[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) › 3.23 # Garudapurana 3.23 English (machine translation) 3.23 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [3.23.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.48) — 1 part ### [3.23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.1) Garuḍamahāpurāṇa — 23 Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / In a previous creation, the daughter of Soma became my wife Jāmbavatī, dear to me. / Among them, O King of Birds, she was slightly superior, lacking by five qualities in comparison to Rudra and the others. ### [3.23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.2) When the divine possession of Ramā is powerful, then Keśava is pleased with her indeed. / When, by the wane of that possession, she diminishes in course of time, then the great say she is equal to the others. ### [3.23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.3) There is constantly some degree of possession by Lakṣmī, and therefore she possesses a slight superiority over them. ### [3.23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.4) Garuḍa said: / Among them, O Kṛṣṇa, what kind of worship did Jāmbavatī perform? / Tell me that out of compassion, O you whose form is the universe, \[and explain\] the reason for her superiority over them. ### [3.23.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.5) Thus addressed by Garuḍa, the Lord, the son of Devakī, / spoke to the son of Vinatā in a voice deep as a thundercloud. ### [3.23.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.6) Śrī Kṛṣṇa said: / She who was the daughter of Soma in a previous creation, even while living in her father's house, the virtuous woman / made her life meaningful along with her father through service to Viṣṇu. ### [3.23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.7) She constantly listened to the true Purāṇas and always bowed down to Viṣṇu's feet; / she constantly circumambulated Viṣṇu the savior while remembering him. ### [3.23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.8) Along with her father, O King of Birds, that maiden became endowed with dispassion through hearing \[the scriptures\]: / beauty, friends, elephants and the like, priceless jewels, houses, and so forth — ### [3.23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.9) all this she regarded as perishable, made subordinate to me by Hari. / 'By him by whom sons, friends, and the like were given, by him they were taken away' — she felt no sorrow at all. ### [3.23.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.10) 'Just today Viṣṇu, supremely compassionate, has shown mercy to me.' / Along with her father, O King of Birds, that maiden \[directed her mind\] always toward the stainless Vāsudeva within her self. ### [3.23.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.11) Having attained exclusive devotion with great love, the goddess, satisfied with whatever came by chance, / not planning any livelihood for herself, O King of Birds, performed worship with devotion. ### [3.23.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.12) She offered her wealth at the lotus feet of Viṣṇu, the deliverer from the ocean of suffering. / Her organ of speech, O bird, she engaged completely in describing the virtues of Hari at all times. ### [3.23.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.13) Both her hands the goddess engaged in sweeping the house of Viṣṇu and removing dirt from the body \[of his image\]; / her ears she engaged in the arising of the noble tales of Hari, which lead to liberation and resemble nectar. ### [3.23.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.14) Her eyes she engaged in looking at images and the like, which wash away beginningless impurities; / her skin in touching good Vaiṣṇavas, in their company, and in anointing with the fragrant remnants of offerings. ### [3.23.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.15) Her sense of smell she directed to the essence of Hari's lotus feet, which gives liberation from saṃsāra; / her tongue to the remnants of food offered to Hari mixed with sacred tulasī and the like. ### [3.23.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.16) Her feet in walking along the paths to Hari's holy places; her head in bowing to the feet of Hṛṣīkeśa; / desire in her heart and mouth with the wish to serve Hari, just as people dedicated to the Lord of Sublime Renown conduct themselves. ### [3.23.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.17) She directed her mind toward desireless action, and her organ of speech undertook praise. / Thus always offering all her actions to the feet of the Supreme Lord, ### [3.23.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.18) she went to wander at holy places along with her father, solely for the purpose of pleasing Hari, / having first worshipped the brāhmaṇas who are devotees of Viṣṇu in her house with garments, ornaments, and the like. ### [3.23.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.19) Afterward, the goddess made a resolve before Viṣṇu for the sake of the pilgrimage: / 'As long as the pilgrimage lasts, O Mukunda, for that long I shall remain celibate.' ### [3.23.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.20) "As long as I perform the pilgrimage, O Mukunda, grant me the company of Vaiṣṇavas / and the hearing of Hari's stories, but not bodily contact with those who associate with non-Vaiṣṇavas. ### [3.23.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.21) I will not make the pilgrimage with kinsmen, sons, friends, and the like, O Mukunda; / keep far away from those who undertake a pilgrimage for selfish desires, O Mukunda." ### [3.23.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.22) What fruit do the noble say belongs to those who undertake a pilgrimage leaving behind the Śālagrāma? / Whenever a sacred place comes into view, right then, placing the Śālagrāma before oneself, ### [3.23.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.23) if the pilgrimage is undertaken on foot, the noble call the fruit complete, O King of Birds; / having put on footwear and foot protection, they say the pilgrimage is lacking one fourth \[of its fruit\]. ### [3.23.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.24) He who makes the pilgrimage seated on a conveyance or on a horse \[loses\] half; / they say on a mount of oxen and the like \[one loses\] a fourth; eating another's food, they say it is in vain. ### [3.23.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.25) For great souls who know the Vedas and for ascetics, there is no fault in eating another's food. / Having made her vow with supreme devotion, she departed solely for the pilgrimage. ### [3.23.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.26) First bathing and offering the remnant fragrance of Hari, she listened \[to his stories\]; / after also taking a meal with her father, on the next day she walked one krośa. ### [3.23.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.27) There, honoring the brahmins with food and drink, at night the lady had the truth recited. / When people always perform a pilgrimage in this way, the noble call their pilgrimage fruitful. ### [3.23.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.28) Pilgrimage without compassion, O King of Birds, is completely useless, so say the great ones, O lord of birds; / and for those who, day and night, do not hear Hari's divine story along the pilgrimage route, O King of Birds, ### [3.23.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.29) their journey is declared entirely useless; know it to be just like that of conveyances such as horses. / Tell me what fault lies in horses and the like; yet from seeing the Gaṅgā and other \[sacred waters\] sin is destroyed; ### [3.23.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.30) from the sight of Viṣṇu situated in his sacred abode sin is destroyed—tell me what fault a cat has; / from worshiping Viṣṇu situated in his sacred abode sin is destroyed—tell me what fault worshipers have; ### [3.23.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.31) for those performing japa and the like sin is destroyed; from meditation on Viṣṇu instant destruction of sin takes place; / but they say that everything done without mindfulness is entirely in vain. ### [3.23.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.32) Therefore, having heard the sin-destroying story of Hari, one should become devoted to Viṣṇu, O King of Birds; / seeing repeatedly what is marked with Hari's footprints and remembering him again and again, one should become devoted, O King of Birds. ### [3.23.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.33) That maiden, too, went with her father, O lord of birds, to see Śrīnivāsa residing on Śeṣācala; / on the way she meditated on Hari, the Lord of Ramā: ### [3.23.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.34) "When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's broad chest adorned with the Śrīvatsa and jewels? / When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's beautiful belly marked with three folds? ### [3.23.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.35) When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's conch-like neck, the refuge of Maharloka? / When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's full navel, always the refuge of the atmosphere? ### [3.23.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.36) When shall I behold Murāri's face, the perpetual refuge of Janaloka? ### [3.23.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.37) When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's head, the perpetual refuge of Satyaloka? / When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's waist, the perpetual refuge of Bhūrloka? ### [3.23.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.38) When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's two thighs, the perpetual refuge of Talātala? / When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's very tender knees, the refuge of Sutala? ### [3.23.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.39) When shall I behold Śrīnivāsa's two shanks, always the refuge of Rasātala? / When shall I behold the soles of Hari's feet, always the refuge of the Pātāla realm?" ### [3.23.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.40) Thus meditating on the way, the lady beheld Lord Śeṣa on Mount Śeṣācala, / shining with thousands of hoods, with various trees, and with male and female monkeys. ### [3.23.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.41) "By the accumulation of merit acquired in countless births, indeed, this supreme mountain has been seen by me today." / At the sight of it, her eyes clouded with tears, she immediately stood up and bowed with her head. ### [3.23.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.42) Having seen the face, one must bow; one should not bow toward the rear part; / she too performed twelve prostrations, placing the Śālagrāma before it. ### [3.23.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.43) In this way the mountain is to be approached by Vaiṣṇavas, but contrary to non-Vaiṣṇavas; / Śrīnivāsa, situated within Madhva, dwells perpetually before the mountain, worshiped by Ramā, Brahmā, and others. ### [3.23.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.44) "I will behold the most excellent, supreme Śrīnivāsa, and now I wish to ascend the mountain." / Having said this, she took her bath in the sacred water called Kapila together with her father. ### [3.23.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.45) "Hari as Śrīnivāsa resides right here in material form, not otherwise." / First bathing and shaving her head there, and having performed the pilgrimage-śrāddha at the sacred water, ### [3.23.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.46) and having given all gifts of cows, land, gold, and the like, the virtuous maiden then climbed the mountain; / placing the Śālagrāma before her, she once more offered prostrations with great devotion. ### [3.23.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.47) Having climbed up to a hundred steps in this way, she sat down there / and heard the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, and also heard the praise of Mount Veṅkaṭa. ### [3.23.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.48) From the venerable guru Jaigīṣavya, with supreme devotion, she heard the whole truth of Mount Veṅkaṭa. ### [3.23.48.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23.48.p1) Thus ends the twenty-third chapter, entitled "Description of the Sequence of Pilgrimage to the Mountain of Veṅkaṭeśa," in the Brahmakāṇḍa, the third part of the latter section of the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.23.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.23) · Pramāṇa