Garudapurana 1.74

English (machine translation) 1.74

Language: English

1.74.5 — 1 part

1.74.1

Sūta said: / From the skin of that enemy of the gods falling upon the snowy mountain, / topazes of great virtue / originate.

1.74.2

A stone that is yellowish-white and pleasing is named padmarāga; / that very same stone, if reddish-yellow, / is called kaukaṇṭaka.

1.74.3

Slightly red, yellow, and clear, it is termed kāṣāyaka; / bluish-white, glossy, and possessing merits, it is a somālaka.

1.74.4

That which is exceedingly red is indeed known as padmarāga; / and that very same stone, when deep blue, / is declared to be an indranīla.

1.74.5

Its value has been declared by the connoisseur of gems to be like that of the cat's-eye gem, / and the fruit of wearing it is likewise; / yet for women it bestows sons.

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Thus ends the seventy-fourth chapter, entitled 'Examination of Topaz', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit