Garudapurana 1.75
English (machine translation) 1.75
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- 1.75.7 — 1 part
1.75.1
Sūta said: / Vāyu, having seized the claws of the lord of the Daityas, joyfully cast them into auspicious lotus groves; / thence was born, produced by the wind, / the karketana gem, most revered upon earth.
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In colour it shines like blood, the moon, and honey, illuminated with copper, yellow, and fire; / but blue, white, rough, or fractured, / it shines adversely, causing diseases and other defects.
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Glossy, pure, evenly tinted, yellowish in colour, / heavy, variegated, and free from flaws, fractures, and serpentine veins— / those karketanas are exceedingly pure.
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When wrapped in a sheet of gold and heated in fire it becomes luminous, / it destroys disease, ends strife, / increases lifespan, expands the family line, and bestows happiness.
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Men who wear such a karketana gem endowed with many virtues for auspicious adornment / become revered, endowed with great wealth and many kinsmen, / and are ever radiant and joyful.
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Some, having tied on [stones of] deformed and murky blue luster, faint colour, / turbid, disfigured, lacking fire, intense brilliance, and fullness of hue, / merely bear a semblance of the karketana.
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If a karketana, examined for colour and form, is brilliant like the newly risen sun, / the value of that weighed gem should be appraised as equal / to that which is declared by the majesty of connoisseurs of the gem treatises.
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Thus ends the seventy-fifth chapter, entitled 'Examination of Karketana', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part of the first section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.
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- Garuḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit