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Garudapurana 1.233

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1.233.1

Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 233
Sūta said: / I shall declare that praise spoken by Mārkaṇḍeya: / 'I have surrendered to Dāmodara; what will Death do to me?

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The god bearing the conch and discus, of manifest form, imperishable, / to Adhokṣaja I have surrendered; what will Death do to me?

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The Boar, the Dwarf, Viṣṇu, the Man-Lion, Janārdana, / and Mādhava I have surrendered to; what will Death do to me?

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To the Puruṣa, the seed of the field of Puṣkara, the holy lord of the universe, / the protector of the world I have surrendered; what will Death do to me?

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To the thousand-headed god, manifest and unmanifest, eternal, / the great yoga I have surrendered; what will Death do to me?

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To the Self of beings, the Great Self, the source of sacrifice, not born of a womb, / the universal form I have surrendered; what will Death do to me?'

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Hearing this praise uttered by that great-souled one, / Death then fled away, tormented by the messengers of Viṣṇu.

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Thus was Death conquered by that wise Mārkaṇḍeya. / When the Lotus-eyed One, Nṛsiṃha, is pleased, nothing is difficult to obtain.

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This holy eight-verse hymn on Death, auspicious and quelling death, / was spoken by Viṣṇu himself for the welfare of Mārkaṇḍeya.

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He who, restrained and pure, recites this with devotion at the three junctures of the day, / for that man whose mind is fixed on Acyuta there will be no untimely death.

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Contemplating the ancient Puruṣa in the middle of the heart-lotus, Nārāyaṇa, eternal, immeasurable, / shining brighter than the sun, that yogin conquered death in that very manner.

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Thus ends the two hundred and thirty-third chapter in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, called the Hymn of the Eight Verses on Death composed by Mārkaṇḍeya.

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