[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) › 1.99 # Garudapurana 1.99 English (machine translation) 1.99 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [1.99.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.45) — 1 part ### [1.99.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.1) The auspicious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa — \[Chapter\] 99 Yājñavalkya said: Now I shall declare the rite of śrāddha that destroys all sins: The new-moon day, the aṣṭakās, an occasion of growth, the dark fortnight, the two solstices, ### [1.99.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.2) the availability of materials and brāhmaṇas, the equinox, the sun's ingress into a zodiac sign, the vyatīpāta yoga, the gajacchāyā conjunction, eclipses of the moon and sun, ### [1.99.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.3) and the desire for a śrāddha—these are declared to be the times for śrāddha. A preeminent brāhmaṇa among all deities, one learned in the Veda, young, ### [1.99.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.4) who knows the meaning of the Vedas, sings the Jyeṣṭhasāman, knows the Trimadhu and Trisuparṇa, a sister's son, an officiating priest, a son-in-law, one who performs sacrifices, a father-in-law, a maternal uncle, ### [1.99.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.5) one who has kept the Triṇāciketa fire, a daughter's son, a pupil, relatives, kinsmen, those devoted to rites, those devoted to austerities, keepers of the five fires, and celibate students, ### [1.99.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.6) and those devoted to father and mother—such brāhmaṇas are deities of the śrāddha. A diseased person, one with deficient or surplus limbs, a one-eyed man, the son of a remarried woman, ### [1.99.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.7) one who has broken his vow of celibacy and the like, those who are devoid of proper conduct, and all those who are not Vaiṣṇavas, are never fit for a śrāddha. ### [1.99.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.8) One should invite them on the preceding day, and the twice-born must remain restrained. / Having their feet washed in the forenoon, he should seat them upon their seats. ### [1.99.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.9) An even number for the gods and likewise for the ancestral rites in their respective places, according to one's capacity: / two facing east for the divine, three facing north for the ancestral, or one for each separately. ### [1.99.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.10) The same applies to the maternal grandfathers, or the Vaiśvadeva rite may be performed together. / Having given water for washing the hands, and kuśa grass for a seat, ### [1.99.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.11) and having invoked \[them\], permitted by them, with the verse 'O Viśvedevas', / he should scatter food along with barley into a vessel containing a strainer. ### [1.99.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.12) Having poured water with the verse 'May the waters be auspicious to us', and barley with 'You are barley', / he should cast it directly into their hands with the mantra 'You are divine'. ### [1.99.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.13) Along with perfumed water, \[he offers\] a lamp, a garland of flowers, and an illumination. / Then, wearing the sacred thread over the right shoulder, circumambulating to the left for the ancestors, ### [1.99.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.14) and offering double-folded kuśa grass, having invoked the ancestors with the verse 'Desiring you', / permitted by them, he should then chant 'May they come to us'. ### [1.99.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.15) The purpose of barley should be served with sesame seeds, and he should perform the arghya offering and the rest as before. / Having offered the arghya and put their residual drops into a vessel according to rule, ### [1.99.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.16) he turns the vessel upside down with the mantra 'You are a place for the ancestors'. / Saying 'I shall offer into the fire', taking food soaked in clarified butter, he asks \[their permission\]. ### [1.99.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.17) When told 'Do so', having offered into the fire as in an ancestral sacrifice, / he should attentively place the remainder of the offering into the vessels, ### [1.99.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.18) in vessels obtained according to means, especially silver ones. / Having served the food, consecrating the vessel with 'The earth is your vessel', ### [1.99.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.19) and saying 'This is Viṣṇu', he should dip the thumb of the twice-born \[into the food\]. / Having recited the Gāyatrī with the sacred utterances, and the verses 'May the winds blow sweet', ### [1.99.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.20) he should say 'Eat at your pleasure', and they too should eat while keeping silent. / Being free from anger and without haste, he should give delicious and sacrificial food. ### [1.99.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.21) Until they are satisfied, chanting the purificatory verses and likewise the previous recitation, / taking the food, he asks 'Are you satisfied?' and having consecrated the remnant, ### [1.99.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.22) he should scatter that food on the ground and offer water once and once again. / Taking all the food mixed with sesame seeds, facing south, ### [1.99.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.23) he should offer the piṇḍas near the remnants of the meal as in an ancestral sacrifice. / He should do likewise for the maternal grandfathers, and then offer sipping water. ### [1.99.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.24) Then he should utter the benediction and offer inexhaustible water. / And having given a sacrificial fee according to his capacity, he should pronounce the svadhā-call. ### [1.99.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.25) Permitted with 'Let it be spoken', he says 'Let svadhā be spoken to the ancestors'. / Being told by the brāhmaṇas 'Let there be svadhā', he should then sprinkle water on the ground. ### [1.99.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.26) Saying 'May they be pleased', offering water for the Viśvedevas, \[he prays:\] / 'May our donors increase, and so too the Vedas and our progeny! ### [1.99.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.27) May faith not depart from us, and may we have much to give!' / Having spoken these agreeable words and bowed low, he should dismiss them. ### [1.99.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.28) With the verse 'In every contest', he gladly performs the dismissal, beginning with the ancestors. / The vessel in which those residual drops of the arghya were previously poured— ### [1.99.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.29) having turned that ancestral vessel upright, he should dismiss the brāhmaṇas. / Having followed them in circumambulation, he should eat what was enjoyed by the ancestors. ### [1.99.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.30) He should remain celibate for that night together with his wife. / Having thus performed circumambulation, at an auspicious rite he should also worship the Nāndīmukha ancestors. ### [1.99.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.31) He should worship them with piṇḍas mixed with jujubes and prepared with barley. / The rite for a single deceased person is devoid of the divine rite, has one portion of food, and one strainer. ### [1.99.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.32) It is devoid of the invocation and the offering into fire, but is done with the sacred thread over the right shoulder. / In place of the inexhaustible water, saying 'May it reach \[him\]', he should dismiss the brāhmaṇas. ### [1.99.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.33) He should say 'May you be pleased', and they should say 'We are pleased'. / He should prepare four vessels mixed with perfumed water and sesame seeds. ### [1.99.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.34) For the purpose of arghya, he should pour the vessel for the newly deceased into the vessels for the ancestors, / with the two verses 'Those who are equal', and perform the rest as before. ### [1.99.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.35) This is the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa rite; a rite for a single deceased person is also for a woman. / For one whose sapiṇḍīkaraṇa occurs before a full year, ### [1.99.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.36) the twice-born should also give him food with a water pot for one year, / and should give piṇḍas to a cow, a goat, or brāhmaṇas, or cast them into fire or water. ### [1.99.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.37) With sacrificial food indeed for a month, but with rice-milk porridge for a year; / with the flesh of fish, deer, rams, birds, goats, and spotted deer, ### [1.99.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.38) and with the flesh of the black antelope, the ruru deer, boar, and hare in order, / the ancestors here are pleased for an increasing number of months when they are offered. ### [1.99.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.39) One should offer on the thirteenth lunar day of the rainy season and under the Maghā asterism without doubt. / Thus, starting from the first lunar day, one who offers śrāddha in Virgo and the other signs obtains \[fruits\]. ### [1.99.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.40) For those slain by weapons, however, the offering is made on the fourteenth lunar day. / \[He obtains\] heaven, progeny, vigor, heroism, land, and strength, ### [1.99.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.41) the preeminence of sons, good fortune, prosperity, primacy, auspiciousness, / unimpeded authority, and success in trade and other pursuits, ### [1.99.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.42) freedom from disease, fame, freedom from sorrow, the highest state, / wealth, learning, perfection of speech, base metal, cattle, goats, and sheep, ### [1.99.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.43) horses, and long life. The one who duly performs the śrāddha / under the lunar mansions from Kṛttikā to Bharaṇī obtains these desires. ### [1.99.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.44) The brāhmaṇas pleased with garments and other gifts surely bless the man who performs the śrāddha / with long life, offspring, wealth, learning, heaven, liberation, and happiness; ### [1.99.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.45) and the grandfather constantly bestows kingdom with pleasure, as desired. ### [1.99.45.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99.45.p1) Thus ends the ninety-ninth chapter, entitled 'Determination of the Rules of Śrāddha Spoken by Yājñavalkya', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first part of the first section in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.99.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.1.99) · Pramāṇa