[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) › 2.8 # Garudapurana 2.8 Garuḍapurāṇa 2.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ## Contents - [2.8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.33) — 1 part ### [2.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.1) śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 8 garuḍa uvāca / svāminkasyādhikāro 'tra sarva evaurdhvadehike / kriyāḥ katividhāḥ proktā vadaitatsarvameva me // > The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa \[Chapter\] 8. / Garuḍa said: / Master, who has authority here in all the funeral rites? / Of how many kinds are the rites said to be? Tell me all this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.2) śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca / putraḥ pautraḥ prapautro vā tadbhrātā bhrātṛsantatiḥ / sapiṇḍasantatirvāpi kriyārhāḥ khaga jñātayaḥ // > Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / A son, a grandson, a great-grandson, or his brother, the offspring of a brother, / or the offspring of a sapiṇḍa, or kinsmen, O bird, are eligible for the rites. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.3) teṣāmabhāve sarveṣāṃ samānodakasantatiḥ / kuladvaye 'pi cocchinne strībhiḥ kāryāḥ kriyāḥ khaga // > In the absence of all these, the offspring of a samānodaka \[is eligible\]. / Even when both families are extinct, the rites are to be performed by women, O bird. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.4) icchayocchinnabandhaśca kārayedavanīpatiḥ / pūrvāḥ kriyā madhyamāśca tathā caivottarāḥ kriyāḥ // > And the king may voluntarily have the rites performed for one whose kin is severed: / the preliminary rites, the intermediate rites, and likewise the final rites. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.5) pratisaṃvatsaraṃ pakṣinnekoddiṣṭavidhānataḥ / śrāddhaṃ tatra prakartavyaṃ phalaṃ tasya śṛṇuṣva me // > Every year, O bird, according to the rule of the ekoddiṣṭa rite, / a śrāddha should be performed there; hear from Me its fruit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.6) brahmendrarudranāsatyasūryāgnivasumārutān / viśvedevānpitṛ gaṇānvayāṃsi manujānpaśūn // > Brahmā, Indra, Rudra, the Nāsatyas, the Sun, Agni, the Vasus, the Maruts, / the Viśvedevas, the hosts of ancestors, birds, humans, beasts, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.7) sarīsṛpānmātṛgaṇānyaccānyadbhūtasaṃjñitam / śrāddhaṃ śraddhānvitaḥ kurvanprīṇayatyakhilaṃ jagat // > reptiles, the hosts of Mothers, and whatever else is designated as living beings: / performing the śrāddha endowed with faith, he propitiates the entire world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.8) te tṛptāstarpayantyenaṃ putradāradhanaistathā / adhikāraḥ kriyābhedaḥ samāsātte nirūpitaḥ // > They, being satisfied, gratify him with sons, wives, and wealth. / The authority and the division of rites have been described to you in brief. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.9) garuḍa uvāca / ukteṣveko 'pi cenna syādadhikārī surottama / kartavyaṃ kiṃ tadā viṣṇo puruṣeṇa vijānatā // > Garuḍa said: / If not even one among those mentioned should be the authorized person, O best of gods, / what should be done then, O Viṣṇu, by a prudent person? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.10) śrīkṛṣṇa uvāca / adhikāro yadā nāsti yadi nāsti ca niścayaḥ / jīvite sati jīvāya dadyācchrāddhaṃsvayaṃ naraḥ // > Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / When there is no authority, and if there is no certainty, / a man should offer the śrāddha for his living self while he is still alive. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.11) kṛtopavāsaḥ susnātaḥ kṛṣṇāsaṅgaḥ samāhitaḥ / kartāramatha bhoktāraṃ viṣṇuṃ sarveśvaraṃ yajet // > Having observed a fast, having bathed well, attached to Kṛṣṇa, and concentrated in mind, / he should worship Viṣṇu, the Lord of all, the agent and the enjoyer. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.12) sadakṣiṇāśca satilāstistraśca jaladhenavaḥ / nivedayetpitṛbhyaśca svadheti susamāhitaḥ // > Together with sacrificial fees and with sesame seeds, three water-cows / he should offer to the ancestors, chanting 'svadhā', being well-composed: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.13) agnaye kavyavāhanāya svadhā nama iti smaran / somāyatvā pitṛmate svadhā nama iti smaran // > chanting 'svadhā, obeisance to Agni, carrier of the funeral offerings', / and chanting 'svadhā, obeisance to Soma accompanied by the ancestors'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.14) dakṣiṇena tu dadyācca tṛtīyāṃ dakṣiṇāyutām / yamāyāṅgirase cātha svadhā nama iti smaran // > With a sacrificial fee, he should offer the third accompanied by dakṣiṇā, / chanting 'svadhā, obeisance to Yama and the Āṅgirasa'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.15) tayormadhye tu niḥ kṣipya viprānsaṃmantrya bho jayet / prathamāmuttare nyasya dvitīyāṃ dakṣiṇe nyaset // > Placing \[the gifts\] between those two, he should consecrate the brāhmaṇas with mantras and feed them: / having placed the first in the north, he should place the second in the south; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.16) madhye tṛtīyāṃ vinyasya paścādāvāhanādikam / āvāhanādinā pūrvaṃ viśvedevānprapūjyaca // > having placed the third in the middle, thereafter \[perform\] the invocation and other rites. / Having first worshipped the Viśvedevas with invocation and other rites, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.17) vasubhyastvāmahaṃ vipra rudrebhyastvāmahaṃ tataḥ / sūryebhyastvāmahaṃ vipra bhojayāmīti tānvadet // > he should say to them: 'I feed you, O vipra, as the Vasus; I feed you next, O vipra, as the Rudras; / I feed you, O vipra, as the Sūryas.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.18) āvāhanādikaṃ śeṣaṃ kuryācca pitṛśeṣavat / sāmyāṃ dhenuṃ tato dadyādvasūddeśaṃ dvijāya tu // > The remaining rites of invocation and the rest he should perform like those for the ancestors. / Then he should give a cow in the north to a twice-born intended for the Vasus, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.19) āgneyyāṃ cātha raudrāya yāmyāṃ sūryadvijāya tu / viśvebhyaścātha devebhyastilapātraṃ nivedayet // > in the south-east for the Rudra, and in the south for the Sūrya twice-born; / and he should present a vessel of sesame seeds to the Viśvedevas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.20) svastītyeva tathākṣayyaṃ jalaṃ dattvātha tāndvijān / visarjayetsmaranviṣṇuṃ devamaṣṭākṣaraṃ vibhum // > Saying 'May there be welfare' and likewise giving imperishable water, he should then dismiss those twice-born, / remembering Viṣṇu, the all-pervading eight-syllabled God. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.21) tataḥ kāmaṃ kuleśānīṃ śivaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ smaret / caturdaśyāṃ tato gacchedyathāprāptāṃ saridvarām // > Then he may remember at will Kuleśānī, Śiva, and Nārāyaṇa. / Then on the fourteenth day he should go to whichever excellent river is found. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.22) vastrāṇi lohakhaṇḍāni jitaṃ ta iti saṃjapan / dakṣiṇābhimukho vahniṃ jvālayettatra ca svayam // > Garments and pieces of iron, muttering 'Victory unto You', / facing south, he should ignite the fire there himself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.23) pañcāśatā kuśairbrāhmīṃ kṛtvā pratikṛtiṃ dahet / hutvā śmāśānikaṃ homaṃ pūrṇāhutyantameva hi // > Making an effigy of Brahmā out of fifty kuśa blades, he should burn it, / having offered the funeral-ground fire sacrifice concluding with the final oblation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.24) niragrimatha vā bhūmiṃ yamaṃ rudrañca saṃsmaret / hutvā prādhānike sthāne paścādāvāhayecca tam // > He should remember the fireless ground, or Yama and Rudra. / Having offered an oblation in the principal place, he should thereafter invoke him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.25) śrapayeccāparaṃ vahnau mudgamiśraṃ caruṃ tataḥ / tilataṇḍulamiśrañca dvitīyaṃ sapavitrakam // > He should then cook another offering mixed with mung beans in the fire, / and a second one mixed with sesame and rice, with a pavitra ring. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.26) oṃ pṛthivyai namastubhyamiti caikaṃ nivedayet / oṃ yamāya namaśceti dvitīyaṃ tadanantaram // > He should offer the one saying: 'Oṃ, obeisance to you, O Earth', / and immediately after, the second saying: 'Oṃ, obeisance to Yama.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.27) oṃ namaścātha rudrāya śmāśānapataye namaḥ / tato dīpte samiddhe 'gnau bhūmau prakṛtidāruṇe // > Then saying: 'Oṃ, obeisance to Rudra, obeisance to the Lord of the cremation ground', / in the blazing, ignited fire upon the inherently terrible ground, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.28) saptabhyo yamasaṃjñebhyo dadyātsapta jalāñjalīn / yamāya dharmarājāya mṛtyave cāntakāya ca // > he should offer seven handfuls of water to the seven named Yamas: / to Yama, to Dharmarāja, to Mṛtyu, and to Antaka; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.29) vaivasvatāya kālāya sarvaprāṇaharāya ca / svadhākāranamaskārapraṇavaiḥ saha saptadhā // > To Vaivasvata, to Time, and to the Destroyer of all life, / sevenfold, along with the exclamation of svadhā, obeisance, and the praṇava. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.30) amukāmukagautraitattubhyamastu tilodakam / pradadyāddaśa piṇḍāṃstu arghapuṣpasamanvitān // > ‘Let this water with sesame seeds be for you, \[name\], of such-and-such lineage!’ / Then he should offer the ten rice-balls, along with argha-water and flowers: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.31) dhūpo dīpo balirgandhaḥ sarveṣāmastu cākṣayaḥ / daśa piṇḍāṃstu dāndattvā viṣṇoḥ saumyaṃ mukhaṃ smaret // > ‘May incense, lamp, oblation, and fragrant paste be imperishable for all!’ / Having given the gifts of the ten rice-balls, he should meditate on the gentle face of Viṣṇu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.32) kuryācca māsikaṃ māsi sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ tataḥ / āśaucānte tataḥ kuryādātmano vā marasya tu // > And he should perform the monthly \[śrāddha\] month by month, and then the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa rite. / Then at the end of the period of impurity he should perform it, whether for himself or for another who has died. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.33) kuryādasthiratāṃ jñātvā śaktyārogyadhanāyuṣam / etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ jīvacchrāddhaṃ mayā khaga // > Knowing the impermanence of strength, health, wealth, and life-span, he should perform it. / All this living-śrāddha has been narrated to you by me, O bird. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.8.33.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.33.p1) iti śrīgāruḍe mahāpurāṇe uttarakhaṇḍe dvitīyāṃśe dharmakāṇḍe pretakalpe śrīkṛṣṇa garuḍasaṃvāde śrāddhakartrātmaśrāddhayornirūpaṇaṃ nāmāṣṭamo 'dhyāyaḥ > Thus ends the eighth chapter, named ‘The Determination of the Performer of Śrāddha and the Living-Śrāddha,’ in the Pretakalpa of the ritual section, the second part of the Latter Section 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.2.8.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (8) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.3.13.33) — Sanskrit - [Liṅgapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.linga.2.55.6) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Yoginītantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.yoginitantra.27.326) — Sanskrit - [Bhagavantabhāskara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.bhagavantabhaskara.49.p55) — Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita 1625, Sanskrit - [Madanapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaparijata.10.p5.20) — Viśveśvarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Skandapurāṇa (early; "Ambikākhaṇḍa") (ed. Bakker)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*early*bakker.19.5.17.15) — Sanskrit - [Jayasīṃhakalpadruma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.jayasimhakalpadruma.11.p10.3) — Ratnākara 1688, Sanskrit - [Kṛtyasārasamuccaya (Amṛtanātha Jhā Śarman)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.krtya.krtyasarasamuccaya.2.p279.1) — Amṛtanātha Jhā Śarman 1800, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8) · Pramāṇa