[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) › 1.52 # Garudapurana 1.52 English (machine translation) 1.52 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.52.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.27) — 1 part ### [1.52.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — 52 Brahmā said: / Next, O twice-born ones, I shall declare the rule of expiation. / The slayer of a brāhmaṇa, the drinker of liquor, the thief, and the violator of the Guru's bed — ### [1.52.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.2) these are the major sinners, and he who associates with them is the fifth. / The gods have proclaimed minor sins to be cow-killing and the like. ### [1.52.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.3) A slayer of a brāhmaṇa should live in the forest for twelve years after building a hut; / or he should practice starvation, or fall from a precipice; ### [1.52.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.4) or he may enter a blazing fire, or plunge into water himself; / or he may properly surrender his life for the sake of a brāhmaṇa or a cow. ### [1.52.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.5) And by giving food to a learned man, he expels the sin of slaying a brāhmaṇa. / Or, having bathed at the final ablution of a horse sacrifice, a twice-born is freed; ### [1.52.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.6) or he should give all his possessions to a brāhmaṇa who knows the Veda. / At the world-renowned confluence of the river Sarasvatī, ### [1.52.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.7) purified, having bathed thrice daily and fasted for three nights, a twice-born is freed. / Having bathed at the Setubandha, a man is freed from the slaying of a brāhmaṇa. ### [1.52.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.8) Having bathed likewise at Kapālamocana in Vārāṇasī, \[he is freed\]. / A drinker of liquor, however, a best among twice-born, having drunk fire-colored liquor, ### [1.52.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.9) or milk, clarified butter, or cow's urine, is freed from that sin. / A stealer of gold is freed when struck by kings with an iron club. ### [1.52.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.10) Wearing rags, a twice-born man should perform in the forest the observance for slaying a Brahmin. / A Brahmin who, deluded by lust, has mounted the wife of his guru ### [1.52.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.11) should embrace a heated, glowing \[image of\] a woman made of black iron. / And those who have approached the wife of their guru should perform the observance for a Brahmin-slayer. ### [1.52.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.12) Or he should perform five, or again four, cāndrāyaṇa penances. / But whichever twice-born man forms a connection with a fallen person ### [1.52.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.13) should perform the observance of that very person to remove that sin, / or, alert, he should perform the taptakṛcchra penance for a year. ### [1.52.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.14) Giving away all one's possessions according to rule purifies all sins; / and a cāndrāyaṇa penance performed according to rule, and also an atikṛcchra penance, ### [1.52.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.15) and going to holy places such as Gayā destroys sin. / Reaching the new-moon day, whoever worships Bhava ### [1.52.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.16) and feeds Brahmins is freed from all sins. / Having fasted on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight, concentrated in mind, ### [1.52.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.17) to Yama, to Dharmarāja, to Death, and to Antaka, / to Vaivasvata, to Kāla, and to the Destroyer of all beings, ### [1.52.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.18) one should offer seven handfuls of water accompanied by sesame seeds to each. / Having bathed in a river in the forenoon, one is freed from all sins. ### [1.52.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.19) Celibacy, sleeping on the ground, fasting, worshiping twice-born men— / during these observances, calm, with controlled mind, one should perform \[these\]. ### [1.52.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.20) Having fasted on the sixth day of the bright fortnight, concentrated in mind, / one should worship the Sun on the seventh day; one is freed from all sins. ### [1.52.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.21) Fasting on the eleventh day, having fully worshiped Janārdana / on the twelfth day of the bright fortnight, one is freed from the great sins. ### [1.52.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.22) Austerity, recitation, visiting holy places, worshiping gods and Brahmins / at times such as eclipses destroy great sins. ### [1.52.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.23) A person who, though endowed with all sins, / gives up life according to rule at holy places is freed from all sins. ### [1.52.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.24) A woman who enters the fire along with \[her husband\] uplifts her husband, / whether he is a slayer of a Brahmin, ungrateful, or corrupted by great sins. ### [1.52.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.25) For a devoted wife who is eager to serve her husband, / no sin exists in this world or in the next. ### [1.52.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.26) Likewise, the fortunate Sītā, famed in the three worlds, / the queen-wife of Rāma, son of Daśaratha, conquered the lord of the rākṣasas. ### [1.52.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.27) One who has bathed at Phalgu tīrtha and others obtains the fruit of all good conduct. / Thus the Blessed Viṣṇu spoke to me formerly, O you of restrained observances! ### [1.52.27.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52.27.p1) Thus ends the fifty-second chapter, named 'The Description of Atonements,' in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called the Pūrvakhaṇḍa of the glorious and great Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.52.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.52) · Pramāṇa