Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 233

GaP 1 233.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २३३ सूत उवाच । स्तोत्रं तत्सं प्रवक्ष्यामि मार्कण्डेयन भाषितम् । दामोदरं प्रपन्नो ऽस्मि किन्नो मृत्युः करिष्यति

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 233 sūta uvāca / stotraṃ tatsaṃ pravakṣyāmi mārkaṇḍeyana bhāṣitam / dāmodaraṃ prapanno 'smi kinno mṛtyuḥ kariṣyati

Sūta said: I shall now proclaim that hymn spoken by Mārkaṇḍeya: I have taken refuge in Dāmodara — what will death do to us?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.2

शङ्खचक्रधरं देवं व्यक्तरूपिणमव्ययम् । अधो ऽक्षजं प्रपन्नोस्मि किन्नो मृत्युः करिष्यति

śaṅkhacakradharaṃ devaṃ vyaktarūpiṇamavyayam / adho 'kṣajaṃ prapannosmi kinno mṛtyuḥ kariṣyati

I have taken refuge in the god who bears conch and discus, who has manifest form, imperishable, Adhokṣaja — what will death do to us?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.3

वराहं वामनं विष्णुं नारसिंहं जनार्दनम् । माधवं च प्रपन्नो ऽस्मि किन्नो मृत्युः करिष्यति

varāhaṃ vāmanaṃ viṣṇuṃ nārasiṃhaṃ janārdanam / mādhavaṃ ca prapanno 'smi kinno mṛtyuḥ kariṣyati

I have taken refuge in Varāha, Vāmana, Viṣṇu, the Man-lion, Janārdana, and Mādhava — what will death do to us?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.4

पुरुषं पुष्करक्षेत्रबीजं पुण्यं जगत्पतिम् । लोकनाथं प्रपन्नो ऽस्मि किन्नो मृत्युः करिष्यति

puruṣaṃ puṣkarakṣetrabījaṃ puṇyaṃ jagatpatim / lokanāthaṃ prapanno 'smi kinno mṛtyuḥ kariṣyati

I have taken refuge in the Puruṣa, the seed of the Puṣkara field, the holy lord of the world, the lord of the worlds — what will death do to us?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.5

सहस्रशिरसं देवं व्यक्ताव्यक्तं सनातनम् । महायोगं प्रपन्नो ऽस्मि किन्नो मृत्युः करिष्यति

sahasraśirasaṃ devaṃ vyaktāvyaktaṃ sanātanam / mahāyogaṃ prapanno 'smi kinno mṛtyuḥ kariṣyati

I have taken refuge in the thousand-headed god, manifest and unmanifest, eternal, the great yoga — what will death do to us?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.6

भूतात्मानं महात्मानं यज्ञयोनिमयोनिजम् । विश्वरूपं प्रपन्नो ऽस्मि किन्नो मूत्युः करिष्यति

bhūtātmānaṃ mahātmānaṃ yajñayonimayonijam / viśvarūpaṃ prapanno 'smi kinno mūtyuḥ kariṣyati

I have taken refuge in the Self of beings, the great Self, the womb of sacrifice, the unborn, the one whose form is the universe — what will death do to us?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.7

इत्युदीरितमाकर्ण्य स्तोत्रं तस्य महात्मनुः । अपयातस्ततो मृत्युर्विष्णुदूतैः प्रपीडितः

ityudīritamākarṇya stotraṃ tasya mahātmanuḥ / apayātastato mṛtyurviṣṇudūtaiḥ prapīḍitaḥ

Hearing the hymn thus uttered by that great-souled one, Death fled away from there, sorely pressed by Viṣṇu's messengers.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.8

इति तेन जितो मृत्युर्मार्कण्डेयेन धीमता । प्रसन्ने पुण्डरीकाक्षे नृसिंहे नास्तिदुर्लभम्

iti tena jito mṛtyurmārkaṇḍeyena dhīmatā / prasanne puṇḍarīkākṣe nṛsiṃhe nāstidurlabham

Thus was Death conquered by that wise Mārkaṇḍeya; when the lotus-eyed Nṛsiṃha is pleased, nothing is hard to obtain.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.9

मृत्य्वष्टकमिदं पुण्यं मृत्युप्रशमनं शुभम् । मार्कण्डेयहितार्थाय स्वयं विष्णुरुवाच ह

mṛtyvaṣṭakamidaṃ puṇyaṃ mṛtyupraśamanaṃ śubham / mārkaṇḍeyahitārthāya svayaṃ viṣṇuruvāca ha

This holy, auspicious "Eight (verses) on Death," which allays death, Viṣṇu himself spoke for the benefit of Mārkaṇḍeya.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.10

इदं यः पठते भक्त्या त्रिकालं नियतं शुचिः । नाकाले तस्य मृत्युः स्यान्नरस्याच्युतचेतसः

idaṃ yaḥ paṭhate bhaktyā trikālaṃ niyataṃ śuciḥ / nākāle tasya mṛtyuḥ syānnarasyācyutacetasaḥ

Whoever recites this with devotion, pure and disciplined, at the three junctures of the day — for that man whose mind is on Acyuta there will be no death out of season.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 1 233.11

हृत्पद्ममध्ये पुरुषं पुराणं नारायणं शाश्वतमप्रमेयम् । विचिन्त्य सूर्यादतिराजमानं मृत्युं स योगि जितवांस्तथैव

hṛtpadmamadhye puruṣaṃ purāṇaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ śāśvatamaprameyam / vicintya sūryādatirājamānaṃ mṛtyuṃ sa yogi jitavāṃstathaiva

Having meditated in the middle of the heart-lotus on the ancient Person, Nārāyaṇa, eternal, immeasurable, shining more brilliantly than the sun — that yogin has likewise conquered death.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition