[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) › 3.29 # Garudapurana 3.29 English (machine translation) 3.29 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [3.29.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.70) — 3 parts ### [3.29.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.1) The glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa: Chapter 29. / I shall declare those following Pravaha; listen, O best of the lords of birds! / Dharma, who was a son of Brahmā, arose from his skin at the beginning of creation. ### [3.29.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.2) Because of sustaining good people in a gentle form, he is named Dharma; / he indeed became the son of Sūrya and acquired the name Yama. / Because he punishes sinners, he is called Yama by the wise. ### [3.29.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.3) The holy Kṛṣṇa said: / After Prahlāda comes Gaṅgā, the wife of Varuṇa. / She is to be known as inferior to Prahlāda, but superior to Varuṇa in greatness. ### [3.29.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.4) She is to be known as inferior by intrinsic nature; no doubt should be made here. / Yama always knows Viṣṇu, who grants the intrinsic nature of knowledge. ### [3.29.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.5) Therefore she is to be known as the Gaṅgā, who constantly purifies the worlds. / Out of devotion she is proclaimed as the Viṣṇupadī; of this there is no doubt. ### [3.29.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.6) She who, in former times, when the sacrificial embodiment Viṣṇu, Hari himself, bestrode \[the worlds\], O King of Birds, / pierced through the upper part of the cosmic egg from the tip of his left foot's nail, ### [3.29.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.7) entered its interior with great speed, flowing down, purified by the filament of the foot of the slayer of the world's sins, / destroying all impurity by sight, by touch, or by a single immersion, granting devotion to Viṣṇu's feet, / fair as an excellent ray of the moon, fish-eyed, worthy of great worship—whoever remembers her who arose from Hari's foot gradually attains liberation. ### [3.29.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.8) Even Indra, having drunk the drop of the wind-mass struck by the hand of the wind, and having an intolerant mind on his head, / knowing always that the Bhāgīrathī is marked with Hari's foot, as the foremost of the great supreme devotees of the Lord, / with a heart melting with devotion, holding her upon his head with the highest reverence, that supreme inauspicious one became Śiva \[the auspicious one\]. ### [3.29.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.9) And there were four forms of the Bhāgīrathī, O lord of birds: / she was the wife who anointed Mahābhiṣaj, the lord of men; ### [3.29.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.10) by her second form, Gaṅgā was the wife of Śantanu; / as Suṣeṇā, she is recorded as the monkey wife of Suṣeṇa; ### [3.29.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.11) and as the frog's wife, that same Gaṅgā is remembered as Maṇḍūkinī. / Thus the four forms of the Gaṅgā are proclaimed. ### [3.29.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.12) And from the sun and the Gaṅgā, Parjanya is said to have arisen; / he rains down supreme dispassion, hence he is named Parjanya. ### [3.29.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.13) For the best of arrows, having abandoned the five from the Pañcajanya and eaten the arrogance sixfold in succession, / one should worship the arrow situated in one's own heart, and never devotion \[which turns to\] poison. ### [3.29.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.14) The subtle body should not always be nourished; the subtle body should always be nourished in this way: / attachment to the womb should never be formed; when freed from the womb, unattached, one attains liberation. ### [3.29.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.15) Thus he constantly produces dispassion; therefore, Parjanya is the ender, O best of birds. / To that extent, that great soul is named Śarabha, and he is internal, but he is indeed Parjanya. ### [3.29.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.16) He on whose body hair constantly shines, O King of Birds, is called Śarabha, and thereafter / the wife of Yama is Śyāmalā, O King of Birds, because she is always the wife of Kali and dear to him. ### [3.29.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.17) She who properly makes up her mind after reflection, hence she was named Śyāmalā. / I shall speak of impurity, which is opposed to devotion to Hari, and its presence in a vessel of good iron. ### [3.29.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.18) That should always be abandoned by Vaiṣṇavas, as well as burnt cloth, that produced at a junction, and childbirth; / treating another's suffering \[for selfish gain\], O King of Birds, should always be abandoned by Hari's devotees. ### [3.29.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.19) And those who are devoid of devotion to Hari are not noble; association with them should never be made: / an abandoned one through contact with the old, an old palm leaf, an old garment, ### [3.29.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.20) a worn-out patched rag, an antelope skin, a girdle, a sacred thread—these are dear to Kali; / a house with a woolen canopy, and that filled with sacrificial sticks and kuśa grass and censured, ### [3.29.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.21) all this is dear to Kali's wife, and never dear to the wielder of the Śārṅga bow; / barley-porridge well cooked in bell-metal, chaff, oil-cake, bottle-gourd, bael, onion, ### [3.29.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.22) stale buttermilk, food that is tasteless, lukewarm—all these are dear to Kali's wife; / foul-mouthed speech, reviling of noble people, deliberately dishonoring good people and one's own children, ### [3.29.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.23) constant oppression in the circle of the husband's kin, theft of grain, cloth, and other goods kept in the house, / keeping disheveled hair, accompanied by clapping hands—these are dear to the deity Kali. ### [3.29.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.24) All such things, dear to Kali's wife, she makes completely pure. / Therefore, she attained her name Śyāmalā, and she became Devakī. ### [3.29.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.25) She indeed became Yudhiṣṭhira's respected wife, and she was Devakī there. / Rohiṇī, the wife of the Moon, is constantly superior even to Aśvinī and the others. ### [3.29.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.26) Taking hold of the ray, she ascends to the suitable station; therefore she is renowned as Rohiṇī. / The wife of the Sun is named Saṃjñā, O King of Birds; she is to be known as an embodiment of Nārāyaṇa. ### [3.29.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.27) Because she fully knows, she attained the name Saṃjñā in the world as the wife of Sūrya, O King of Birds; / and the deity who identifies with the cosmic egg attained the name Virāj thereby. ### [3.29.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.28) The group of six beginning with Gaṅgā are always equal to one another, neither superior nor inferior. / Other than the purifier of the principal fire, Gaṅgā is always auspicious; there is no doubt about this. ### [3.29.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.29) From knowledge of these, one continually attains merit, and Hari Keśava is always pleased. / Lower than the group beginning with Gaṅgā is the wife of Agni, named Svāhā, rich in virtues, not deficient. ### [3.29.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.30) Identifying with the utterance 'svāhā' in the form of mantras, she always attained the name Svāhā, O best of birds. / From the wife of Agni was born the wise Budha, the son of the Moon, who identifies with Brahmā. ### [3.29.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.31) By his intellect he understood everything born of the realm and sustained it; therefore he attained the name Budha. / And thus arose the great-souled Abhimanyu from Arjuna in the womb of Subhadrā. ### [3.29.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.32) He was endowed with portions of Kṛṣṇa, the Moon, Yama, the two Aśvins, and Hara. / But Budha, the son of the Moon, is lower than Svāhā, devoted to the lotus feet of Lord Viṣṇu. ### [3.29.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.33) The wife of the Aśvins, consisting of names, is proclaimed as Uṣā; / she is to be known as lower than Budha, tenfold lower than Svāhā. ### [3.29.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.34) The wife of Nakula, the daughter of the king of Magadha, and the wife of Sahadeva, the daughter of Śalya— / both of these are wives of the Aśvins; and Uṣā worships the primeval Viṣṇu endowed with six virtues. / Therefore she is also named Uṣā, O King of Birds. Hear now of those who follow, O great-souled one. ### [3.29.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.35) Thence is Śakti, the soul of the earth; he always moves slowly (śanaiḥ); / therefore his name is Śanaiścara, and he is tenfold lower than Uṣā. ### [3.29.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.36) Puṣkara is to be known as the embodiment of action, then Śani, then Yama is considered; / the person who presides over policy, slightly lower, is tenfold inferior. ### [3.29.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.37) Because he constantly brings pleasure to Hari and sports at Puṣkara, / he is therefore proclaimed in the world as Puṣkala. ### [3.29.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.38) I shall describe the dharmas that bring pleasure to Hari; listen, O King of Birds: / Having risen at daybreak, one should remember Hari Nārāyaṇa. ### [3.29.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.39) One should perform salutation to tulasī and meditate on Śrī Viṣṇu, O bird, / and at the time of voiding feces and urine, on Keśava in the form of the apāna wind. ### [3.29.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.40) \[He remembers\] Hari as Trivikrama at the time of purification, Hari as making one drink the Gaṅgā, / and at the time of cleaning the teeth, Hari as the inner ruler of the moon. ### [3.29.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.41) At the time of washing the face, one should remember Mādhava, O bird; / and at the scratching of cows, one should remember Hari as Govardhana. ### [3.29.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.42) Always at the time of milking cows, one should remember the beloved of the cowherdesses. / When the deeds of lives earned through endless merit are fully ripened, O best of the kings of birds, ### [3.29.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.43) the touching of cows indeed always happens for men; hence there is no doubt here. / In whichever house there is not an ever-excellent cow, and in whose courtyard there is no holy tulasī, ### [3.29.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.44) in whichever house there is no great festival for the gods, in whichever house there is no hearing about Viṣṇu, / from association with that \[house\], suffering and the like comes; one should never touch him. ### [3.29.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.45) For one devoid of touching cows, not knowing the milking of cows, / and devoid of maintaining cows, they declare his life to be useless. ### [3.29.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.46) For one who does not give a mouthful of grass to a cow and does not nourish a cow, / there is no good destination at all; he is considered like a village outcaste. ### [3.29.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.47) When a calf drinks milk, one should remember child Kṛṣṇa; / and when churning curds, one should remember Hari, the support of the churning stick. ### [3.29.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.48) At the time of taking an earth-bath, one should remember Hari as the Boar; / and when applying the sect-marks, \[one should remember\] the twelve deities beginning with Keśava. ### [3.29.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.49) And when putting on the seals, one should remember \[Hari\] bearing the conch, discus, and mace, / the lotus, the mark of Nārāyaṇa, and \[the forms\] beginning with Kruddholka. ### [3.29.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.50) And \[one should engage in\] remembrance of Śrī Rāma at twilight, O best of birds; / and at the time of a śrāddha, one should remember Acyuta, Ananta, and Govinda. ### [3.29.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.51) During the five oblations beginning with prāṇa, one should remember \[the deities\] beginning with Aniruddha; / and at the time of offering food and the like, one should remember Vāsudeva. ### [3.29.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.52) At the time of sipping water, \[one should remember\] Hari residing within Vāyu; / and at the time of putting on clothes, one should remember Hari as Upendra. ### [3.29.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.53) When putting on the sacred thread, one should remember Nārāyaṇa named Vāmana; / and likewise at the time of waving the lamp for Viṣṇu, one should properly remember Viṣṇu named Rāma Jāmadagnya. ### [3.29.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.54) At the time of sipping water, during the vaiśvadeva rite, during other oblations, and when applying holy ash, / one should remember with devotion and supreme reverence Nārāyaṇa named Rāma Jāmadagnya. ### [3.29.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.55) At the time of taking the holy water three times, \[one should remember\] Kṛṣṇa, Rāma, and the divine Vyāsa in sequence; / and when taking water from the conch, one should always remember the form of Mukunda. ### [3.29.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.56) With every morsel of pure food, remembrance should be made of the one named Govinda; / at the time of taking each single piece of food, O King of Birds, one should properly remember Acyuta. ### [3.29.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.57) At the time of eating vegetables and the like, one should always remember Dhanvantari; / and likewise when enjoying another's food, one should properly remember Viṣṇu as Pāṇḍuraṅga. ### [3.29.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.58) When eating fresh butter, one should properly remember Kṛṣṇa known as Tāṇḍava; / when eating curd-rice, one should always remember the supreme, primordial Gopālakṛṣṇa. ### [3.29.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.59) And likewise when consuming milk-rice, one should properly remember Hari as Śrīnivāsa; / when eating fried food cooked in fine oil and clarified butter, one should remember Veṅkaṭeśa. ### [3.29.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.60) Grapes, fine rose-apples, bananas, mangoes, oranges, and fine pomegranates— / indeed, when enjoying splendid plantains, coconuts, and emblic myrobalans, one should remember child Kṛṣṇa. ### [3.29.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.61) At the time of drinking sweet beverages, one should properly remember Viṣṇu named Nārasiṃha; / and at the time of drinking the nectar of the Gaṅgā, one should remember Viṣṇu alone as the father of the Gaṅgā. ### [3.29.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.62) At the time of departure on a journey, one should remember Nārāyaṇa mounted on Garuḍa, qualityless, having the universe as his form; / and at the time of kissing sons and others, one should remember Kṛṣṇa alone with the fine flute in hand. ### [3.29.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.63) During pleasant union with one's own wife, \[one should\] always \[remember\] Hari delighting in the pair of breasts of the gopīs; / and at the time of betel, one should always remember Hari, Vāsudeva named Pradyumna. ### [3.29.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.64) At bedtime, one should always remember Hari, the form of Viṣṇu named Saṃkarṣaṇa; / at the time of sleep, one should remember the one named Padmanābha; and at the time of holy narration, Hari in the form of Vyāsa. ### [3.29.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.65) At the time of sweet singing, one should remember the song of the flute and always say, 'Hari, Hari'; / and at the time of cutting the sacred tulasī, one should remember, 'Śrī Rāma, Rāma.' ### [3.29.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.66) At the time of plucking flowers and the like, one should properly remember Hari named Kapila; / and during circumambulation, O King of Birds, one should always remember Hari residing within Garuḍa. ### [3.29.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.67) At the time of bowing to Viṣṇu, the God of gods, one should remember Viṣṇu seated upon Śeṣa; / at the time of proper conduct, one should always remember Nārasiṃha and Nārāyaṇa. ### [3.29.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.68) When the completion of rituals is performed, one should properly remember Hari as Vāsudeva. / Actions performed in this way bring delight to Hari. ### [3.29.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.69) Performing these \[remembrances\] properly, Puṣkara became dear to Hari. ### [3.29.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.70) For this very reason, O Lord of Birds, if one endowed with faith listens to the ritual that has been described and this matchless narrative of Puṣkara, / he will always be devoted to the dharma that brings delight to Hari. ### [3.29.70.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.70.p1) Thus ends the twenty-ninth chapter, entitled 'The Secret of the Realities,' in the dialogue between Kṛṣṇa and Garuḍa, in the Brahmakāṇḍa, the third part of the Uttarakhaṇḍa in the great Garuḍa Purāṇa. ### [3.29.70.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.70.p2) The Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa is concluded. ### [3.29.70.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29.70.p3) Thus ends the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa. ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.3.29.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda~en-mt.3.29) · Pramāṇa