[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) › 1.66 # Garudapurana 1.66 English (machine translation) 1.66 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.66.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.23) — 1 part ### [1.66.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.1) 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. ### [1.66.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.2) He with three discs is Acyuta; he with four discs is the four-armed \[form\]. / Next are known Vāsudeva, Pradyumna, and Saṅkarṣaṇa. ### [1.66.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.3) Puruṣottama is the eighth; the ninefold array has ten forms. / The eleventh is Aniruddha; the twelfth has twelve forms. ### [1.66.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.4) Beyond that is Ananta, with discus, lines, and so on in order. / Marked with Sudarśana and worshiped, they grant all desires. ### [1.66.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.5) Where the Śālagrāma stone is, and the deity born in Dvāravatī, / where the union of the two exists, there liberation is without doubt. ### [1.66.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.6) Śālagrāma, Dvārakā, Naimiṣa, Puṣkara, Gayā, / Vārāṇasī, Prayāga, Kurukṣetra, and Sūkara, ### [1.66.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.7) the Gaṅgā, the Narmadā, the Candrabhāgā, the Sarasvatī, / Puruṣottama, and Mahākāla—these are the sacred sites, O Śaṅkara. ### [1.66.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.8) They take away all sins and bestow both enjoyment and liberation. / Prabhava, Vibhava, Śukla, Pramoda, then Prajāpati, ### [1.66.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.9) Aṅgiras, Śrīmukha, Bhāva, Yuvā, and likewise Dhātā, / Īśvara, Bahudhānya, Pramāthin, Vikrama, Viṣu, ### [1.66.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.10) Citrabhānu, Subhānu, Tāraṇa, Pārthiva, Vyaya, / Sarvajit, Sarvadhārin, Virodhin, Vikṛti, Khara, ### [1.66.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.11) Nandana, Vijaya, Jaya, Manmatha, Durmukha, / Hemalamba, Vilamba, Vikāra, Śarvarī, Plava, ### [1.66.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.12) Śubhakṛt, Śobhana, Krodhin, Viśvāvasu, Parābhava, / Plavaṅga, Kīlaka, Saumya, Sādhāraṇa, Virodhakṛt, ### [1.66.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.13) Paridhāvin, Pramādin, Ānanda, Rākṣasa, Nala, / Piṅgala, Kālasiddhārtha, Raudra, and Durmati, ### [1.66.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.14) Dundubhi, Rudhirodgārin, Raktākṣa, Krodhana, and Akṣaya— / these years are inauspicious or auspicious by their very names. ### [1.66.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.15) 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. ### [1.66.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.16) 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. ### [1.66.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.17) 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, ### [1.66.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.18) Jupiter and Venus, Saturn, and the Sun and the Moon as stated. / The lunar mansions from Revatī to Mṛgaśīrṣa are the first phase; ### [1.66.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.19) 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, ### [1.66.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.20) 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. ### [1.66.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.21) \[The effect\] is as stated before the rising of the name, and not otherwise. / Om kṣaiṃ (kṣauḥ), homage to Śiva! ### [1.66.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.22) \[With the mantra\] 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, ### [1.66.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.23) 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 \[blessings\]. ### [1.66.23.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66.23.p1) 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. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.66.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.66) · Pramāṇa