Garudapurana 1.42

English (machine translation) 1.42

Language: English

1.42.25 — 1 part

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Hari said: / I shall state the investing with the pavitra sacred thread of Śiva, which destroys inauspiciousness. / The ācārya, the sādhaka, the putraka, or the samayin should perform it, O Hara.

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Otherwise the Lord of Obstacles steals away the worship performed for a year. / One should perform it in Āṣāḍha, Śrāvaṇa, Māgha, or in Bhādrapada.

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Gold, silver, copper, and cotton thread in order / are to be known [for castes], gathered on Mars's day or the like, and spun by an unmarried maiden.

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Tripling it three times, he should then make the pavitra thread. / The knots [are made] with the Vāmadeva mantra, and he should wash it with the Sadyojāta mantra, O Śiva.

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Purified with the Aghora mantra, it should be tied with the Tatpuruṣa mantra; / he should perfume it with the Īśāna mantra. These are remembered as the deities of the strands:

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the syllable Oṃ, the Moon, Fire, Brahmā, the Serpent, the peacock-bannered god, / the Sun, Viṣṇu, and Śiva are declared to be the deities on the strands in order.

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He should make one of a hundred and eight [threads], fifty, or twenty-five; / Rudra is to be known as the highest, and the measure of knots is ten.

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They should be separated by four finger-breadths; and the names of the knots in order: / Prakṛti, Pauruṣī, Vīrā, and fourth Aparājitā,

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Jayā, Vijayā, Rudrā, Ajitā, Sadāśivā, / Manonmanī, Sarvamukhī, or else by two finger-breadths or one finger-breadth.

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He should color it with saffron and other substances, and make a perforated pavitra thread. / On the seventh or the thirteenth day in the bright fortnight, or likewise in the other.

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Having bathed the liṅga with milk and other liquids, he should worship it with perfumes and the rest; / he should offer the perforated pavitra thread to the Self, to Brahman, O Hara.

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He should offer a flower accompanied by perfume with the root mantra in the sphere of Īśāna; / in the east, a wooden staff, and in the north, an āmalakī fruit;

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in the west, he should give clay, [and] in the south, ashes for prosperity; / in the south-west, the knower of mantras should offer agallochum with the śikhā mantra;

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in the north-west, he should give mustard seed with the kavaca mantra, O bull-bannered god. / Encompassing the house with thread, he should present the perforated pavitra thread.

Having performed a fire offering in the south-east and made [offerings], he should then offer a bali oblation to the beings: / “You are invited, O Lord of the gods, along with your retinues, O Maheśvara!

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In the morning I shall worship you; be present here.” / Having invited him with this, he should stay awake, performing singing and the like during the night.

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He should place the consecrated pavitra threads beside the god. / Having bathed, on the fourteenth day he should worship Aditya, and first Rudra.

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Having meditated on the universal form situated on the forehead, he should worship himself. / Thus sprinkled with the astra mantra, and then worshiped with the hṛdaya mantra,

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consecrated with the Saṃhitā mantras, perfumed with incense, he should offer them: / first that consisting of the Śiva principle, then that consisting of the Vidyā principle,

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then that consisting of the Ātman principle, and after that he should worship the one called the god: / “Oṃ hauṃ hauṃ, homage to the Śiva principle! / Oṃ hīṃ, homage to the Vidyā principle!

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Oṃ hāṃ, homage to the Ātman principle! / Oṃ hāṃ hīṃ hūṃ kṣaiṃ, homage to all principles! / O God, what was seen by you as the embodiment of Time in my rite…”

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Whatever has been performed, troubled, left unfinished, offered into fire, or hidden, / by your will, O Śambhu, by means of the purifier, with one's whole self —

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Fulfill, fulfill the sacrificial observance! To that lord of rules, whose self is all principles, who is protected by all causes: oṃ hāṃ hīṃ hūṃ haiṃ hauṃ, obeisance to Śiva!

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One who, with the preceding [mantras], would offer four purifiers, / having offered the purifier to the fire, should bestow the sacrificial fee upon the guru.

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Having offered the oblation and fed the twice-born, one should dismiss Caṇḍa toward the east.

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Thus ends the forty-second chapter, entitled 'The Investing with the Purifier of Śiva', in the Ritual Section named the First Part of the First Section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit