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# Garudapurana 2.36

Garuḍapurāṇa 2.36

- **Language:** Sanskrit

## Contents

- [2.36.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.37) — 1 part

### [2.36.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.1)

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 36  
tārkṣyauvāca /  
kasmādanaśanaṃ puṇyamakṣayyagatidāyakam /  
svagṛhantu parityajya tīrthe vai mriyate yadi //

> The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—36. / Tārkṣya said: / Why is fasting \[unto death\] meritorious and the bestower of an imperishable state, / if, having abandoned one's own home, one dies indeed at a sacred place?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.2)

aprāpya tīrthaṃ mriyate gṛhe vā mṛtyu māgataḥ /  
būtvā kuṭīcaro yastu sa kāṃ gatimavāpnuyāt //

> If, failing to reach a sacred place, he dies, or if death comes to him at home, / what state does he attain who has become a hut-dwelling ascetic?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.3)

saṃnyāsaṃ kurute yastu tīrthe vāpi gṛhe 'pi vā /  
kathaṃ tasya prakartavyamaprāptanidhane 'pi vā //

> He who takes renunciation either at a sacred place or even at home, / how should it be done for him, even if he has not met his death?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.4)

niyame cet kṛte deva cittabhaṅgo hi jāyate /  
kena tasya bhavet siddhiḥ kṛtenāpyakṛtena vā //

> If mental faltering occurs after an observance has been made, O Lord, / through what does his accomplishment come about, whether through doing it or not doing it?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.5)

śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca /  
kṛtvā niraśanaṃ yo vai mṛtyumāpnoti ko 'pi cet /  
mānupīṃ tanumutsṛjya mama tulyo virājate //

> The Holy Kṛṣṇa said: / If anyone indeed meets death after undertaking fasting \[unto death\], / discarding the human body, he shines equal to me.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.6)

yāvantyahāni jīvet vrate niraśane kṛte /  
kratubhistāni tulyāni samagravadakṣiṇaiḥ //

> As many days as he may live once the fast has been undertaken, / they are equal to sacrifices complete with sacrificial fees.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.7)

tīrthe gṛhe vā saṃnyāsaṃ nītvā cenmriyate yadi /  
pratyahaṃ labhate so 'pi pūrvoktaṃ dviguṇaṃ phalam //

> If he dies having adopted renunciation either at a sacred place or at home, / he too obtains every day double the aforementioned fruit.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.8)

mahārogopapattau ca gṛhīte 'naśane kṛte /  
punarna jāyate rogo devavaddhi virājate //

> When severe disease arises, and fasting \[unto death\] is adopted and performed, / disease does not arise again, and he truly shines like a god.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.9)

ya āturaḥ san sannyāsaṃ gṛhṇāti yadi mānavaḥ /  
punarna jāyate bhūmau saṃsāre duḥ khasāgare //

> If a man takes renunciation when he is afflicted, / he is not born again on earth in this cyclic existence, the ocean of sorrow.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.10)

ahanyahani dātavyaṃ brāhmaṇānāñca bhojanam /  
tilapātraṃ yathāśakti dīpadānaṃ surārcanam //

> Day after day, feeding of brāhmaṇas should be given, / a vessel of sesame according to one's capacity, the gift of a lamp, and worship of the gods.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.11)

evaṃ vṛttasya dahyante pāpānyuccāvacāni ca /  
mṛto muktimavāpnoti yathā sarve maharṣayaḥ //

> For one of such conduct, sins both high and low are burned away; / upon death, he attains liberation just like all the great sages.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.12)

tasmādanaśanaṃ nṝṇāṃ vaikuṇṭhapadadāyakam /  
tasmāt svasthe cottare vā sādhayenmokṣalakṣaṇam //

> Therefore fasting \[unto death\] grants the abode of Vaikuṇṭha to mortals; / therefore, whether healthy or at the very end, one should accomplish the mark of liberation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.13)

puttradravyādi santyajya tīrthaṃ vrajati yo naraḥ /  
brahmādyā devatāstasya bhaveyustuṣṭipuṣṭidāḥ //

> The man who abandons sons, wealth, and other things and departs for a sacred place, / for him the deities beginning with Brahmā become granters of contentment and prosperity.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.14)

yastīrthasaṃmukho bhūtvā vrate hyanaśane kṛte /  
cenmriyetāntarāle 'pi ṛṣīṇāṃ maṇḍale vaset //

> He who turns toward a sacred place, having undertaken the vow of fasting \[unto death\], / should he die even along the way, he dwells in the realm of the sages.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.15)

vrataṃ niraśana kṛtvā svagṛhe 'pi mṛto yadi /  
svakulāni parityajya ekākī vicareddivi //

> If, having undertaken the vow of fasting \[unto death\], he dies even in his own home, / leaving his families behind, he wanders alone in heaven.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.16)

annañcaiva tathā toyaṃ parityajya naro yadi /  
pītamatpādatoyaśca na punarjāyate kṣitau //

> If a man gives up food and water in this manner, / and has drunk the water of my feet, he is not born again on earth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.17)

kṛttyāsīnantattīrthagataṃ rakṣanti vanadevatāḥ /  
yamadūtā viśeṣeṇa na yāmyāstasya pārśvagāḥ //

> Forest deities protect him who has gone to that sacred place and sits upon an animal skin; / the messengers of Yama, in particular, do not approach his side.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.18)

tīrthasevī naro yastu sarvakilbiṣavarjitaḥ /  
tatra mriyate dahyeta tattīrthaphalabhāgbhavet //

> The man who attends on a sacred place, freed from all sins, / if he dies or is cremated there, he shares in the fruit of that sacred place.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.19)

sevite 'pi sadā tathi hyanyatra mriyate yadi /  
śubhe deśe kule dhīmān sa bhavedvedaviddvijaḥ //

> Even if he constantly visits it, should he die elsewhere, / that wise man becomes a Veda-knowing twice-born in an auspicious land and family.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.20)

kṛtvā niraśanaṃ tārkṣya punarjīvati mānavaḥ /  
brāhmaṇān sa samāhūya sarvasvaṃ yat parityajet //

> If a man lives on after having undertaken fasting \[unto death\], O Tārkṣya, / he should summon brāhmaṇas and give away all his possessions.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.21)

cāndrāyaṇaṃ caret kṛtsnamanujñātaśca tairdvijaiḥ /  
anṛtaṃ na vadet paścāddharmameva samācaret //

> He should perform the complete cāndrāyaṇa fast, permitted by those twice-born; / thereafter he must not speak untruth, and should practice only dharma.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.22)

tīrthe gatvā ca yaḥ ko 'pi punarāyāti vai gṛham /  
anujñātaḥ sa vai vipraiḥ prāyaścittamathācaret //

> And whoever, having gone to a sacred place, comes back to his home, / he, permitted by the brāhmaṇas, should then perform an expiation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.23)

dattvā vā svarṇadānāni go-mahī-gaja-vājinaḥ /  
tīrthaṃ yadi labhed yastu mṛtyukāle sa bhāgyavān //

> Or having given gifts of gold, cattle, land, elephants, and horses, / if he reaches a sacred place at the time of death, he is fortunate.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.24)

gṛhāt pracalitastīrthaṃ maraṇe samupasthite /  
padepade tu godānaṃ yadi hiṃsā na jāyate //

> Having set out from home for a sacred place when death is at hand, / at every step there is the gift of a cow, provided no injury occurs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.25)

gṛhe tu yat kṛtaṃ pāpaṃ tīrthasnānena śudhyati /  
kurute tatra pāpañcedvajralepasamaṃ hi tat //

> The sin that was committed at home is purified by bathing at a sacred place; / but if one commits a sin there, it is indeed like a coating of diamond.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.26)

kliśyet sa nātra sandeho yāvaccandrārkatārakam /  
tatra dattāni dānāni jāyante cākṣayāṇi vai //

> He would suffer, there is no doubt about this, as long as the moon, sun, and stars endure; / yet gifts given there truly become imperishable.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.27)

āture sati dātavyaṃ nirdhanairapi mānavaiḥ /  
gāvastilā hiraṇyañca saptadhānyaṃ viśeṣataḥ //

> When afflicted, gifts must be given even by impoverished men: / cows, sesame, gold, and especially the seven grains.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.28)

dānavantaṃ naraṃ dṛṣṭvā hṛṣṭāḥ sarve divaukasaḥ /  
ṛṣibhiḥ saha dharmaṇa citraguptena sarvadā //

> Seeing a generous man, all the dwellers of heaven are delighted, / always along with the sages, Dharma, and Citragupta.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.29)

ātmāyattaṃ dhanaṃ yāvat tāvadvipre samarpayet /  
parādhīnaṃ mṛte sarvaṃ kṛpayā kaḥ pradāsyati //

> As long as wealth is under one's own control, so long should one entrust it to a brāhmaṇa; / upon death, everything falls under the control of others—who will give it out of compassion?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.30)

pitruddeśena yaḥ puttrairdhanaṃ viprakare 'rpitam /  
ātmānaṃ sadhanaṃ tena cakre putraprapautrakaiḥ //

> The wealth that is placed in the hand of a brāhmaṇa by sons for the sake of the father, / by that, he has enriched himself along with his sons and great-grandsons.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.31)

pituḥ śataguṇaṃ dattaṃ sahasraṃ māturucyate /  
bhaginyā śatasāhasraṃ sodarye dattamakṣayam //

> What is given for a father is said to be a hundredfold; for a mother, a thousandfold; / for a sister, a hundred thousandfold; and what is given to a brother from the same womb is imperishable.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.32)

yadi lobhānna yacchanti pramādānmohato 'pi vā /  
mṛtāḥ śocanti te sarve kadaryāḥ pāpinastviti //

> If out of greed they do not give, or out of negligence or delusion, / once dead, they all lament: 'Such misers, such sinners \[are they\]!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.33)

atikleśena labdhasya prakṛtyā cañcalasya ca /  
gatirekaiva vittasya dānamanyā vipattayaḥ //

> Of wealth acquired with excessive hardship and by nature fickle, / there is only one beneficial course—giving; the others are calamities.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.34)

mṛtyuḥ śarīgoptāraṃ vasurakṣaṃ vasundharā /  
duścāriṇīva hasati svapatiṃ putravatsalam //

> Death laughs at the protector of the body, and the earth laughs at the guardian of wealth, / just as an unchaste woman laughs at her own husband who is affectionate toward his son.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.35)

udāse dhārmikaḥ saumyaḥ prāpyāpi vipulaṃ dhanam /  
tṛṇavanmanyate tārkṣya ātmānaṃ vittamapyatha //

> When indifferent, the righteous and gentle person, even having acquired vast wealth,  
> considers both himself and his riches as merely grass, O Tārkṣya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.36)

na caivopadravāstasya mohajālo na caiva hi /  
mṛtyukāle na ca bhayaṃ yamadūtasamudbhavam //

> He has no afflictions, and indeed no snare of delusion;  
> at the time of death, he has no fear arising from the messengers of Yama.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.37)

samāḥ sahasrāṇi ca sapta vai jale daśaikamagnau pavane ca ṣoḍaśa /  
mahāhave paṣṭiraśītirgogṛhe anāśake kāśyapa cākṣayā gatiḥ //

> Seven thousand years \[of heaven\] by dying in water; eleven in fire; and sixteen in the air;  
> sixty in great battle; eighty in a cowshed; and by fasting \[to death\], O Kaśyapa, imperishable is the destination.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.36.37.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.36.37.p1)

iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe dvitīyāṃśe dharmakāṇḍe pretakalpe śrīkṛṣṇagaruḍasaṃvāde 'naśanamṛta gatinirūpaṇaṃ nāma ṣaṭtriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ

> Thus in the venerable Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the Uttarakhaṇḍa, in the second part, in the Dharmakāṇḍa, in the Pretakalpa, in the dialogue between Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa, the thirty-sixth chapter, named "Ascertainment of the Destination of One Dead by Fasting."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.36.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Skandapurāṇa (early; "Ambikākhaṇḍa") (ed. Bakker)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*early*bakker.21.5.97.180) — Sanskrit

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