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Garudapurana 1.46

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1.46.1

The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa—[Chapter] 46.
Hari said:
I shall briefly explain the site-plan, which removes obstacles in a house and other [structures].
Beginning from the northeast corner, one should worship upon eighty-one squares.

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His head is in the northeast, his feet in the southwest, and his hands in the southeast and northwest,
in a dwelling, a residential house, and the like, in a town, a village, [or] on a trade route;

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in temples, pleasure-gardens, forts, shrines of the gods, and hermitages.
There are twenty-two gods on the outside, and thirteen inside them:

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Īśa, then Parjanya, Jayanta, the thunderbolt-armed [Indra],
Sūrya, Satya, Bhṛgu, Ākāśa, and Vāyu;

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Pūṣan and Vitatha, the field of the planets, both Yama [and Gandharva],
Gandharva and Bhṛgurāja, Mṛga, and the host of the Pitṛs;

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then Dauvārika, Sugrīva, Puṣpadanta, Gaṇādhipa,
Asura, Śeṣa, Pāparakṣas, Roga, and Ahi;

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Bhallāṭa, Soma, Sarpa, Aditi, and Diti—
these thirty-two are on the outside. Now hear of the four within them:

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The wise person should worship those situated in the four corners beginning with the northeast:
Āpas, then Sāvitrī, Jaya, and Rudra.

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In the center on nine squares is Brahmā; hear the names of the gods near him,
these eight, each on one [further] side, beginning from the east:

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Aryaman, Savitṛ, Vivasvat, the Lord of the Gods,
Mitra, then Rājayakṣman, and likewise Pṛthvīdhara in order;

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and the eighth is Āpavatsa—these are taught as surrounding Brahmā.
Beginning from the northeast corner, in a fort […] is called the central line.

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The line beginning from the southeast corner is hard to bear.
Aditi, Himavat, and Jayanta—these three,

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and the leader named Kālikā, [and those] going from Śakra to Gandharva again.
Having worshipped the deities of the site, one should build a house or a temple.

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The priest of the gods should be made in front; the kitchen is in the southeast;
towards the east, by which monkeys exit, a pavilion for an almshouse [should be made].

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A room for scents and flowers should be made in the northeast, fitted with cloth.
The treasury should be in the north, and the cattle-shed in the northwest.

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A water-reservoir should be placed in the west, equipped with a window;
the place for sacrificial twigs, kuśa grass, firewood, and weapons should be in the southwest.

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A pleasant guest-house, equipped with beds, seats, and foot-rests,
provided with water, fire, lamps, and good attendants, should be in the south.

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One should fashion all the inner chambers with water-filled plantain-houses,
adorned with five-colored flowers.

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Outside it, one should erect an enclosure wall five cubits in height.
In this manner one should build a hermitage of Viṣṇu, endowed with woods and gardens.

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A site-plan of sixty-four squares is worshipped in temples and the like.
In the center on four squares is Brahmā, and Aryaman and the others occupy two squares each.

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In the corner are proclaimed the deities beginning with Śikhin;
on both sides of these, other gods also occupy a square and a half [or] two squares.

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The deities of the sixty-four squares are thus proclaimed:
Carakī, Vidārī, Pūtanā, and Pāparākṣasī.

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Outside these, starting from the northeast, are the deities beginning with Hetuka:
Haituka, Tripurānta, Agnivetālaka, Yama,

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Agnijihva, Kālaka, Karāla, and Ekapādaka;
in the northeast is Bhīmarūpa, and in the netherworld is Pretanāyaka;

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in the sky should be Gandhamālin. Then one should worship the guardians of the field.
One should make a total of the site by length multiplied by breadth.

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Dividing by eight, the remainder being set, one should indicate [the result] starting with Yama;
multiplying again by eight, one should divide by the number of asterisms.

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Whatever remains will be the lunar mansion; dividing by the divisions, the expenditure will result.
Multiplying the lunar mansion by four and dividing by nine,

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one should know the remainder as the portion, according to the opinion of Devala.
The product multiplied by eight and divided by sixty—

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whatever the remainder, that will be life; death is [determined] by dividing by the asterisms.
A person should always build a house in the lap of the site[-deity], never on his back;

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he sleeps on his left side—no doubt should be entertained here.
In Leo, Virgo, and Libra, the northern doorway is auspicious.

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Likewise, in Scorpio and the rest, the eastern, southern, and western [doors are auspicious].
The width of a door is half its length; eight doors are traditionally taught.

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Offspring, servitude, baseness, one's own conveyance, golden ornaments;
childlessness through Raudra, and loss of vigor in the south;

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death in Agni, increase of lifespan, gain of sons, and great contentment;
in Dhanada, affliction by the king; destruction of wealth and disease in the water-[direction];

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fear of the king, dead children, or no children, but no enmity;
giving wealth, causing loss of wealth, causing misfortune, causing the death of a son—

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these are the northern doors. I shall [now] declare the eastern doors:
fear of fire, many daughters, wealth, honor, and instilling wrath;

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slaying the king, and causing anger in the east—thus has the doorway been described by its fruits.
The east begins in the northeast, the south begins in the southeast,

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the west is in the southwest and the like, and the north is in the northwest and the like.
When divided into eight parts, the good and bad results of the doorways are [determined].

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The aśvattha, plakṣa, and nyagrodha, and in the east and other [quarters] the udumbara
are declared auspicious for a house, and the śālmali in the northeast;
when worshipped, it removes obstacles from a temple and a house.

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Thus ends the forty-sixth chapter, named “The Characteristics of Site Measurement,” in the section on conduct, the first portion of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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