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Having bowed down to Sūrya, he should perform this after completing the rites such as offering piṇḍas: ### [1.84.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.12) "Kavyavāha, Soma, Yama, and Aryaman, the Agniṣvāttas, the Barhiṣads, the Somapās, the deities of the ancestors— ### [1.84.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.13) may these exalted ones, protected by you here, arrive! And my own ancestors who were born into my family as blood relations, ### [1.84.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.14) to offer piṇḍas for them I have come to this Gayā." Having offered the piṇḍa at Phalgutīrtha, he should behold the god Pitāmaha. ### [1.84.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.15) Then he should behold Gadādhara, and he will become free of debt to the ancestors. Bathing at Phalgutīrtha and beholding the god Gadādhara, a man ### [1.84.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.16) instantly delivers himself, ten generations before him, and ten generations after. The rule for the first day has been spoken; on the second day he should go ### [1.84.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.17) to Dharmāraṇya and offer piṇḍas and the like at Mataṅga's pool; having reached Dharmāraṇya, he obtains the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice. ### [1.84.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.18) The reward of both a Rājasūya and an Aśvamedha sacrifice is obtained at Brahmatīrthaka; śrāddha and water for piṇḍas must be offered between the well and the sacrificial post. ### [1.84.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.19) That rite must be performed with water from the well, given imperishably to the ancestors. On the third day, having gone to Brahmasadas, having bathed, and having offered libations, ### [1.84.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.20) and having performed rites such as śrāddha and the piṇḍa between the sacrificial post and the well, \[he should honor\] those established by Brahmā from the beginning of creation, situated near Gopracāra. ### [1.84.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.21) By merely serving them, the ancestors attain liberation. Having circumambulated the sacrificial post, he obtains the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice. ### [1.84.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.22) Having bathed at Phalgutīrtha on the fourth day and made libations to the gods and others, he should perform śrāddha at Gayāśīrṣa, on Rudrapada and other sacred spots. ### [1.84.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.23) Offering piṇḍas at Dehimukha, Vyāsa, Pañcāgni, and the three footprints, at Sūrya, Indu, and Kārtikeya, the śrāddha performed becomes imperishable. ### [1.84.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.24) One should perform a śrāddha dedicated to nine deities, or dedicated to twelve deities, on the Anvaṣṭakā days, on occasions of prosperity, at Gayā, and on the anniversary of death. ### [1.84.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.25) Here, a separate śrāddha is performed for the mother, but elsewhere along with her husband. Having bathed at Daśāśvamedha and beheld the god Pitāmaha, ### [1.84.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.26) a man who touches Rudrapāda does not return here again. Whatever reward one obtains by giving the earth filled with wealth three times, ### [1.84.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.27) he obtains that same reward by performing śrāddha at Gayāśira. One should offer a piṇḍa the size of a śamī leaf at Gayāśira; ### [1.84.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.28) the ancestors attain godhood; no doubt should be entertained on this point. The footprint was placed on Muṇḍapṛṣṭha by the wise Mahādeva. ### [1.84.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.29) There, through slight austerity, he attains great merit. And on Gayāśīrṣa, in whose name soever one offers piṇḍas, ### [1.84.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.30) those residing in hell go to heaven, and those residing in heaven attain liberation. On the fifth day, having bathed at Gandālola, then under the banyan tree ### [1.84.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.31) he should offer piṇḍas to the ancestors and deliver his entire lineage. Having approached the root of the banyan tree, with greens or with hot water, ### [1.84.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.32) when one brāhmaṇa is fed, ten million are fed. When the śrāddha is performed at the Akṣayavaṭa and having beheld Prapitāmaha, ### [1.84.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.33) he attains imperishable worlds and redeems a hundred lineages. Many sons should be desired, in case even one might go to Gayā, ### [1.84.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.34) or might perform the Aśvamedha sacrifice, or release a dark bull. A certain ghost, addressing a certain merchant, said: ### [1.84.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.35) "In my name make an offering of piṇḍas at Gayāśīrṣa! I would be freed from the ghostly state, and I would bestow heaven on the giver." ### [1.84.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.36) Hearing \[this\], the merchant offered a funeral ball to the King of the Dead at Gayāśīrṣa / together with his younger brothers; then he offered \[it\] to his own ancestors. ### [1.84.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.37) All were liberated, and Viśāla also became a father, having offered funeral balls. / In Viśālā, a prince named Viśāla had spoken to the twice-born: ### [1.84.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.38) “How may sons and so on be born to me?” And the brāhmaṇas replied to Viśāla: / “By offering funeral balls at Gayā, all will come to pass for you.” ### [1.84.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.39) Then Viśāla offered funeral balls at Gayāśīrṣa and obtained sons. / Having seen in the sky a white, a red, and a black man, he spoke: ### [1.84.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.40) “Who are you?” And among them, the white one said to Viśāla: / “I, the white one, am your father, gone to the auspicious realm of Indra. ### [1.84.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.41) O my son, the red one is my father, a killer of a brāhmaṇa who committed great sins; / this black one is my grandfather, by whom sages were slain. ### [1.84.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.42) The two had reached the hell Avīci, but have become liberated, O giver of funeral balls! / Being all freed thereby, we are going to the supreme heaven.” ### [1.84.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.43) Viśāla too, having accomplished his aim, ruled the kingdom and went to heaven. / “Whatever ancestors in our family have lacked rites of funeral ball and libation water, ### [1.84.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.44) and those whose tonsure was not performed, and those who perished from the womb, / those for whom cremation and rites were not performed, and others who were burned by fire— ### [1.84.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.45) may they be satisfied by what is offered on the earth, and satisfied, may they attain the supreme goal! / Father, grandfather, and likewise great-grandfather; ### [1.84.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.46) mother, paternal grandmother, and likewise paternal great-grandmother; / likewise maternal grandfather and maternal great-grandfather; ### [1.84.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.47) maternal great-great-grandfather, and furthermore maternal grandmother, / maternal great-grandmother, and likewise maternal great-great-grandmother— ### [1.84.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.48) and for others as well, may this funeral ball remain imperishable!” ### [1.84.48.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84.48.p1) Thus ends the eighty-fourth chapter, named ‘The Glory of Gayā’, in the Conduct Section of the first part in the first section of the glorious and great Garuḍa Purāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.84.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.84) · Pramāṇa