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# Garudapurana 1.101

English (machine translation) 1.101

- **Language:** English

## Contents

- [1.101.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.12) — 1 part

### [1.101.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.1)

en:The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—101  
Yājñavalkya said: / One who desires prosperity, or desires pacification, or has affliction from the planetary gaze, / should perform the planetary sacrifice properly; and these planets are recorded by the wise:

### [1.101.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.2)

en:The Sun, Soma, Maṅgala, Budha, Bṛhaspati, / Śukra, Śanaiścara, Rāhu, and Ketu are known as the host of planets.

### [1.101.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.3)

en:\[Made\] of copper, crystal, red sandalwood, gold—two \[of them\]—, / silver, iron, lead, and bronze: understand their colors:

### [1.101.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.4)

en:Red, white, and red; yellow, yellow; white, dark; / black, black in succession are the colors, and then the substances, O sages.

### [1.101.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.5)

en:He should establish the planetary colors, or draw them on cloth for the oblation; / he should bathe and offer oblations according to rule with the planets’ substances. / Gold, garments, and flowers should be given,

### [1.101.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.6)

en:As well as perfumes, offerings, incense, and bdellium. / There, boiled offerings should be made for each deity with the mantras:

### [1.101.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.7)

en:With ‘ākṛṣṇena’, ‘imaṃ devāḥ’, ‘agnir mūrdhā divaḥ kakut’, / and ‘ud budhyasva’, he should offer oblations in proper order;

### [1.101.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.8)

en:With ‘bṛhaspate ati yad aryaḥ’, ‘annāt parisrutaḥ’, / ‘śaṃ no devīḥ’, ‘kayā naḥ’, and ‘ketuṃ kṛṇvan’, in sequence.

### [1.101.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.9)

en:Arka, palāśa, khadira, and apāmārga, then pippala, / udumbara, śamī, dūrvā, and kuśa are the fuel sticks, in order.

### [1.101.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.10)

en:They are to be offered combined with honey, clarified butter, and curds: / rice cooked with molasses, milk-rice, sacrificial food, and rice cooked with milk;

### [1.101.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.11)

en:Rice cooked with curds, sacrificial food, sweet breads, meat, and variegated cooked rice: / these he should present to the planets in order of the planets, and then food vessels.

### [1.101.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.12)

en:A cow, a conch, an ox, gold, a garment, a horse, / a black cow, an iron object, and a goat: these indeed are the sacrificial fees in order. / The planets are always to be worshipped, because kingship and other fruits are obtained \[from them\].

### [1.101.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.101.12.p1)

en:Thus ends the hundred and first chapter, named ‘The Exposition of the Pacification of the Planets 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.1.101.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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