piṇḍaṃ pitṛhā so 'bhijāyate // > Once sapiṇḍana is performed, my child, separation is indeed condemned; / whoever offers a separate piṇḍa becomes a killer of his ancestors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.32) sapiṇḍīkaraṇe vṛtte pṛthaktvaṃ nopapadyate / pṛthak piṇḍe kṛte paścātpunaḥ kuryātsapiṇḍanam // > When sapīṇḍīkaraṇa has occurred, separation is not appropriate; / if a separate piṇḍa has subsequently been offered, he should perform sapiṇḍana again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.33) sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ kṛtvā ekoddiṣṭaṃ karoti yaḥ / ātmānaṃ ca tathā pretaṃ sa nayeddamaśāsanam // > Whoever performs an ekoddiṣṭa rite after having performed sapīṇḍīkaraṇa, / leads both himself and the ghost to the realm of punishment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.34) varṣaṃ yāvaktriyā kāryā nāmagotreṇa dhīmatā / ghaṭādi bhojanaṃ nityaṃ padadānāni yāni ca / sapiṇḍīkaraṇe vṛtte ekasyaiva tu dāpayet // > For up to a year the rite should be performed with name and gotra by the wise man: / the daily vessel, food, and the gifts of the steps; / but once sapīṇḍīkaraṇa has occurred, he should have them given to only one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.35) annaṃ pānīyasahitaṃ saṃkhyāṃ kṛtvābdikasya ca / dātavyaṃ brāhmaṇe pakṣiñjalapūrṇaghaṭādikam // > Having counted \[the offerings\] of the annual rite, food together with water, / and a vessel filled with water, O bird, should be given to a brāhmaṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.36) piṇḍānte tasya sakalā varṣavṛttiḥ svaśaktitaḥ / divyadeho vimānasthaḥ sukhaṃ yāti yamālayam // > At the end of the piṇḍa, all his sustenance for the year according to one's capacity \[is provided\]; / having a divine body and seated in a celestial chariot, he goes happily to the abode of Yama. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.37) jīvamāne ca pitari na hi puttre sapiṇḍatā / strīṇāṃ sapiṇḍanaṃ nāsti tathā bhartari jīvati // > While the father is alive, there is no sapiṇḍatā for the son; / likewise, there is no sapiṇḍana for women while the husband is alive. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.38) hutāśaṃ yā samārūḍhā caturthe 'hni pativratā / tasyā bhartṛdine kāryaṃ vṛṣotsargādikaṃ ca yat // > When a devoted wife ascends the fire on the fourth day, / on the day of her husband should be performed whatever \[rites pertain to her\], such as the release of the bull. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.39) puttrikā patigotrā syādadhastātputrajanmanaḥ / putrotpatteḥ parastātsā pitṛgotraṃ vrajetpunaḥ // > An appointed daughter belongs to the husband's gotra before the birth of a son; / after the birth of a son, she returns again to the father's gotra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.40) patipatnyoḥ sadaikatvaṃ hutāśaṃ yādhirohati / putreṇaiva pṛthak śrāddhaṃ kṣayākhye tasya vāsare // > For husband and wife there is always oneness; if she ascends the fire, / the son should perform a separate śrāddha on his day of death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.41) aputtrau cenmṛtau syātāmekacityāṃ same 'hani / pṛthak śrāddhāni kurvīta sāpiḍyaṃ patinā saha // > If they die childless on the same day on one funeral pyre, / he should perform separate śrāddhas, \[but\] sapiṇḍana together with the husband. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.42) pṛthakpṛthak ca piṇḍena dampatī patinā saha / na lipyate mahādoṣairetatsatyaṃ vaco mama // > With separate piṇḍas for the couple, along with the husband, / one is not smeared with great faults; this word of mine is true. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.43) ekacityāṃ samārūḍhau dampatī nidhanaṃ gatau / ekapākaṃ prakurvīta piṇḍāndadyātpṛthakpṛthak // > If a husband and wife have ascended one funeral pyre and met their end, / one should prepare a single cooking, but offer the piṇḍas separately. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.44) ekādaśe vṛṣotsargaṃ pretaśrāddhāni ṣoḍaśa / ghaṭādipadadānāni mahādānāni yāni ca / varṣaṃ yāvatpṛthakkuryātpretastṛptiṃ vrajecciram // > On the eleventh day, the release of the bull, the sixteen preta-śrāddhas, / the gifts of vessels and steps, and the great gifts— / he should perform them separately for a year, so that the ghost attains satisfaction for a long time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.45) ekagotre mṛtānāṃ tu striyā vā puruṣasya vā / sthaṇḍilaṃ caikataḥ kuryāddhomaṃ kuryātpṛthakpṛthak // > For those who have died within the same gotra, whether woman or man, / one should make a single altar, but offer the oblations separately. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.46) ekādaśe 'hni yacchrāddhaṃ pṛthak piṇḍāśca bhojanam / pākairena patistrīṇāmanyeṣāṃ ca vigarhitam // > The śrāddha that is on the eleventh day, the separate piṇḍas and feeding— / with one cooking for husband and wife, but for others it is condemned. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.47) ekenaiva tu pākena śrāddhāni kurute sutaḥ / ekaṃ tu vikiraṃ kuryātpiṇḍāndadyadbahūnapi / tīrthe cāparapakṣe vā candrasūryagrahe 'pi vā // > With only one cooking the son performs the śrāddhas; / he should make a single scatter-offering, but give many piṇḍas / at a sacred ford, during the dark fortnight, or during an eclipse of the moon or the sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.48) nārī bhartāramāsādya kuṇapaṃ dahate yadā / agnirdahati gātrāṇi ātmānaṃ naiva pīḍayet // > When a woman, having reached her husband, burns \[with\] the corpse, / the fire burns the limbs; it does not torment the soul at all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.49) dahyate dhmāyamānānāṃ dhātūnāṃ hi yathā malam / tathā nārī daheddehaṃ hutāśe hyamṛtopame // > Just as the impurity of metals being blown upon is burned away, / so a woman burns away her body in the fire, which is indeed like nectar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.50) divyādau divyadehastu śuddho bhavati pūruṣaḥ / taptatailena lohena vahninā naiva dahyate // > In an ordeal and the like, a person with a divine body becomes pure; / he is not burned at all by heated oil, iron, or fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.51) tathā sā patisaṃyuktā dahyate na kadācana / antarātmā mṛte tasminmṛto 'pyekatvamāgataḥ // > Likewise, she who is united with her husband is never burned; / when he is dead, her inner self, though dead, has attained oneness \[with him\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.52) bhartṛsaṃgaṃ parityajya anyatra mriyate yadi / bhartṛlokaṃ na sā yāti yāvadābhūtasaṃplavam // > If, abandoning union with her husband, she dies elsewhere, / she does not go to the world of her husband until the dissolution of all beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.53) lakṣmīyutānparityajya mātaraṃ pitaraṃ tathā / mṛtaṃ patimanuvrajya sā ciraṃ sukhamedhate // > Abandoning mother and father, endowed though they are with wealth, / and following her dead husband, she rejoices in happiness for a long time. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.54) divyavarṣapramāṇena tisraḥ koṭyor'ddhakoṭayaḥ / tāvatkālaṃ vasetsvarge nakṣatraiḥ saha sarvadā // > For the measure of three and a half crores of divine years, / for that length of time she resides in heaven together with the stars perpetually. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.55) tadante carate loke kule bhavati bhoginām / sā hi labdhamahāprītirbhartrā saha pativratā // > At the end of that, that devoted wife, having attained great affection with her husband, / wanders in the world and is born in a family of enjoyers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.56) evaṃ na kurute nārī dharmoḍhā patisaṃgamam / janmajanmani duḥ khārtāduḥ śīlāpriyavādinī // > A woman lawfully wedded who does not thus join her husband / suffers birth after birth, ill-natured and speaking unpleasant words; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.57) valgulī gṛhasodhā vā godhā vā dvimukhī bhavet / svabhartāraṃ parityajya parapuṃsonuvartinī // > she becomes a bat, a house lizard, an iguana, or a two-headed snake, / having abandoned her own husband and followed another man. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.58) tasmātsarvaprayatnena svapatiṃ strī niṣevate / manasā karmaṇā vācā mṛtaṃ jīvantameva vā // > Therefore, by every effort a woman serves her own husband / in thought, word, and deed, whether he is dead or living. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.59) jīvamāne mṛte vāpi kilbiṣaṃ kurute tu yā / sa ca vaidhavyamāpnoti janmajanmani durbhagā // > The woman who commits a sin against him, whether he is living or dead, / becomes unfortunate and incurs widowhood birth after birth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.60) yaddevebhyo yatpitṛbhyaḥ śraddhayaiva pradīyate / tatphalaṃ bhartṛpūjātaḥ kuryādbhartrarcanaṃ tataḥ // > Whatever fruit is given with faith to the gods and the ancestors / is obtained from worship of the husband; therefore, she should perform the worship of her husband. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.61) evaṃ kṛte khagaśreṣṭha pitṛloke ciraṃ vaset / yāvadādityacandrau ca tāvaddevasamā divi // > When this is done, O best of birds, she dwells in the world of the ancestors for a long time; / as long as the sun and the moon exist, she is equal to the gods in heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.62) punaścirāyuṣo bhūttvā jāyante vipule kule / pativratā yathā nārī bhartṛduḥkhaṃ na vindati // > Then, having become long-lived, they are born into an extensive family; / just as a devoted wife does not experience the sorrow of losing a husband. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.63) sarvametaddhi kathitaṃ mayā tava khageśvara / viśeṣaṃ kathayiṣyāmi mṛtasyaiva sukhapradam // > All this has indeed been told by me to you, O king of birds; / I will tell the specific \[rite\] that grants happiness to the deceased. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.64) dvādaśāhe kṛtaṃ sarvaṃ varṣaṃ yāvatsapiṇḍanam / punaḥ kuryātsadā nityaṃ ghaṭānnaṃ pratimāsikam // > All the sapiṇḍana up to a year having been performed on the twelfth day, / one should perpetually perform anew the monthly pot-and-food offering. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.65) kṛtasya karaṇaṃ nāsti pretakāryādṛte khaga / yaḥ karoti naraḥ kaścitkṛt pūrvaṃ vinaśyati // > There is no redoing of what is done, except for the rite for the dead, O bird; / whatever man performs \[a rite already done\], what was previously done is ruined. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.66) mṛtasyaiva punaḥ kuryātpreto 'kṣayyamavāpnuyāt / pratimāsaṃ ghaṭā deyā sodanā jalapūritāḥ // > For the deceased alone he may perform it again; the preta attains imperishable \[satisfaction\]; / every month pots filled with water and cooked rice should be given. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.67) arvākca vṛddheḥ karaṇācca tārkṣya sapiṇḍanaṃ yaḥ kurute hi putraḥ / tathāpi māsaṃ pratipiṇḍamekamannaṃ ca kumbhaṃ sajalaṃ ca dadyāt // > And if, before the growth \[period\], O Tārkṣya, a son performs sapiṇḍana, / even so he should give one piṇḍa, food, and a jar with water every month. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.26.67.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26.67.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍedvitīyāṃśe dharmakāṇḍe śrīkṛṣṇagaruḍasaṃvāde pretakalpe sapiṇḍananirūpaṇaṃ nāma ṣaḍviṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the twenty-sixth chapter, named 'The Exposition of Sapiṇḍana', in the Pretakalpa, in the Dharmakāṇḍa, in the second section of the latter half of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.26.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (4) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.6.71) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Śrāddhakaumudī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.sraddha.mithila_bengal.sraddhakaumudi.10.p35) — Govindānanda 1500, Sanskrit - [Gūḍhārthadīpikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.nirnaya.gudharthadipika.2.p844) — Vāmadeva, Sanskrit - [Śūdrācāraśiromaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.sudradharma.sudracarasiromani.6.p38) — Kṛṣṇaśeṣa 1520, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.26) · Pramāṇa