Garudapurana 1.102
English (machine translation) 1.102
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- 1.102.7 — 1 part
1.102.1
en:The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—102
Yājñavalkya said: / I will proclaim the stage of the forest hermit; let the great sages hear that: / committing his wife to his sons, or together with her, he should go to the forest.
1.102.2
en:The forest hermit should be celibate, maintaining the sacred fires, practicing worship, patient; / with food unplowed by the plowshare he should satisfy the fires, the ancestors, the gods, and guests,
1.102.3
en:And his servants; keeping beard, matted locks, and hair on his body, self-controlled, / restrained, bathing at the three junctures of the day, and turned away from accepting gifts;
1.102.4
en:Devoted to sacred study, disposed to meditation, delighting in the welfare of all beings. / He should collect provision for a day, or during a month;
1.102.5
en:He should abandon what has been collected in the month of Āśvayuja, and spend his time with religious observances and the like. / He may eat once a fortnight, or in a month, or be one who uses his teeth as a mortar;
1.102.6
en:Performing the cāndrāyaṇa fast, he should sleep on the ground, and sustain himself with fruits and the like. / In summer, he stands amidst five fires; in the rains, he sleeps on bare ground;
1.102.7
en:In winter, he wears wet garments, spending his days in the practice of yoga. / Toward one who pierces him with thorns and one who anoints him with sandalwood, / neither angry nor delighted, he is the same to both.
1.102.7.p1
en:Thus ends the hundred and second chapter, named ‘The Exposition of the Duties of the Forest Hermit as Spoken by Yājñavalkya,’ in the Conduct Section of the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit