Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 3

GaP 1 3.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- ३ सूत उवाच । इति रुद्राब्जजो विष्णोः शुश्राव ब्रह्मणो मुनिः । व्यासो व्यासादहं वक्ष्येहं ते शौनक नैमिषे

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 3 sūta uvāca / iti rudrābjajo viṣṇoḥ śuśrāva brahmaṇo muniḥ / vyāso vyāsādahaṃ vakṣyehaṃ te śaunaka naimiṣe

The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 3. The Sūta said: Thus Rudra (heard it) from Viṣṇu, the lotus-born (Brahmā) too; the sage Vyāsa (heard it) from Brahmā, and I from Vyāsa; I shall now tell it to you, Śaunaka, here in Naimiṣa.

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GaP 1 3.2

मुनीनां शृण्वतां मध्ये सर्गाद्यं देवपूजनम् । तीर्थं भुवनकोशं च मन्वन्तरमिहोच्यते

munīnāṃ śṛṇvatāṃ madhye sargādyaṃ devapūjanam / tīrthaṃ bhuvanakośaṃ ca manvantaramihocyate

In the midst of the listening sages: creation and the rest, the worship of the gods, the sacred fords, the description of the worlds, and the manvantaras are told here.

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GaP 1 3.3

वर्णाश्रमादिधर्माश्च दानराजादिधर्मकाः । व्यवहारो व्रतं वंशा वैद्यकं सनिदानकम्

varṇāśramādidharmāśca dānarājādidharmakāḥ / vyavahāro vrataṃ vaṃśā vaidyakaṃ sanidānakam

And the duties of the classes and stages of life and the rest, the duties of giving and of kings and so on, legal procedure, vows, genealogies, and medicine together with its etiology;

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GaP 1 3.4

अङ्गानि प्रलयो धर्मकामार्थज्ञानमुत्तमम् । सप्रपञ्चं निष्प्रपञ्चं कृतं विष्णोर्निगद्यते

aṅgāni pralayo dharmakāmārthajñānamuttamam / saprapañcaṃ niṣprapañcaṃ kṛtaṃ viṣṇornigadyate

the ancillary subjects, the dissolution, dharma, pleasure, wealth, and supreme knowledge—the work of Viṣṇu is declared, with elaboration and without elaboration.

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GaP 1 3.5

पुराणे गारुडे सर्वं गरुडो भगवानथ । वासुदेवप्रसादेन सामर्थ्यातिशयैर्युतः

purāṇe gāruḍe sarvaṃ garuḍo bhagavānatha / vāsudevaprasādena sāmarthyātiśayairyutaḥ

All this (is) in the Gāruḍa Purāṇa. Then Garuḍa, the lord, endowed by the grace of Vāsudeva with surpassing powers,

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GaP 1 3.6

भुत्वा हरेर्वाहनं च सर्गादीनां च कारणम् । देवान्विजित्य गरुडो ह्यमृताहरणं तथा

bhutvā harervāhanaṃ ca sargādīnāṃ ca kāraṇam / devānvijitya garuḍo hyamṛtāharaṇaṃ tathā

having become the vehicle of Hari and the cause of creation and the rest—Garuḍa, having conquered the gods, likewise carried off the nectar;

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GaP 1 3.7

चक्रे क्षुधा हृतं यस्य ब्रह्माण्डमुदरे हरेः । यं दृष्ट्वा स्मृतमात्रेण नागान्दीनां च संक्षयः

cakre kṣudhā hṛtaṃ yasya brahmāṇḍamudare hareḥ / yaṃ dṛṣṭvā smṛtamātreṇa nāgāndīnāṃ ca saṃkṣayaḥ

he made (it so). Whose brahmāṇḍa, seized by hunger, (is) in the belly of Hari; on seeing whom, and by merely remembering (him), there is the destruction of serpents and the like—

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GaP 1 3.8

कश्यपो गारुडाद्वृक्षं दग्धं चाजीवयद्यतः । गरुडः स हरिस्तेन प्रोक्तं श्रीकश्यपाय च

kaśyapo gāruḍādvṛkṣaṃ dagdhaṃ cājīvayadyataḥ / garuḍaḥ sa haristena proktaṃ śrīkaśyapāya ca

since Kaśyapa, by means of the Gāruḍa (teaching), revived even a burnt tree—that Garuḍa is Hari himself; and by him it was declared to the glorious Kaśyapa.

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GaP 1 3.9

तच्छ्रीमद्रारुडं पुण्यं सर्वदं पठतस्तव । वक्ष्ये व्यासं नमस्कृत्य शृणु शौनक तद्यथा

tacchrīmadrāruḍaṃ puṇyaṃ sarvadaṃ paṭhatastava / vakṣye vyāsaṃ namaskṛtya śṛṇu śaunaka tadyathā

That glorious Gāruḍa (Purāṇa), meritorious and granting everything to you who recite it, I shall relate, after bowing to Vyāsa. Listen, Śaunaka, to how it is.

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