Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 102

GaP 1 102.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- १०२ याज्ञवल्क्य उवाच । वानप्रस्थाश्रमं वक्ष्ये तच्छृण्वन्तु महर्षयः । पुत्रेषु भार्यां निः क्षिप्य वनं गच्छेत्सहैव वा

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 102 yājñavalkya uvāca / vānaprasthāśramaṃ vakṣye tacchṛṇvantu maharṣayaḥ / putreṣu bhāryāṃ niḥ kṣipya vanaṃ gacchetsahaiva vā

The Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 102. Yājñavalkya said: I shall declare the stage of the forest-dweller; let the great sages hear it. Having left his wife with his sons, he should go to the forest — or else (go) together with her.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 102.2

वानप्रस्थो ब्रह्मचारी साग्निः सोपासनः क्षमी । अफालकृष्टेनाग्नींश्च पितृदेवातिथींस्तथा

vānaprastho brahmacārī sāgniḥ sopāsanaḥ kṣamī / aphālakṛṣṭenāgnīṃśca pitṛdevātithīṃstathā

The forest-dweller (should be) chaste, keeping his (sacrificial) fires, keeping the domestic fire, forbearing; and with grain not raised by the plough (he should satisfy) the fires, and the ancestors, gods and guests,

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GaP 1 102.3

भृत्यांस्तु तर्पयेच्छ्मश्रुजटालोमभृदात्मवान् । दान्तस्त्रिषवणस्नायी निवृत्तश्च प्रतिग्रहात्

bhṛtyāṃstu tarpayecchmaśrujaṭālomabhṛdātmavān / dāntastriṣavaṇasnāyī nivṛttaśca pratigrahāt

and he should satisfy his dependants — wearing beard, matted hair and body hair, self-possessed, restrained, bathing at the three (daily) times, and having given up the acceptance of gifts;

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GaP 1 102.4

स्वाध्यायवान्ध्यानशीलः सर्वभूतहित रतः (तिः) । अह्नो मासस्य मध्ये वा कुर्याद्वार्थपरिग्रहम्

svādhyāyavāndhyānaśīlaḥ sarvabhūtahita rataḥ (tiḥ) / ahno māsasya madhye vā kuryādvārthaparigraham

engaged in recitation of his own Veda, given to meditation, delighting in the welfare of all beings; within a day, or within a month, he may make an acquisition of goods.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 1 102.5

कृतं त्यजेदाश्वयुजे युञ्जेत्कालं व्रतादिना । पक्षे मासे थवाश्नीयाद्दन्तोलूखलिको भवेत्

kṛtaṃ tyajedāśvayuje yuñjetkālaṃ vratādinā / pakṣe māse thavāśnīyāddantolūkhaliko bhavet

In the month of Āśvayuja (Āśvina) he should abandon what he has prepared; he should employ his time with vows and the like; he should eat (once) in a fortnight or in a month; he should become one whose teeth are his mortar (eating only unpounded food).

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 1 102.6

चान्द्रायणी स्वपेद्भूमौ कर्म कुर्यात्फलादिना । ग्रीष्मे पञ्चाग्निमध्यस्थो वर्षासु स्थण्डिलेशयः

cāndrāyaṇī svapedbhūmau karma kuryātphalādinā / grīṣme pañcāgnimadhyastho varṣāsu sthaṇḍileśayaḥ

Performing the cāndrāyaṇa (vow), he should sleep on the ground and perform his rites with fruits and the like; in the hot season standing amid five fires, in the rains lying on the bare ground,

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GaP 1 102.7

आर्द्रवासास्तु हेमन्ते योगाभ्यासाद्दिनं नयेत् । यः कण्टकैर्वितुदति चन्दनैर्यश्च लिम्पति । अक्रुद्धः परितुष्टश्च समस्तस्य च तस्य च

ārdravāsāstu hemante yogābhyāsāddinaṃ nayet / yaḥ kaṇṭakairvitudati candanairyaśca limpati / akruddhaḥ parituṣṭaśca samastasya ca tasya ca

and in the cold season wearing wet garments; he should pass the day in the practice of yoga. He who pricks (him) with thorns and he who anoints (him) with sandal-paste — unangered and wholly content, he is the same toward the one and toward the other.

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