Garuda Purana — Purva Khanda — Chapter 9

GaP 1 9.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- ९ हरिरुवाच । समये (या) दीक्षितः शिष्यो बद्धनेत्रस्तु वाससा । अष्टाहुतिशतं तस्य मूलमन्त्रेण होमयेत्

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 9 hariruvāca / samaye (yā) dīkṣitaḥ śiṣyo baddhanetrastu vāsasā / aṣṭāhutiśataṃ tasya mūlamantreṇa homayet

The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 9. Hari said: For a pupil who has been initiated by the samaya (rite), with his eyes bound with a cloth, one should offer eight hundred oblations with the root-mantra.

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GaP 1 9.2

द्विगुणं पुत्रके होमं त्रिगुणं साधके मतम् । निर्वाणदेशिके रुद्र ! चतुर्गुणमुदाहृतम्

dviguṇaṃ putrake homaṃ triguṇaṃ sādhake matam / nirvāṇadeśike rudra ! caturguṇamudāhṛtam

For a putraka the oblation is held to be double, for a sādhaka triple; for one consecrated as a nirvāṇa-ācārya, O Rudra, it is declared fourfold.

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GaP 1 9.3

गुरुविष्णुद्विजस्त्रीणां हन्ता बध्यस्त्व(श्च)दीक्षितैः । अथ दीक्षां प्रवक्ष्यामि धर्माधर्मक्षयङ्करीम्

guruviṣṇudvijastrīṇāṃ hantā badhyastva(śca)dīkṣitaiḥ / atha dīkṣāṃ pravakṣyāmi dharmādharmakṣayaṅkarīm

But one who kills a teacher, a Vaiṣṇava, a brahmin, or a woman is to be shunned by the initiated. Now I shall declare the initiation that destroys (both) merit and demerit.

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GaP 1 9.4

उपवेश्य बहिः शिष्यान्धारणं तेषु कारयेत् । वायव्या कलया रुद्र शोष्यमाणान्विचिन्तयेत्

upaveśya bahiḥ śiṣyāndhāraṇaṃ teṣu kārayet / vāyavyā kalayā rudra śoṣyamāṇānvicintayet

Having seated the pupils outside, he should have them perform the concentration (dhāraṇā); with the wind-portion, O Rudra, he should think of them as being dried up,

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GaP 1 9.5

आग्रेय्या दह्यमानांश्च प्लावितानम्भसा पुनः । तेजस्तेजासि तं जीवमेकीकृत्य समाक्षिपेत्

āgreyyā dahyamānāṃśca plāvitānambhasā punaḥ / tejastejāsi taṃ jīvamekīkṛtya samākṣipet

and with the fire-portion as being burnt, and again as flooded with water; (saying) "You are radiance in radiance," he should make that living self one (with it) and draw it in.

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GaP 1 9.6

प्राणवं चिन्तयेव्द्योम्नि शरीरे ऽन्यत्तु कारणम् । एकैकं यो जयेत्तत्र क्षेत्रज्ञं देहकारणात्

prāṇavaṃ cintayevdyomni śarīre 'nyattu kāraṇam / ekaikaṃ yo jayettatra kṣetrajñaṃ dehakāraṇāt

He should meditate on the praṇava in the sky, but on the other cause in the body; whoever conquers there one by one, the knower of the field, from the body's cause—

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GaP 1 9.7

उत्पाद्य योजयेत्पश्चादेकैकं वृषभध्वज । मण्डलादिष्वशक्तस्तु कल्पयित्वार्ऽचयेद्धरिम्

utpādya yojayetpaścādekaikaṃ vṛṣabhadhvaja / maṇḍalādiṣvaśaktastu kalpayitvār'cayeddharim

having produced (it), he should afterwards join them one by one, O bull-bannered one; but one unable (to make) maṇḍalas and the rest should worship Hari after imagining (them).

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GaP 1 9.8

चतुर्द्वारं भवेत्तच्च ब्रह्मतीर्थादनुक्रमात् । हस्तं पद्मं समाख्यातं पत्राण्यङ्गुलयः स्मृताः

caturdvāraṃ bhavettacca brahmatīrthādanukramāt / hastaṃ padmaṃ samākhyātaṃ patrāṇyaṅgulayaḥ smṛtāḥ

And that should have four doors, in order beginning from the brahma-tīrtha; the hand is declared to be the lotus, and the fingers are held to be the petals,

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GaP 1 9.9

कर्णिका तलहस्तन्तु नखान्यस्य तु केसराः । तत्रार्चयेद्धरिं ध्यात्वा सूर्यन्द्वग्नयन्तरेव च

karṇikā talahastantu nakhānyasya tu kesarāḥ / tatrārcayeddhariṃ dhyātvā sūryandvagnayantareva ca

the palm of the hand is the pericarp, and its nails are the filaments; there he should worship Hari, having meditated on the sun and on what lies between the (two) fires.

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GaP 1 9.10

तं हस्तं पातयेन्मूर्ध्नि शिष्यस्य तु समाहितः । हस्ते विष्णुः स्थितो यस्माद्विष्णुहस्तस्ततस्त्वयम् । नश्यन्ति स्पर्शनात्तस्य पातकान्यखिलानि च

taṃ hastaṃ pātayenmūrdhni śiṣyasya tu samāhitaḥ / haste viṣṇuḥ sthito yasmādviṣṇuhastastatastvayam / naśyanti sparśanāttasya pātakānyakhilāni ca

That hand, collected in mind, he should lay upon the pupil's head; since Viṣṇu abides in the hand, this is therefore the "Viṣṇu-hand." By its touch all his sins perish.

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GaP 1 9.11

गुरुः शिष्यं समभ्यर्च्य नेत्रे बद्धे तु वाससा । देवस्य प्रमुखं कृत्वा पुष्पमेवार्पयेत्ततः । पुष्पं निपतितं यत्र मूर्ध्नो देवस्य शार्ङ्गिणः

guruḥ śiṣyaṃ samabhyarcya netre baddhe tu vāsasā / devasya pramukhaṃ kṛtvā puṣpamevārpayettataḥ / puṣpaṃ nipatitaṃ yatra mūrdhno devasya śārṅgiṇaḥ

The teacher, having duly honoured the pupil, his eyes bound with a cloth, having turned him to face the god, should then have him offer a flower; wherever the flower falls (upon a part) of the head of the god who bears the bow—

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GaP 1 9.12

तन्नाम कारयेत्तस्य स्त्रीणां नामाङ्कितं स्वयम् । शूद्राणां दाससंयुक्तं कारयेत्तु विचक्षणः

tannāma kārayettasya strīṇāṃ nāmāṅkitaṃ svayam / śūdrāṇāṃ dāsasaṃyuktaṃ kārayettu vicakṣaṇaḥ

he should give him that name; for women he himself (should give) a name marked (with the goddess's name); for śūdras the wise one should make (the name) joined with "dāsa."

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