[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) › 2.8 # Garudapurana 2.8 English (machine translation) 2.8 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [2.8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.33) — 1 part ### [2.8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa \[Chapter\] 8. / Garuḍa said: / Master, who has authority here in all the funeral rites? / Of how many kinds are the rites said to be? Tell me all this. ### [2.8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.2) Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / A son, a grandson, a great-grandson, or his brother, the offspring of a brother, / or the offspring of a sapiṇḍa, or kinsmen, O bird, are eligible for the rites. ### [2.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.3) In the absence of all these, the offspring of a samānodaka \[is eligible\]. / Even when both families are extinct, the rites are to be performed by women, O bird. ### [2.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.4) And the king may voluntarily have the rites performed for one whose kin is severed: / the preliminary rites, the intermediate rites, and likewise the final rites. ### [2.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.5) Every year, O bird, according to the rule of the ekoddiṣṭa rite, / a śrāddha should be performed there; hear from Me its fruit. ### [2.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.6) Brahmā, Indra, Rudra, the Nāsatyas, the Sun, Agni, the Vasus, the Maruts, / the Viśvedevas, the hosts of ancestors, birds, humans, beasts, ### [2.8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.7) reptiles, the hosts of Mothers, and whatever else is designated as living beings: / performing the śrāddha endowed with faith, he propitiates the entire world. ### [2.8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.8) They, being satisfied, gratify him with sons, wives, and wealth. / The authority and the division of rites have been described to you in brief. ### [2.8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.9) Garuḍa said: / If not even one among those mentioned should be the authorized person, O best of gods, / what should be done then, O Viṣṇu, by a prudent person? ### [2.8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.10) Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / When there is no authority, and if there is no certainty, / a man should offer the śrāddha for his living self while he is still alive. ### [2.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.11) Having observed a fast, having bathed well, attached to Kṛṣṇa, and concentrated in mind, / he should worship Viṣṇu, the Lord of all, the agent and the enjoyer. ### [2.8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.12) Together with sacrificial fees and with sesame seeds, three water-cows / he should offer to the ancestors, chanting 'svadhā', being well-composed: ### [2.8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.13) chanting 'svadhā, obeisance to Agni, carrier of the funeral offerings', / and chanting 'svadhā, obeisance to Soma accompanied by the ancestors'. ### [2.8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.14) With a sacrificial fee, he should offer the third accompanied by dakṣiṇā, / chanting 'svadhā, obeisance to Yama and the Āṅgirasa'. ### [2.8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.15) Placing \[the gifts\] between those two, he should consecrate the brāhmaṇas with mantras and feed them: / having placed the first in the north, he should place the second in the south; ### [2.8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.16) having placed the third in the middle, thereafter \[perform\] the invocation and other rites. / Having first worshipped the Viśvedevas with invocation and other rites, ### [2.8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.17) he should say to them: 'I feed you, O vipra, as the Vasus; I feed you next, O vipra, as the Rudras; / I feed you, O vipra, as the Sūryas.' ### [2.8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.18) The remaining rites of invocation and the rest he should perform like those for the ancestors. / Then he should give a cow in the north to a twice-born intended for the Vasus, ### [2.8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.19) in the south-east for the Rudra, and in the south for the Sūrya twice-born; / and he should present a vessel of sesame seeds to the Viśvedevas. ### [2.8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.20) Saying 'May there be welfare' and likewise giving imperishable water, he should then dismiss those twice-born, / remembering Viṣṇu, the all-pervading eight-syllabled God. ### [2.8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.21) Then he may remember at will Kuleśānī, Śiva, and Nārāyaṇa. / Then on the fourteenth day he should go to whichever excellent river is found. ### [2.8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.22) Garments and pieces of iron, muttering 'Victory unto You', / facing south, he should ignite the fire there himself. ### [2.8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.23) Making an effigy of Brahmā out of fifty kuśa blades, he should burn it, / having offered the funeral-ground fire sacrifice concluding with the final oblation. ### [2.8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.24) He should remember the fireless ground, or Yama and Rudra. / Having offered an oblation in the principal place, he should thereafter invoke him. ### [2.8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.25) He should then cook another offering mixed with mung beans in the fire, / and a second one mixed with sesame and rice, with a pavitra ring. ### [2.8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.26) He should offer the one saying: 'Oṃ, obeisance to you, O Earth', / and immediately after, the second saying: 'Oṃ, obeisance to Yama.' ### [2.8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.27) Then saying: 'Oṃ, obeisance to Rudra, obeisance to the Lord of the cremation ground', / in the blazing, ignited fire upon the inherently terrible ground, ### [2.8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.28) he should offer seven handfuls of water to the seven named Yamas: / to Yama, to Dharmarāja, to Mṛtyu, and to Antaka; ### [2.8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.29) To Vaivasvata, to Time, and to the Destroyer of all life, / sevenfold, along with the exclamation of svadhā, obeisance, and the praṇava. ### [2.8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.30) ‘Let this water with sesame seeds be for you, \[name\], of such-and-such lineage!’ / Then he should offer the ten rice-balls, along with argha-water and flowers: ### [2.8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.31) ‘May incense, lamp, oblation, and fragrant paste be imperishable for all!’ / Having given the gifts of the ten rice-balls, he should meditate on the gentle face of Viṣṇu. ### [2.8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.32) And he should perform the monthly \[śrāddha\] month by month, and then the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa rite. / Then at the end of the period of impurity he should perform it, whether for himself or for another who has died. ### [2.8.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.33) Knowing the impermanence of strength, health, wealth, and life-span, he should perform it. / All this living-śrāddha has been narrated to you by me, O bird. ### [2.8.33.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8.33.p1) Thus ends the eighth chapter, named ‘The Determination of the Performer of Śrāddha and the Living-Śrāddha,’ in the Pretakalpa of the ritual section, the second part of the Latter Section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, in the dialogue between Śrī Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.2.8.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.2.8) · Pramāṇa