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# Garudapurana 1.100

English (machine translation) 1.100

- **Language:** English

## Contents

- [1.100.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.17) — 1 part

### [1.100.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.1)

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—100. / Yājñavalkya said: / Learn the symptoms of one possessed by Vināyaka: / in a dream he plunges deeply into water and sees shaven-headed men.

### [1.100.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.2)

Dejected, his undertakings fruitless, he is distressed without cause. / A king \[loses\] his kingdom, a maiden a husband, and a pregnant woman a child.

### [1.100.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.3)

One would not obtain \[one's desire\]; his ablution should be performed on an auspicious day according to the rules: / after he is rubbed down with white mustard paste mixed with clarified butter,

### [1.100.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.4)

and after his head is smeared with all medicinal herbs and all perfumes, / while seated on an auspicious seat, he should have virtuous twice-born men pronounce benedictions.

### [1.100.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.5)

He should cast earth, rocanā, perfumes, and guggulu into the waters / that have been brought from a pool in four pitchers of uniform color.

### [1.100.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.6)

He should be placed on a red ox-hide on an auspicious seat. / The \[strainer\] with a thousand holes and a hundred streams is remembered by the sages as purifying.

### [1.100.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.7)

en:With that I consecrate you; may the Purifying verses purify you. / May King Varuṇa give good fortune, and may the Sun and Bṛhaspati give good fortune;

### [1.100.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.8)

en:May Indra and Vāyu give good fortune, and may the Seven Seers give good fortune. / Whatever misfortune is in your hair, in your parting, or on your head,

### [1.100.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.9)

en:On your forehead, your two ears, or your eyes, may the waters always destroy it for you. / For him who has bathed, with mustard oil and a ladle of udumbara wood,

### [1.100.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.10)

en:Holding kuśa grass with the left hand, he should offer \[libations\] on his head, / \[with the mantras to\] Mita, Sammita, and Śālakaṭaṅkaṭa,

### [1.100.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.11)

en:Kuṣmāṇḍa, and Rājaputra, ending with svāhā. / Then, having spread kuśa grass all around upon the earth at a crossroad,

### [1.100.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.12)

en:He should offer prepared and unprepared grains of rice, sesamum mash, / variegated and fragrant flowers, and three kinds of wine,

### [1.100.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.13)

en:Radishes, cakes, pies, and garlands of auṇḍeraka cakes, / curds, milk-rice, cooked food, treacle flour, and sweets,

### [1.100.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.14)

en:Having brought all these and bowed his head to the ground, / he should approach Ambikā and offer arghya with joined palms:

### [1.100.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.15)

en:With dūrvā grass, mustard seeds, and flowers at the birth of sons at last, / and having performed the auspicious recitation, he should pray to the virtuous Ambikā:

### [1.100.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.16)

en:‘Give me beauty, give me fame, give me good fortune, O goddess! / Give me sons, give me wealth, and grant me all desires.’

### [1.100.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.17)

en:Afterwards, he should feed brāhmaṇas with white garments and unguents; / he should give a pair of garments to the guru, and having worshiped the planets, / devoted to the worship of the Sun, he will attain auspicious fruit of his deeds.

### [1.100.17.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.100.17.p1)

en:Thus ends the hundredth chapter, named ‘The Exposition of the Procedure for Gaṇapati as Spoken by Yājñavalkya,’ in the Conduct Section of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

## Linked texts (1)

- [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.100.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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