[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt) › 1.142 # Garudapurana 1.142 English (machine translation) 1.142 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.142.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.28) — 1 part ### [1.142.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.1) 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. ### [1.142.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.2) 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; ### [1.142.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.3) bringing back the Vedas, Keśava protected Manu and others. / Becoming a tortoise, he supported Mount Mandara for the welfare \[of all\]. ### [1.142.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.4) At the churning of the Milk Ocean, the divine physician Dhanvantari arose; / bearing a water-pot full of ambrosia, he stood forth. ### [1.142.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.5) He then taught the eight-limbed Āyurveda to Suśruta. / Assuming a female form, Hari gave the ambrosia to the gods to drink. ### [1.142.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.6) Having descended as a boar, he slew Hiraṇyākṣa; / he lifted up the earth and protected the deities. ### [1.142.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.7) Having descended as Narasiṃha, he slew the enemy Hiraṇyakaśipu / and the Daityas, and protected the Vedic dharma and the rest. ### [1.142.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.8) Then, as Rāma Jāmadagnya, the Lord of the world, Hari, / rid the earth of Kṣatriyas twenty-one times. ### [1.142.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.9) He slew Kārtavīrya in battle and gave the earth to Kaśyapa; / performing a sacrifice, the mighty-armed one dwelt on Mount Mahendra. ### [1.142.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.10) Then Rāma, the destroyer of the wicked, manifested fourfold: / Rāma was born as the son of Daśaratha, along with his younger brother Bharata, ### [1.142.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.11) 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, ### [1.142.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.12) went to Śṛṅgaverapura, Citrakūṭa, and the Daṇḍaka forest. / Having cut off the nose of Śūrpaṇakhā, and having killed Khara and Dūṣaṇa, ### [1.142.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.13) and having slain the rākṣasa Rāvaṇa, the night-roamer who stole Sītā, / and having installed his younger brother Vibhīṣaṇa in the city of Laṅkā ### [1.142.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.14) over the kingdom of the Rākṣasas, \[accompanied\] by Sugrīva, Hanumān, and the rest, / boarding the Puṣpaka \[chariot\] together with Sītā, devoted to her husband, ### [1.142.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.15) and with the devoted Lakṣmaṇa, he went to his own city, Ayodhyā. / He ruled the kingdom, and protected the gods and his subjects. ### [1.142.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.16) He protected dharma and performed horse sacrifices and other rites; / she took delight in Rāma, the king, according to her pleasure. ### [1.142.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.17) Though staying in the house of Rāvaṇa, Sītā did not yield to Rāvaṇa; / in deed, mind, and speech, she was always devoted to Raghava. ### [1.142.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.18) 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. ### [1.142.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.19) Formerly, in Pratiṣṭhāna, there lived a brāhmaṇa named Kauśika, who had leprosy. / His wife worshipped that diseased husband just like a god. ### [1.142.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.20) Even when rebuked, she regarded that husband as a deity. / Commanded by her husband, taking a large fee, she brought him to a courtesan. ### [1.142.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.21) 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, ### [1.142.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.22) carried on the shoulders of his wife, jolted him. / Angered by the touch of his foot, Māṇḍavya said to him: ### [1.142.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.23) “At sunrise, he who jolted me with his foot shall die!” / Hearing that, his wife declared: “The sun shall not rise!” ### [1.142.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.24) Then, because the sun did not rise, it remained constant night / for the measure of many years; thereupon the gods were filled with fear. ### [1.142.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.25) They sought refuge with Brahmā; the lotus-born \[god\] said to them: / “By spiritual splendor alone is the heat of spiritual austerity subdued; ### [1.142.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.26) 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. ### [1.142.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.27) Therefore, propitiate Anasūyā, the ascetic wife of Atri and devoted woman, / with the desire for the sun to rise.” ### [1.142.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.28) 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. ### [1.142.28.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142.28.p1) 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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.142.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.142) · Pramāṇa