Garudapurana 1.10

English (machine translation) 1.10

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1.10.6 — 1 part

1.10.1

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 10 / Hari said: / I shall explain the worship of Śrī and others on an altar or similar base for the sake of accomplishment: / “Oṃ hrīṃ to Mahālakṣmī, namaḥ.” / With śrāṃ, śrīṃ, śrūṃ, śraiṃ, śrauṃ, śraḥ, in due order, one should worship the heart, head, tuft of hair, / armor, eyes, weapon, seat, and form.

1.10.2

In a maṇḍala having a lotus at its center, with four doors, and furnished with colored powders, / a maṇḍala ending in sixty-four [squares], starting with eight, sixty, sixty-two and so on,

1.10.3

extending to sixty, one, and twelve, from the progression of empty space, four, and one, / [one should worship] Lakṣmī and the limb-deities; and in one corner, Durgā, the Gaṇa, the guru,

1.10.4

and the guardian of the field; then, beginning in the southeast, the one seeking desired ends offers oblations: / “Oṃ ghaṃ ṭaṃ ḍaṃ haṃ to the glorious Mahālakṣmī, namaḥ.”

1.10.5

With this [mantra], he should worship Lakṣmī along with the previously mentioned retinue. / “Oṃ saiṃ to Sarasvatī, namaḥ.” / “Oṃ hrīṃ saiṃ to Sarasvatī, namaḥ.”

1.10.6

“Oṃ hrīṃ speak, speak, goddess of eloquence, svāhā; oṃ hrīṃ to Sarasvatī, namaḥ.”

1.10.6.p1

Thus ends the tenth chapter, named “The Exposition of the Worship of Lakṣmī,” in the ritual section called the first part of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit