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Garudapurana 1.142

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Brahmā said: / Hari, the Lord, descended [to earth] and protected the world and all else, / in order to destroy the ways of the Daityas and to preserve the ways of the Vedas and so forth.

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The Unborn takes incarnation in the form of the Fish and other [manifestations]. / Becoming a fish, he slew the Daitya Hayagrīva, the thorn in the side of the gods;

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bringing back the Vedas, Keśava protected Manu and others. / Becoming a tortoise, he supported Mount Mandara for the welfare [of all].

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At the churning of the Milk Ocean, the divine physician Dhanvantari arose; / bearing a water-pot full of ambrosia, he stood forth.

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He then taught the eight-limbed Āyurveda to Suśruta. / Assuming a female form, Hari gave the ambrosia to the gods to drink.

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Having descended as a boar, he slew Hiraṇyākṣa; / he lifted up the earth and protected the deities.

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Having descended as Narasiṃha, he slew the enemy Hiraṇyakaśipu / and the Daityas, and protected the Vedic dharma and the rest.

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Then, as Rāma Jāmadagnya, the Lord of the world, Hari, / rid the earth of Kṣatriyas twenty-one times.

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He slew Kārtavīrya in battle and gave the earth to Kaśyapa; / performing a sacrifice, the mighty-armed one dwelt on Mount Mahendra.

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Then Rāma, the destroyer of the wicked, manifested fourfold: / Rāma was born as the son of Daśaratha, along with his younger brother Bharata,

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and Lakṣmaṇa and Śatrughna; and Jānakī was Rāma’s wife. / And Rāma, for the sake of his father's truth and doing what was beneficial for his mothers,

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went to Śṛṅgaverapura, Citrakūṭa, and the Daṇḍaka forest. / Having cut off the nose of Śūrpaṇakhā, and having killed Khara and Dūṣaṇa,

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and having slain the rākṣasa Rāvaṇa, the night-roamer who stole Sītā, / and having installed his younger brother Vibhīṣaṇa in the city of Laṅkā

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over the kingdom of the Rākṣasas, [accompanied] by Sugrīva, Hanumān, and the rest, / boarding the Puṣpaka [chariot] together with Sītā, devoted to her husband,

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and with the devoted Lakṣmaṇa, he went to his own city, Ayodhyā. / He ruled the kingdom, and protected the gods and his subjects.

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He protected dharma and performed horse sacrifices and other rites; / she took delight in Rāma, the king, according to her pleasure.

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Though staying in the house of Rāvaṇa, Sītā did not yield to Rāvaṇa; / in deed, mind, and speech, she was always devoted to Raghava.

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Devoted to her husband was that Sītā, just like Anasūyā. / Hear from me of the glory of a devoted wife; I shall tell it to you.

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Formerly, in Pratiṣṭhāna, there lived a brāhmaṇa named Kauśika, who had leprosy. / His wife worshipped that diseased husband just like a god.

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Even when rebuked, she regarded that husband as a deity. / Commanded by her husband, taking a large fee, she brought him to a courtesan.

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On the way, the sage Māṇḍavya, impaled on a stake though not a thief under suspicion of theft, / was in terrible pain in the darkness. Then that twice-born Kauśika,

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carried on the shoulders of his wife, jolted him. / Angered by the touch of his foot, Māṇḍavya said to him:

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“At sunrise, he who jolted me with his foot shall die!” / Hearing that, his wife declared: “The sun shall not rise!”

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Then, because the sun did not rise, it remained constant night / for the measure of many years; thereupon the gods were filled with fear.

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They sought refuge with Brahmā; the lotus-born [god] said to them: / “By spiritual splendor alone is the heat of spiritual austerity subdued;

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through the majesty of the devoted wife, the sun does not rise; / and because of its failure to rise, there is ruin for mortals and for you.

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Therefore, propitiate Anasūyā, the ascetic wife of Atri and devoted woman, / with the desire for the sun to rise.”

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Propitiated by them, that devoted wife Anasūyā went, / caused the sun to rise, and revived that husband. / Yet Sītā was indeed even greater than the devoted wife Anasūyā.

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Thus ends the one hundred and forty-second chapter, named “The Vision of the Ten Incarnations,” in the section on conduct, known as the first part in the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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