[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) › 1.85 # Garudapurana 1.85 English (machine translation) 1.85 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.85.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.23) — 1 part ### [1.85.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.1) The glorious Garuḍa Purāṇa \[Chapter\] 85. / Brahmā said: / Having bathed at the Pretaśilā and other spots, one should offer a funeral ball with \[the water of\] the Varuṇā, which is nectar, / reciting these mantras and invoking the highest ancestors: ### [1.85.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.2) “Those who have died in our family and have no destiny, / all those I shall invoke onto the darbha grass with water mixed with sesamum. ### [1.85.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.3) Those who have died in the paternal lineage and those who have died in the maternal lineage, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.4) Those in the maternal grandfather’s family who have no destiny, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.5) Those whose teeth had not yet grown, and those who perished in the womb, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.6) Whatever kinsmen lack name and lineage, / in one’s own lineage or in another’s lineage, who have no destiny, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.7) Those who died by hanging, and those who were slain by poison or weapons, / and those who committed suicide—to them I offer a funeral ball. ### [1.85.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.8) Those who died in conflagration, and those who were slain by lions or tigers, / or by fanged or horned beasts—to them I offer a funeral ball. ### [1.85.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.9) Those who were cremated, and others who were not cremated, / and those who were killed by lightning or thieves—to them I offer a funeral ball. ### [1.85.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.10) Those who have gone to Raurava, Andhatāmisra, and Kālasūtra, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.11) Those who have gone to the dreadful Asipatravana and to Kumbhīpāka, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.12) For others in places of torment dwelling in the realm of the dead, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.13) Those who have entered the womb of animals—birds, insects, reptiles— / or who exist in the womb of trees—to them I offer a funeral ball. ### [1.85.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.14) Those who are situated in countless torments, led by the decrees of Yama, / for their deliverance, I offer this funeral ball. ### [1.85.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.15) Those wandering through thousands of other births through their own karma, / for whom human birth is difficult to attain—to them I offer a funeral ball. ### [1.85.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.16) Those who are kinsmen or not kinsmen, or who were kinsmen in another birth, / may they all attain perpetual satisfaction through the offering of the funeral ball. ### [1.85.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.17) Whatever ancestors of mine exist in the form of a ghost, / may they all attain perpetual satisfaction through the offering of the funeral ball. ### [1.85.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.18) Those who were born in my father’s family and likewise in the family of my mother, / and other deceased kinsmen of teachers, in-laws, and relatives; ### [1.85.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.19) those in my family who were deprived of funeral balls, destitute of sons and wives, / those ruined by omission of rites, those blind from birth, and the lame; ### [1.85.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.20) the deformed and miscarried fetuses, known and unknown in my family— / may the funeral ball offered by me to them remain imperishable. ### [1.85.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.21) May the gods, Brahmā, Īśāna, and the rest, be my witnesses: / having reached Gayā, liberation of the ancestors has been performed by me. ### [1.85.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.22) I have come to Gayā, O God, for the ancestral rite, O Mace-bearer! / Therefore, be my witness today: I am free from the three debts.” ### [1.85.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.23) The Mahānadī, Brahmasaras, the imperishable banyan tree, Prabhāsa, Udyanta, Gayāśiras, / Sarasvatī, the Dharma river, and Dhenupṛṣṭha—these are reached in the sacred field at Gayā. ### [1.85.23.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85.23.p1) Thus ends the eighty-fifth 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.1.85.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.85) · Pramāṇa