Garuda Purana — Uttara Khanda (Pretakalpa) — Chapter 23

GaP 2 23.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २३ गरुड उवाच । किङ्किं कुर्वन्ति वै प्रेताः पिशाचत्वेव्यवस्थिताः । वदन्ति वा कदाचित्किं तद्वदस्व सुरेश्वर

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 23 garuḍa uvāca / kiṅkiṃ kurvanti vai pretāḥ piśācatvevyavasthitāḥ / vadanti vā kadācitkiṃ tadvadasva sureśvara

The Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, chapter 23. Garuḍa said: What, what do the ghosts do, established as they are in the state of piśācas? And do they ever speak? Tell me that, O lord of the gods.

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GaP 2 23.2

श्रीभगवानुवाच । तेषां स्वरूपं वक्ष्यामि चिह्नं स्वप्नं यथातथम् । क्षुत्पिपासार्दितास्ते वै प्रविशेयुः स्ववेश्मनि

śrībhagavānuvāca / teṣāṃ svarūpaṃ vakṣyāmi cihnaṃ svapnaṃ yathātatham / kṣutpipāsārditāste vai praviśeyuḥ svaveśmani

The Blessed Lord said: I shall tell you their form, their sign, and their (appearance in) dream, just as it is. Afflicted by hunger and thirst, they enter their own houses.

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GaP 2 23.3

प्रतिष्ठा वायुदेहेषु शयानांस्तु स्ववंशजान् । तत्र यच्छन्ति लिङ्गानि दर्शयन्ति खगेश्वर

pratiṣṭhā vāyudeheṣu śayānāṃstu svavaṃśajān / tatra yacchanti liṅgāni darśayanti khageśvara

They take their stand in bodies of wind, and there they give (signs to) those of their own lineage who are asleep, and show them marks, O lord of birds.

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GaP 2 23.4

स्वपुत्रस्वकलत्राणि स्वबन्धुन्तत्र गच्छति । हयो गजो वृषो मर्त्योदृश्यते विकृताननः

svaputrasvakalatrāṇi svabandhuntatra gacchati / hayo gajo vṛṣo martyodṛśyate vikṛtānanaḥ

He goes there to his own sons, his own wives, his own kinsmen; he is seen as a horse, an elephant, a bull, or a man with a distorted face.

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GaP 2 23.5

शयानं विपरीतं तु आत्मानं च विपर्ययम् । उत्थितः पश्यति यस्तु तद्विन्द्यात्प्रेतनिर्मितम्

śayānaṃ viparītaṃ tu ātmānaṃ ca viparyayam / utthitaḥ paśyati yastu tadvindyātpretanirmitam

But when one, on rising, sees himself lying down reversed and inverted, one should know that to be produced by a ghost.

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GaP 2 23.6

स्वप्ने नरौ हि निगडैर्बध्यते बहुधा यदि । अन्नं च याचते स्वप्ने कुवेषः पूर्वजो मृतः

svapne narau hi nigaḍairbadhyate bahudhā yadi / annaṃ ca yācate svapne kuveṣaḥ pūrvajo mṛtaḥ

If in a dream a man is bound many times over with fetters, and if in a dream a dead ancestor, ill-clothed, begs for food (—these too are such signs).

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GaP 2 23.7

स्वप्ने यो भुज्यमानस्य गृहीत्वान्नं पलायते । आत्मनस्तु परो वापि तृषार्तस्तु जलं पिबेत्

svapne yo bhujyamānasya gṛhītvānnaṃ palāyate / ātmanastu paro vāpi tṛṣārtastu jalaṃ pibet

(And if) in a dream someone snatches the food of one who is eating and runs away — whether it be oneself or another — or one tormented by thirst drinks water (—these are signs).

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GaP 2 23.8

वृषभारोहणं स्वप्ने वृषभैः सह गच्छति । उत्पत्य गगनं याति तीर्थे याति क्षुधातुरः

vṛṣabhārohaṇaṃ svapne vṛṣabhaiḥ saha gacchati / utpatya gaganaṃ yāti tīrthe yāti kṣudhāturaḥ

In a dream, mounting a bull, going along together with bulls, flying up and going to the sky, going to a sacred ford, being afflicted with hunger (—these are signs).

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GaP 2 23.9

स्ववाचा वदते यस्तु गोवृषद्विजावाजिषु । लिङ्गे गजे तथा देवे भूते प्रेते निशाचरे

svavācā vadate yastu govṛṣadvijāvājiṣu / liṅge gaje tathā deve bhūte prete niśācare

But (if) one speaks with one's own (human) voice in a cow, a bull, a twice-born, a horse, a liṅga, an elephant, or likewise in a god, a bhūta, a preta, a night-roamer —

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GaP 2 23.10

स्वप्नमध्ये तु पक्षीन्द्र प्रेतलिङ्गान्यनेकधा । स्वकलत्रं स्वबन्धुं वा स्वसुतं स्वपतिं विभुम् । विद्यमानं मृतं पश्येत्प्रेतदोषेण निश्चितम्

svapnamadhye tu pakṣīndra pretaliṅgānyanekadhā / svakalatraṃ svabandhuṃ vā svasutaṃ svapatiṃ vibhum / vidyamānaṃ mṛtaṃ paśyetpretadoṣeṇa niścitam

— (these), O lord of birds, are the manifold signs of pretas (seen) within a dream. (If) one sees one's own wife, or one's kinsman, or one's son, or one's husband, or one's master, though living, as dead, it is certainly due to the fault of a preta.

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GaP 2 23.11

याचते यः परं स्वप्ने क्षुत्तृड्भ्यां च परिप्लुतः । तीर्थे गत्वा दहेत्पिण्डान्प्रेतदौषैर्न संशयः

yācate yaḥ paraṃ svapne kṣuttṛḍbhyāṃ ca pariplutaḥ / tīrthe gatvā dahetpiṇḍānpretadauṣairna saṃśayaḥ

He who in a dream begs from another, overwhelmed by hunger and thirst — (for him) one should go to a sacred ford and burn (i.e. offer) rice-balls; there is no doubt that it is due to the faults of pretas.

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GaP 2 23.12

निर्गच्छेद्वा गृहाद्वापि स्वप्ने पुत्रस्तथा पशुः । पिता भ्राता कलत्रं च प्रेतदोषैस्तु पश्यति

nirgacchedvā gṛhādvāpi svapne putrastathā paśuḥ / pitā bhrātā kalatraṃ ca pretadoṣaistu paśyati

Or (if) in a dream a son or a domestic animal, a father, a brother, or a wife goes out from the house — (one) sees (this) through the faults of pretas.

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GaP 2 23.13

चिह्नान्येतानि पक्षीन्द्र प्रायश्चित्तं निवेदयेत् । कृत्वा स्नानं गृहे तीर्थे श्रीवृक्षे तर्पणं जलैः

cihnānyetāni pakṣīndra prāyaścittaṃ nivedayet / kṛtvā snānaṃ gṛhe tīrthe śrīvṛkṣe tarpaṇaṃ jalaiḥ

These are the signs, O lord of birds; one should announce an expiation: having bathed at home or at a sacred ford, (one should make) a water-offering at the holy tree,

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GaP 2 23.14

कृष्णधान्यानि पूजां च प्रदद्याद्वेदपारगे । होमं कुर्याद्यथाशक्ति सम्पूर्णं वाचयेत्सुधीः

kṛṣṇadhānyāni pūjāṃ ca pradadyādvedapārage / homaṃ kuryādyathāśakti sampūrṇaṃ vācayetsudhīḥ

and one should give black grains and worship to one who has mastered the Veda; one should perform an oblation according to one's ability, and the wise man should have (the recitation) made complete.

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GaP 2 23.15

एतद्धि श्रद्धया यस्तु प्रेतलिङ्गनिदर्शनम् । पठते शृणुते वापि प्रेतचिह्नं विनश्यति

etaddhi śraddhayā yastu pretaliṅganidarśanam / paṭhate śṛṇute vāpi pretacihnaṃ vinaśyati

For whoever with faith recites or even hears this exposition of the signs of pretas, his preta-mark is destroyed.

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