[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) › 2.32 # Garudapurana 2.32 English (machine translation) 2.32 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [2.32.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.130) — 1 part ### [2.32.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.1) Feet, hands, genitals, tongue, hair, nails, head, / numerous joints and passages, and diverse kinds of lines? ### [2.32.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.2) Desire, anger, fear, shame, mind, joy, pleasure and pain, / variegated and perforated, bound by various snares? ### [2.32.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.3) I consider this an illusion in the ocean of this essenceless transmigratory existence. / Who is the maker here, O Hṛṣīkeśa, in this transmigratory existence filled with suffering? ### [2.32.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.4) The glorious Viṣṇu said: / I shall declare the supreme secret: the determination of this sheath, / by the mere knowledge of which omniscience is attained. ### [2.32.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.5) You have asked well, out of compassion, concerning the origin of living beings in the world. / Listen, O son of Vinatā, with a concentrated mind. ### [2.32.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.6) At the time of women's menses, four days must be avoided; / for in that \[period\], the murder of a brahmin that arose from Vṛtra of old, ### [2.32.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.7) Brahmā lifted from Śakra and assigned \[to them\] as a fourth part. / Her face is not to be looked upon as long as that sin remains in her body. ### [2.32.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.8) On the first day she is a cāṇḍālī, on the second a brahmin-slayer, / on the third she should be known as a washerwoman, and on the fourth day she becomes pure. ### [2.32.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.9) After seven days she becomes fit to perform worship for the ancestors and gods. / A fetus conceived within seven days is born an intercalary \[inauspicious\] entity. ### [2.32.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.10) Whatever kind of mental conception the parents have at the time of insemination, / of such nature is the origin of the fetus that is born; of this there is no doubt. ### [2.32.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.11) On even nights sons are born, on odd nights daughters; / having avoided the first seven \[days\], one should therefore unite on even nights. ### [2.32.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.12) Sixteen nights of fertile period are generally stated for women; / if the fetus is lodged on the fourteenth night, ### [2.32.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.13) A son will be born there who is a treasury of virtues and good fortune, and devoted to dharma. / That night is not easily obtained by ordinary people, O King of Birds. ### [2.32.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.14) Generally, conception takes place here within eight days. / On the fifth day, women should eat sweet foods. ### [2.32.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.15) Pungent, alkaline, sharp, and hot foods must be avoided from afar. / That field is a vessel of medicinal herbs, and the seed becomes like nectar. ### [2.32.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.16) Sowing in that \[field\], a man, the master, obtains the proper fruit. / Heat should be avoided by her; she should engage only in what is cooling. ### [2.32.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.17) Provided with betel, flowers, and sandalwood paste, wearing clean garments, / bearing dharma in mind, a man should mount the fine bed. ### [2.32.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.18) Whatever kind of mental conception a man has at the time of insemination, / endowed with such a nature the living being enters into the womb. ### [2.32.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.19) From the union of semen and ovum, the formation of the embryo takes place; / the creature grows in the belly like the moon in the sky. ### [2.32.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.20) Consciousness, in the form of a seed, resides eternally in the semen; / when desire, the mind, and semen reach oneness, ### [2.32.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.21) Then the man discharges fluid into the woman’s womb. / When blood is in excess, a female is formed; when semen is in excess, a male. ### [2.32.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.22) When semen and ovum are equal, the fetuses become eunuchs. / In a day and a night it becomes a mixed mass, in five days a bubble; ### [2.32.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.23) On the fourteenth \[day\] it becomes flesh combined with mixed elements; / on the twentieth day it becomes solid flesh, and growing gradually within the womb, ### [2.32.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.24) On the twenty-fifth day, strength and nourishment arise. / And when a month is completed, it retains the five gross elements. ### [2.32.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.25) When two months have passed, skin and fat are produced; / marrow and bones \[develop\] in three months; hair and fingers in the fourth. ### [2.32.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.26) The ears, nostrils, and chest are formed in the fifth month; / the throat opening and abdomen in the sixth; the genitals and other parts in the seventh month. ### [2.32.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.27) With all limbs and minor parts complete, the fetus reaches eight months; / in the eighth \[month\] the soul moves again and again in the mother’s womb; / when the ninth month is reached, the vigor in the fetus becomes firm. ### [2.32.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.28) Its movement takes place upon the completion of its stay in the womb; / it is born as a female, or a male, or a eunuch. ### [2.32.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.29) Endowed with three powers, large-eyed, equipped with six sheaths, / furnished with five sense organs, adorned with ten channels, ### [2.32.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.30) Endowed with the qualities of the ten vital breaths—he who knows this is a knower of yoga. / Marrow, bone, semen, flesh, hair, blood, and strength: ### [2.32.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.31) This embryonic mass of the living being, made of the five elements, consists of six sheaths. / In the ninth or tenth month, the creature made of the five elements is born. ### [2.32.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.32) This body of a living being is composed of six sheaths and of the five elements; / in the ninth or tenth month, the five-elemental \[body\] is born. ### [2.32.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.33) Drawn out by the winds of childbirth, agitated by pain, / nourished by the suṣumṇā channel, situated in the woman's womb, hastening forth; ### [2.32.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.34) earth, water, the consumer of oblations \[fire\], wind, and space— / afflicted by these elements, bound by the bindings of the sinews. ### [2.32.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.35) These are declared to be the root elements, residing within the seven channels: / skin, bone, channels, body hair, and fifth here is flesh. ### [2.32.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.36) These five qualities of earth have been declared by me, O King of Birds; / listen now, descendant of Kaśyapa, to how the five qualities of water are likewise. ### [2.32.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.37) Saliva, urine, semen, marrow, and blood as the fifth— / these five properties are said to belong to water, and should be known diligently. ### [2.32.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.38) Hunger, thirst, sleep, sloth, and radiance— / fire is said to have five properties everywhere by yogins, O Tārkṣya. ### [2.32.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.39) Desire and aversion, shame, fear, and delusion as well— / this, O Tārkṣya, is declared to be the group of five properties born of wind. ### [2.32.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.40) Contraction, running, leaping, expansion, / and restraint is declared the fifth: these are remembered as the five properties of wind. ### [2.32.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.41) Sound, thought, depth, hearing, and the transition of truth— / these five properties of space should be known with effort, O Tārkṣya. ### [2.32.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.42) The ear, skin, eyes, tongue, and nose are the sense-organs of perception; / hands, feet, anus, and genitalia are the organs of action. ### [2.32.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.43) Iḍā, Piṅgalā, and Suṣumṇā as the third, / Gāndhārī, Gajajihvā, Pūṣā, and Yaśasvinī, ### [2.32.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.44) Alambuṣā, Kuhū, and Śaṅkhinī is remembered as the tenth; / these ten principal channels indeed reside within the body. ### [2.32.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.45) Prāṇa, apāna, samāna, udāna, and vyāna, / nāga, kūrma, kṛkara, devadatta, and dhanañjaya— ### [2.32.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.46) these ten vital airs are declared to be well established within bodies. / The food consumed alone provides nourishment to all embodied beings; ### [2.32.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.47) the life-giving vital air conducts it through all joints in the body. / But food, as soon as it is eaten, is divided twofold by the vital air: ### [2.32.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.48) entering the stomach properly, it separates the food and separates the water; / placing the water above the fire, and that food upon the water, ### [2.32.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.49) and the prāṇa, standing below the fire, gently fans that fire. / Fanned by the vital air, the fire separates the waste and separates the essence. ### [2.32.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.50) The waste, divided by the twelve impurities, departs from the body: / ears, eyes, nostrils, tongue, teeth, navel, body\[-pores\], anus, ### [2.32.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.51) and the nails are indeed the receptacles of impurity, along with feces and urine as the rest. / From the union of semen and ovum, this \[body\] composed of six sheaths is remembered. ### [2.32.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.52) There are thirty-five million body hairs, / and thirty-two teeth are declared as the standard, O son of Vinatā. ### [2.32.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.53) There are seven hundred thousand hairs of the head, and twenty nails are declared; / one thousand palas of flesh are standardly established in the body. ### [2.32.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.54) One hundred palas of blood, O Tārkṣya, was understood by the ancients, / and ten palas of fat, with skin equal to that. ### [2.32.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.55) Twelve palas of marrow, three palas of vital blood; / semen is known to be two kuḍavas, and ovum is remembered as one kuḍava. ### [2.32.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.56) Phlegm is six \[kuḍavas\] or more, and feces and urine in proportion to that; / the bones are indeed declared to exceed three hundred and sixty. ### [2.32.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.57) Thus the body has been described; now we shall declare its condition: / happiness, misery, fear, and well-being are attained solely through karma. ### [2.32.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.58) Head downward and feet upward, the vital air draws \[the fetus\] out from the womb; / placing its hands beneath, it grows beside its knees, ### [2.32.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.59) with both thumbs placed above, fingers against the knees, / the eyes on the surface of the knees, and the nose between the knees. ### [2.32.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.60) In this way the living being situated in the woman's womb gradually grows; / the bones attain hardness, and it lives on what is eaten and drunk \[by the mother\]. ### [2.32.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.61) The channel named Āpyāyanī is fastened there to the navel; / attached thus to the cavity of the woman's intestines, it develops. ### [2.32.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.62) Things eaten and drunk enter the womb of women; / nourished by them, this living being attains growth. ### [2.32.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.63) There, many memories of past births in saṃsāra come to it; / then, afflicted from all sides, it experiences despondency: ### [2.32.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.64) "I will never do so again as soon as I am free from this womb; / I will strive in such a way that I shall not enter a womb again!" ### [2.32.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.65) Thus thinking, the individual soul remembers hundreds of births, / which were previously experienced as gods, elements, and living beings. ### [2.32.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.66) Then, in the course of time, the living being is turned downward, / and is born in the ninth or tenth month. ### [2.32.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.67) Being driven out by the prājāpatya wind, it suffers pain; / and it emerges wailing at that time, tormented by misery. ### [2.32.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.68) Coming out of the belly, it falls into an unbearable faint, / and regaining consciousness, it feels pleasure at the contact with air. ### [2.32.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.69) Then the deluding Vaiṣṇava māyā overtakes it; / bewildered by it, that soul suffers the loss of its knowledge. ### [2.32.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.70) Deprived of knowledge, the creature then falls into infancy; / then into childhood, youth, and also old age. ### [2.32.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.71) And again, just so, a human attains death and birth; / then it is whirled around in this wheel of saṃsāra like a water-wheel. ### [2.32.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.72) Sometimes a person reaches heaven, and sometimes hell; / he enjoys heaven and hell as the fruit of his own deeds. ### [2.32.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.73) Sometimes, having consumed his karma, he goes to the earth with a remainder; / when \[karma\] in heaven and in hell is mostly consumed, O best of the twice-born. ### [2.32.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.74) This is great suffering in hells: dwellers in heaven see this / and do not rejoice here, as beings are cast down by the tormentors of hell. ### [2.32.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.75) Even in heaven there is incomparable misery, because from the time of ascent / onward, this thought dwells in the mind: "I shall fall!" ### [2.32.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.76) And beholding the denizens of hell, great sorrow is felt; / thinking, "I too shall go to such a state," one is day and night without peace. ### [2.32.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.77) There is great suffering in living in the womb, and born of the vagina for the one being born; / for the one born there is suffering even in childhood, and suffering in old age, ### [2.32.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.78) and in youth too, intolerable \[pain\] from association with desire, envy, and wrath; / old age is like a nightmare, and in death there is acute agony. ### [2.32.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.79) Dragged by the servants of Yama, he goes down even to hell; / and again there is birth from a womb, and difficult death likewise. ### [2.32.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.80) Thus in this wheel of saṃsāra, living beings, like pots on a water-wheel, / are turned around, bound by previous bonds, and are pierced again and again. ### [2.32.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.81) There is not the slightest happiness, O bird, in this field filled with hundreds of sorrows; / therefore, O son of Vinatā, humans must strive for liberation. ### [2.32.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.82) All this has been explained to you, how the condition of the fetus is; / I shall answer subsequent questions, or whatever inquiry you desire. ### [2.32.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.83) Garuḍa said: I have received the answer to two of the great questions asked earlier; let the answer to the third question also be given. ### [2.32.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.84) The blessed Kṛṣṇa said: You asked, “What is to be done for a dying man?” Listen, then, to the answer: I shall speak it in brief. ### [2.32.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.85) Knowing a man to be near death, one should then bathe him with cow urine, cow dung, good earth, water from sacred places, and water with kuśa grass. ### [2.32.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.86) Then, having clothed him in two washed, pure, and auspicious garments, first spreading out darbha grass and scattering \[it\] with tips pointing south, ### [2.32.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.87) one should place him there, upon the ground smeared with cow dung, \[along with\] sesame seeds. ### [2.32.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.88) Or with his head to the east or north, one should place gold in his mouth; a Śālagrāma stone and tulasī, O King of Birds, ### [2.32.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.89) should be placed nearby; furthermore, one should light a ghee lamp. Likewise, there should be recitation: “Obeisance to the Blessed Vāsudeva.” ### [2.32.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.90) Having first uttered the Praṇava, worship and gift-giving are then enjoined. Then, having worshiped Hṛṣīkeśa with flowers, incense, and other offerings, ### [2.32.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.91) one should worship with prostrations, holy hymns of praise, and the yoga of meditation; and having given gifts to Brahmins, as well as to the poor and destitute, ### [2.32.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.92) and remembering the feet of Viṣṇu in his heart, he should turn away his sense of mineness toward sons, friends, wife, fields, grain, wealth, and the like. ### [2.32.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.93) If it is an exceptional distress, then sons and others should loudly recite the Puruṣasūkta when their own kinsman is dying. ### [2.32.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.94) All this duty when death has arrived has been explained to you; I will also tell you briefly the fruit of all this. ### [2.32.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.95) By the bath, purity is obtained and impurity is removed; then the remembrance of Viṣṇu, because of his knowledge, grants all fruits. ### [2.32.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.96) A bed of darbha grass leads the afflicted person to heaven, no doubt; when sesame seeds and darbha grass are cast down, the bath becomes equal to a Vedic sacrifice. ### [2.32.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.97) Brahmā, Viṣṇu, Rudra, Śrī, and Agni stand upon the mandala; therefore one should make a mandala. ### [2.32.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.98) With the head directed here to the east or north, he goes to the supreme world, provided that a man's sin is small, O bird. ### [2.32.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.99) When the five gems are placed in the mouth, knowledge sprouts in the soul. Tulasī, Brahmins, cows, Viṣṇu, and the Ekādaśī, O bird— ### [2.32.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.100) these are the five boats for men sinking in the ocean of worldly existence: Viṣṇu, the Ekādaśī, the Gītā, tulasī, and Brahmins’ cows. ### [2.32.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.101) In this worthless, impassable worldly existence, this sixfold practice bestows devotion: a man reciting “Obeisance to the Blessed Vāsudeva” ### [2.32.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.102) preceded by the syllable Oṃ attains union \[with him\], of this there is no doubt; and by worship he attains my world, or goes quickly to heaven. ### [2.32.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.103) When attachment is absent, knowledge arises from the Puruṣasūkta regarding mineness. Whatever superiority there is in these means, O Kaśyapa, ### [2.32.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.104) understand that there is a corresponding superiority in their fruit. Gifts should be given according to one’s capacity; he will always be pleased. ### [2.32.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.105) All this fruit regarding the bath and the rest has been explained to you by me. Whatever qualities exist in the universe are situated in the body. ### [2.32.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.106) The nether worlds, mountains, worlds, and the other continents and oceans, all the planets beginning with the sun are situated within the body. ### [2.32.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.107) Below the feet Tala is to be known, and above the feet Vitala; know Sutala in the knees, and Mahātala in the region of the thighs. ### [2.32.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.108) Likewise Talātala is in the upper thigh, and Rasātala in the private parts; the wise man should perceive Pātāla situated in the hips, beginning from the feet. ### [2.32.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.109) Bhūrloka is in the middle of the navel, and Bhuvarloka above it; one should know Svargaloka in the heart, and Mahas in the region of the throat. ### [2.32.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.110) Janaloka is in the region of the mouth, Tapoloka on the forehead, and Satyaloka in the crown of the head; these are the fourteen worlds. ### [2.32.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.111) Meru is situated in the triangle, and Mandara in the lower corner; Kailāsa is on the right side, and the Himālaya on the left. ### [2.32.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.112) Niṣadha is in the upper part, and Gandhamādana on the right; Malaya is on the left line: these are the seven principal mountain ranges. ### [2.32.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.113) Jambūdvīpa is located in the place of bones; Śākadvīpa is situated in the marrow; Kuśadvīpa is situated in the flesh; Krauñcadvīpa is situated in the veins. ### [2.32.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.114) Śālmalidvīpa is in the skin; Plakṣadvīpa is in the mass of body hair; Puṣkaradvīpa is in the nails; and next are the oceans. ### [2.32.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.115) The salt ocean is in the urine; the ocean of milk is in the alkaline fluid; the ocean of wine is in phlegm; the ocean of clarified butter is in the marrow. ### [2.32.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.116) One should know the ocean of sugarcane juice in chyle, the ocean of curds in the blood, the ocean of sweet water in the uvula, and the Garbha ocean situated in semen. ### [2.32.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.117) The sun is situated in the nāda-cakra, and the moon in the bindu-cakra; Mars is to be known in the eyes, and Mercury is held to be in the heart. ### [2.32.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.118) One should know Jupiter in the place of Viṣṇu; Venus is situated in the semen; Saturn is situated in the place of the navel; Rāhu is always situated in the mouth. ### [2.32.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.119) Ketu is situated in the anus; the planetary circle in the body has been explained as divided from the soles of the feet to the head. ### [2.32.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.120) Those who are born in worldly existence die without a doubt. Fierce hunger and thirst, and fainting born of burning heat— ### [2.32.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.121) where these terrible pains occur, they are indeed like those born of scorpion stings; and destruction happens to all embodied beings when their time is complete. ### [2.32.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.122) They run ahead and ahead of him who has gone to Yama's world through heated sand, through blazing fire. ### [2.32.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.123) Seized by the hair, they are led by Yama's attendants; they are the most sinful and degraded, O Tārkṣya, destitute of compassion and dharma. ### [2.32.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.124) These dwell in Yama's world, and no birth in a womb is found \[for them\]; thus a creature in the mortal world is born, O Tārkṣya, by his own karmas. ### [2.32.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.125) Those who are born in worldly existence die without a doubt. Lifespan, karma, wealth, learning, and death itself— ### [2.32.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.126) these five are created for the embodied being while still in the womb. By karma a creature is born, by karma alone it perishes. ### [2.32.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.127) Pleasure, pain, fear, and security are attained solely through past actions; head downwards and feet upwards, the vital wind forces \[the embryo\] out of the womb. ### [2.32.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.128) From birth, the Vaiṣṇava illusion deludes \[the creature\] at once; bound by actions done by itself, the living being undergoes birth. ### [2.32.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.129) From good deeds, one is born in a noble family, possessing the highest pleasures to be enjoyed; in proportion as evil deeds \[were done\], one is born in a lowly family. ### [2.32.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.130) The evildoer is poor, diseased, foolish, and a vessel of sorrow. Why should I tell you beyond this, O Lord of Birds? ### [2.32.130.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32.130.p1) Thus ends the thirty-second chapter, entitled 'Description of the Division of the Worlds and the Division of the Elements and States of Living Beings at Birth' in the dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa on dharma and pretas, in the Uttarakhaṇḍa of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.32.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.32) · Pramāṇa