[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) › 1.42 # Garudapurana 1.42 English (machine translation) 1.42 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.42.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.25) — 1 part ### [1.42.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.1) 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. ### [1.42.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.2) Otherwise the Lord of Obstacles steals away the worship performed for a year. / One should perform it in Āṣāḍha, Śrāvaṇa, Māgha, or in Bhādrapada. ### [1.42.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.3) 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. ### [1.42.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.4) 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. ### [1.42.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.5) 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: ### [1.42.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.6) 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. ### [1.42.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.7) 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. ### [1.42.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.8) They should be separated by four finger-breadths; and the names of the knots in order: / Prakṛti, Pauruṣī, Vīrā, and fourth Aparājitā, ### [1.42.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.9) Jayā, Vijayā, Rudrā, Ajitā, Sadāśivā, / Manonmanī, Sarvamukhī, or else by two finger-breadths or one finger-breadth. ### [1.42.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.10) 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. ### [1.42.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.11) 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. ### [1.42.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.12) 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; ### [1.42.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.13) 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; ### [1.42.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.14) 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. ### [1.42.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.15) 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! ### [1.42.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.16) 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. ### [1.42.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.17) He should place the consecrated pavitra threads beside the god. / Having bathed, on the fourteenth day he should worship Aditya, and first Rudra. ### [1.42.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.18) 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, ### [1.42.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.19) 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, ### [1.42.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.20) 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! ### [1.42.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.21) 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…” ### [1.42.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.22) 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 — ### [1.42.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.23) 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! ### [1.42.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.24) 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. ### [1.42.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.25) Having offered the oblation and fed the twice-born, one should dismiss Caṇḍa toward the east. ### [1.42.25.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42.25.p1) 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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.42.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.42) · Pramāṇa