Garudapurana 1.66

English (machine translation) 1.66

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1.66.23 — 1 part

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The Holy Garuḍapurāṇa — 66 / Hari said: / Even a woman without auspicious marks becomes auspicious by worshiping the stone marked with the discus. / First is the form Sudarśana, then Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa.

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He with three discs is Acyuta; he with four discs is the four-armed [form]. / Next are known Vāsudeva, Pradyumna, and Saṅkarṣaṇa.

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Puruṣottama is the eighth; the ninefold array has ten forms. / The eleventh is Aniruddha; the twelfth has twelve forms.

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Beyond that is Ananta, with discus, lines, and so on in order. / Marked with Sudarśana and worshiped, they grant all desires.

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Where the Śālagrāma stone is, and the deity born in Dvāravatī, / where the union of the two exists, there liberation is without doubt.

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Śālagrāma, Dvārakā, Naimiṣa, Puṣkara, Gayā, / Vārāṇasī, Prayāga, Kurukṣetra, and Sūkara,

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the Gaṅgā, the Narmadā, the Candrabhāgā, the Sarasvatī, / Puruṣottama, and Mahākāla—these are the sacred sites, O Śaṅkara.

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They take away all sins and bestow both enjoyment and liberation. / Prabhava, Vibhava, Śukla, Pramoda, then Prajāpati,

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Aṅgiras, Śrīmukha, Bhāva, Yuvā, and likewise Dhātā, / Īśvara, Bahudhānya, Pramāthin, Vikrama, Viṣu,

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Citrabhānu, Subhānu, Tāraṇa, Pārthiva, Vyaya, / Sarvajit, Sarvadhārin, Virodhin, Vikṛti, Khara,

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Nandana, Vijaya, Jaya, Manmatha, Durmukha, / Hemalamba, Vilamba, Vikāra, Śarvarī, Plava,

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Śubhakṛt, Śobhana, Krodhin, Viśvāvasu, Parābhava, / Plavaṅga, Kīlaka, Saumya, Sādhāraṇa, Virodhakṛt,

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Paridhāvin, Pramādin, Ānanda, Rākṣasa, Nala, / Piṅgala, Kālasiddhārtha, Raudra, and Durmati,

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Dundubhi, Rudhirodgārin, Raktākṣa, Krodhana, and Akṣaya— / these years are inauspicious or auspicious by their very names.

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O Rudra, I will declare time for the attainment of success through the rising of the five vowels: / King, Sā[mā], Jā, Udāsā, Affliction, and Death.

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One should write the vowels ā, ī, ū, ai, and au in the five fire-cells, / with lines running vertically and horizontally, drawn in sixfold fire order.

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The lunar days in the single fire-cells are three: King, then Sā[mā], Jayā, / Udāsā, Death, and Affliction; Mars and the son of Soma in order,

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Jupiter and Venus, Saturn, and the Sun and the Moon as stated. / The lunar mansions from Revatī to Mṛgaśīrṣa are the first phase;

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five asterisms each [belong] elsewhere; likewise the rising starting with Caitra. / In twelve days of the two months, and the first letter of the name,

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and whichever sign-phase it stands in, the fifth from it brings death: / the phase, the lunar day, the weekday, the lunar mansion, and the month.

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[The effect] is as stated before the rising of the name, and not otherwise. / Om kṣaiṃ (kṣauḥ), homage to Śiva!

[With the mantra] beginning with kṣām, having the eyes of Śiva upon the limbs, [which] removes the poison and influence of malevolent planets, / the seed-syllable bewitching the three worlds, belonging to Nṛsiṃha, [and that of] the serpent,

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the Mṛtyuñjaya [mantra], Gaṇa, and Lakṣmī, inscribed with rocanā and other [substances] / upon birch bark and worn at the neck and upon the arm, grant victory and other [blessings].

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Thus ends the sixty-sixth chapter, named 'The Examination of Śālagrāmas, the Sixty-Year Cycle, and Svarodaya in the Science of Astrology', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section called the Pūrvakhaṇḍa in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit