Garuda Purana — Uttara Khanda (Pretakalpa) — Chapter 25
GaP 2 25.1
श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- २५ श्रीविष्णुरुवाच । अतः परं प्रवक्ष्यामि पुरुषस्त्री विनिर्णयम् । जीवन्वापि मृतो वापि पञ्चवर्षाधिको ऽपि वा
śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 25 śrīviṣṇuruvāca / ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi puruṣastrī vinirṇayam / jīvanvāpi mṛto vāpi pañcavarṣādhiko 'pi vā
The Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 25. The blessed Viṣṇu said: Next I shall declare the determination concerning man and woman, whether living or dead, or over five years of age.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.2
पूर्णे तु पञ्चमे वर्षे पुमांश्चैव प्रतिष्ठितः । सर्वैन्द्रियाणि जानाति रूपारूपविपर्ययौ
pūrṇe tu pañcame varṣe pumāṃścaiva pratiṣṭhitaḥ / sarvaindriyāṇi jānāti rūpārūpaviparyayau
When the fifth year is complete, he is established as a male; he knows all the sense-faculties (or: sense-objects), and the distinction of form and formlessness.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.3
पूर्वकर्मविपाकेन प्राणिनां वधबन्धनम् । विप्रादीनन्त्यजान्सर्वान्पापं मारयति ध्रुवम्
pūrvakarmavipākena prāṇināṃ vadhabandhanam / viprādīnantyajānsarvānpāpaṃ mārayati dhruvam
Through the ripening of former deeds comes the slaying and binding of living beings; he sinfully kills brahmins and all the lowest-born, assuredly.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.4
गर्भे नष्टे क्रिया नास्ति दुग्धं देयं मृते शिशौ । परं च पायसं क्षीरं दद्याद्वलविपत्तितः
garbhe naṣṭe kriyā nāsti dugdhaṃ deyaṃ mṛte śiśau / paraṃ ca pāyasaṃ kṣīraṃ dadyādvalavipattitaḥ
When the embryo is lost there is no rite; milk is to be given when an infant has died; and further one should give milk-rice and milk, according to (the manner of) the child's death.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.5
एकादशाहं द्वादशाहं वृषं वृषविधिं विना । महादानविहीनं च कुमारे कृत्यमादिशेत्
ekādaśāhaṃ dvādaśāhaṃ vṛṣaṃ vṛṣavidhiṃ vinā / mahādānavihīnaṃ ca kumāre kṛtyamādiśet
The eleventh-day and twelfth-day (rites), and the bull—but without the bull-rite and without the great gifts—one should prescribe as the observance for a boy.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.6
कुमाराणां चैव बालानां भोजनं वस्त्रवेष्टनम् । बाले वा तरुणे वृद्धे घटो भवति वै मृते
kumārāṇāṃ caiva bālānāṃ bhojanaṃ vastraveṣṭanam / bāle vā taruṇe vṛddhe ghaṭo bhavati vai mṛte
And for boys and for infants there is feeding and wrapping in cloth; but for a child, a youth, or an old man, when dead, there is indeed the (water-)pot.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.7
भूमौ विनिः क्षिपेद्बालं द्विमासोनं द्विवार्षिकम् । ततः परं खगश्रेष्ठ देहदाहो विधोयते
bhūmau viniḥ kṣipedbālaṃ dvimāsonaṃ dvivārṣikam / tataḥ paraṃ khagaśreṣṭha dehadāho vidhoyate
One should place in the ground a child of two years less two months; beyond that, O best of birds, cremation of the body is enjoined.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.8
शिशुरा दन्तजननाद्बालः स्याद्यावदाशिखम् । कथ्यते सर्वशास्त्रेषु कुमारो मौञ्जिबन्धनात्
śiśurā dantajananādbālaḥ syādyāvadāśikham / kathyate sarvaśāstreṣu kumāro mauñjibandhanāt
He is a śiśu until the teeth appear; he is a bāla until the tuft (i.e. the tonsure); in all the śāstras he is called kumāra from the tying of the muñja girdle.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.9
शूद्रादीनां कथं कुर्यात्संशयो मौञ्जिवर्जनात् । गर्भाच्च नवमं हित्वा शिशुरामासषोडशम्
śūdrādīnāṃ kathaṃ kuryātsaṃśayo mauñjivarjanāt / garbhācca navamaṃ hitvā śiśurāmāsaṣoḍaśam
How should (one perform the rites) for śūdras and others? There is doubt, since they lack the muñja-girdle. Leaving aside the ninth (month) from conception, (a child) is a "infant" (śiśu) up to sixteen months.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.10
बालश्चाथ परञ्ज्ञेय आमाससप्तविंशति । आ पञ्च वर्षात्कौमारः पौगण्डो नवहांयनः
bālaścātha parañjñeya āmāsasaptaviṃśati / ā pañca varṣātkaumāraḥ paugaṇḍo navahāṃyanaḥ
Then he is to be known as a "boy" (bāla) up to twenty-seven months; up to five years he is kaumāra; at nine years, paugaṇḍa.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.11
किशोरः षोडशाब्दः स्यात्ततो यौवनमादिशेत् । मृतो ऽपि पञ्चमे वर्षे अवृतः सवृतो ऽपि वा
kiśoraḥ ṣoḍaśābdaḥ syāttato yauvanamādiśet / mṛto 'pi pañcame varṣe avṛtaḥ savṛto 'pi vā
At sixteen years he would be a kiśora; after that one should call it youth. Even if he has died in the fifth year, whether uninvested (with the girdle) or invested,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.12
पूर्वोक्तमेव कर्तव्यमीहते दशपिण्डकम् । स्वल्पकर्मप्रसङ्गाच्च स्वल्पाद्विषयबन्धनात्
pūrvoktameva kartavyamīhate daśapiṇḍakam / svalpakarmaprasaṅgācca svalpādviṣayabandhanāt
just what was stated before is to be done; (such a one) desires the ten piṇḍas — because he is connected with but little ritual action, and because his bondage to sense-objects is slight.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.13
स्वल्षाद्वपुषि वस्त्राच्च क्रियां स्वल्पामपीच्छति । यावदुपचयो जन्तुर्यावद्विषयवेष्टितः
svalṣādvapuṣi vastrācca kriyāṃ svalpāmapīcchati / yāvadupacayo janturyāvadviṣayaveṣṭitaḥ
Because of the smallness of his body and of his clothing, he desires only a small rite; (only) so far as the creature has grown, so far as he is wrapped up in sense-objects.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.14
यद्यद्यस्योपजीव्यं स्यात्तत्तद्देयमिहेच्छति । ब्रह्मबीजोद्भवाः पुत्रा देवर्षोणां च वल्लभाः
yadyadyasyopajīvyaṃ syāttattaddeyamihecchati / brahmabījodbhavāḥ putrā devarṣoṇāṃ ca vallabhāḥ
Whatever is a means of living for whomever, that is what he here desires to be given. Sons born of the brahman-seed, and dear to the divine sages,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.15
यमेन यमदूतैश्च शास्यन्ते निश्चितं खग । बालो वृद्धो युबा वापि घटमिच्छन्ति देहिनः
yamena yamadūtaiśca śāsyante niścitaṃ khaga / bālo vṛddho yubā vāpi ghaṭamicchanti dehinaḥ
are assuredly governed by Yama and Yama's messengers, O bird. Child, old man, or youth — embodied beings (all) desire the water-pot (offering).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.16
सुखं दुः खं सदा वेत्ति देही वै सर्वगस्त्विह । परित्यज्य तदात्मानं जीर्णां त्वचमिवोरगः
sukhaṃ duḥ khaṃ sadā vetti dehī vai sarvagastviha / parityajya tadātmānaṃ jīrṇāṃ tvacamivoragaḥ
The embodied one, indeed all-pervading here, always knows pleasure and pain; abandoning that body (of his) as a snake does its worn-out skin —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.17
अङ्गुष्ठमात्रः पुरुषो वायुभृतः क्षुधान्वितः । तस्माद्देयानि दानानि मृते बाले सुनिश्चितम्
aṅguṣṭhamātraḥ puruṣo vāyubhṛtaḥ kṣudhānvitaḥ / tasmāddeyāni dānāni mṛte bāle suniścitam
the person, thumb-sized, sustained by wind, beset by hunger. Therefore gifts are quite certainly to be given when a child has died.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.18
जन्मतः पञ्च वर्षाणि भुङ्क्ते दत्तमसंस्कृतम् । पञ्चवर्षाधिके बाले विपत्तिर्यदि जायते
janmataḥ pañca varṣāṇi bhuṅkte dattamasaṃskṛtam / pañcavarṣādhike bāle vipattiryadi jāyate
For five years from birth he enjoys what is given (even though he is) unconsecrated. If death befalls a child over five years old,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.19
वृषोत्सर्गादिकं कर्म सपिण्डीकरणं विना । द्वादशे हनि सम्प्राप्ते कुर्याच्छ्राद्धानि षोडश
vṛṣotsargādikaṃ karma sapiṇḍīkaraṇaṃ vinā / dvādaśe hani samprāpte kuryācchrāddhāni ṣoḍaśa
the rites beginning with the release of a bull (are to be done), but without the sapiṇḍīkaraṇa; when the twelfth day has come one should perform the sixteen śrāddhas.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.20
पायसेन गुडेनापि पिण्डान्दद्याद्यथाक्रमम् । उदकुम्भप्रदानं च पद (उप) दानानि यानि च
pāyasena guḍenāpi piṇḍāndadyādyathākramam / udakumbhapradānaṃ ca pada (upa) dānāni yāni ca
One should offer the piṇḍas in due order with milk-rice and also with jaggery; and (there is) the giving of a water-jar, and whatever foot-gifts (or: supplementary gifts) there are.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.21
भोजनानि द्विजे दद्यान्महादानादि शक्तितः । दीपदानादि यत्किञ्चित्पञ्चवर्षाधिके सदा
bhojanāni dvije dadyānmahādānādi śaktitaḥ / dīpadānādi yatkiñcitpañcavarṣādhike sadā
He should give meals to a brahmin, and the great gifts and so on according to his ability; and whatever lamp-gifts and the like — always, in the case of one over five years old.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.22
कर्तव्यं च खगश्रेष्ठ व्रतात्प्राक् प्रेततृप्तये । यदा नक्रियते सर्वं मुद्गलत्वं स गच्छति
kartavyaṃ ca khagaśreṣṭha vratātprāk pretatṛptaye / yadā nakriyate sarvaṃ mudgalatvaṃ sa gacchati
And (all this) is to be done, O best of birds, before the (initiation-)vow, for the satisfaction of the departed. When it is not all done, he goes to the state of a mudgala (a kind of ghost).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.23
व्रतात्प्राङ्गेव देयं तु ततः पितृगणस्य च । स्वाहाकारेण वै कुर्यादेकोद्दिष्टानि षोडश
vratātprāṅgeva deyaṃ tu tataḥ pitṛgaṇasya ca / svāhākāreṇa vai kuryādekoddiṣṭāni ṣoḍaśa
Before the vow (of initiation) it is to be given (to him alone), and after that also to the company of the fathers; one should perform the sixteen ekoddiṣṭa rites with the utterance svāhā.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.24
ऋजुदर्भैस्तिलैः शुक्लैः प्राचीनावीति निश्चितम् । अपसव्यं च कर्तव्यं कृते यान्ति परां गतिम्
ṛjudarbhaistilaiḥ śuklaiḥ prācīnāvīti niścitam / apasavyaṃ ca kartavyaṃ kṛte yānti parāṃ gatim
With straight darbha grasses, with white sesame, with the sacred thread worn over the right shoulder, assuredly; and it is to be done in the reverse (apasavya) manner. When it is done, they go to the highest course.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.25
पुनश्चिरायुषो भूत्वा जायन्ते स्वकुले ध्रुवम् । सर्वसौख्यप्रदः पुत्रः पित्रोः प्रीतिविवर्धनः
punaścirāyuṣo bhūtvā jāyante svakule dhruvam / sarvasaukhyapradaḥ putraḥ pitroḥ prītivivardhanaḥ
And again, becoming long-lived, they are surely born in one's own family — a son who bestows every happiness and increases the joy of his parents.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.26
आकाशमेकं हि यथा चन्द्रादित्यौ यथैकतः । घटादिषु पृथक् सर्वं पश्य रूपं च तत्समम्
ākāśamekaṃ hi yathā candrādityau yathaikataḥ / ghaṭādiṣu pṛthak sarvaṃ paśya rūpaṃ ca tatsamam
For just as the sky is one, as the moon and sun are single, (yet) in pots and the like everything appears separate — look, and (know) the form (of the self) is just like that.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.27
आत्मा तथैव सर्वेषु पुत्त्रेषु विचरेत्सदा । या यस्य प्रकृतिः पूर्वं शुक्रशोणितसङ्गमे
ātmā tathaiva sarveṣu puttreṣu vicaretsadā / yā yasya prakṛtiḥ pūrvaṃ śukraśoṇitasaṅgame
Just so the self ever moves about in all sons. Whatever a man's nature was before, at the union of semen and blood —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.28
सा (स) तेन भावयोगेन पुत्त्रास्तत्कर्मकारिणः । पितृरूपं समादाय कस्यचिज्जायते सुतः
sā (sa) tena bhāvayogena puttrāstatkarmakāriṇaḥ / pitṛrūpaṃ samādāya kasyacijjāyate sutaḥ
by that connection with (his) disposition, sons are doers of that same (father's) action; taking on the father's form, someone's son is born.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.29
पितृतः को ऽपि रूपाढ्यो गुणज्ञो दानतत्परः । सदृशः को ऽपि लोके ऽस्मिन्न भूतो न भविष्यति
pitṛtaḥ ko 'pi rūpāḍhyo guṇajño dānatatparaḥ / sadṛśaḥ ko 'pi loke 'sminna bhūto na bhaviṣyati
From the father someone (is born) rich in beauty, knowing good qualities, devoted to giving; but no one in this world has been, or will be, exactly like (his father).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.30
अन्धादन्धो न भवति मूकान्मूको न जायते । बधिराद्बधिरो नैव विद्यावान्विदुषो न हि । अनुरूपा न दृश्यन्ते मदीयं वचनं शृणु
andhādandho na bhavati mūkānmūko na jāyate / badhirādbadhiro naiva vidyāvānviduṣo na hi / anurūpā na dṛśyante madīyaṃ vacanaṃ śṛṇu
From a blind man a blind son is not born, from a mute a mute is not born, from a deaf man certainly not a deaf one, nor from a learned man a learned one. (Children) are not seen to be like (their fathers) — hear my words.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.31
गरुड उवाच । औरसक्षेत्रजाद्याश्च पुत्त्रा दशविधाः स्मृताः । संगृहीतः सुतो यस्तु दासीपुत्त्रश्च तेन किम्
garuḍa uvāca / aurasakṣetrajādyāśca puttrā daśavidhāḥ smṛtāḥ / saṃgṛhītaḥ suto yastu dāsīputtraśca tena kim
Garuḍa said: Sons are declared to be of ten kinds, the natural-born (aurasa), the one begotten on the wife (kṣetraja), and so on. But as for the son who is taken in (adopted) and the son of a slave woman — what (use) is he?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.32
काङ्कां गतिमवाप्नोति जायो मृत्युवशं गतः । भवेन्न दुहिता यस्य न दौहित्रो न वा सुतः
kāṅkāṃ gatimavāpnoti jāyo mṛtyuvaśaṃ gataḥ / bhavenna duhitā yasya na dauhitro na vā sutaḥ
What destiny does a man attain who has gone under the sway of death, and who has no daughter, no daughter's son, nor a son?
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.33
श्राद्धं तस्य कथं कार्यं विधिना केन तद्भवेत् । श्रीभगवानुवाच । मुखं दृष्ट्वा तु पुत्रस्य मुच्यते पैतृकादृणात्
śrāddhaṃ tasya kathaṃ kāryaṃ vidhinā kena tadbhavet / śrībhagavānuvāca / mukhaṃ dṛṣṭvā tu putrasya mucyate paitṛkādṛṇāt
How is his śrāddha to be performed, and by what rite would it be (done)? The Blessed Lord said: Merely by seeing the face of a son one is freed from the debt to the fathers.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.34
पौत्त्रस्य दर्शनाज्जन्तुर्मुच्यते चः ऋणत्रयात् । लोकानन्त्यं दिवः प्राप्तिः पुत्त्रपौत्त्र प्रपौत्त्रकैः
pauttrasya darśanājjanturmucyate caḥ ṛṇatrayāt / lokānantyaṃ divaḥ prāptiḥ puttrapauttra prapauttrakaiḥ
By seeing a grandson a creature is freed from the three debts; through sons, grandsons and great-grandsons (comes) endlessness of worlds and the attainment of heaven.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.35
अन्यक्षेत्रोद्भवाद्या ये भुक्तिमात्रप्रदाः सुताः । कुर्वीत पार्वणं श्राद्धमारैसो विधिवत्सुतः
anyakṣetrodbhavādyā ye bhuktimātrapradāḥ sutāḥ / kurvīta pārvaṇaṃ śrāddhamāraiso vidhivatsutaḥ
Those sons who are born from another's field and the rest give only enjoyment (of food); (but) the natural-born son should perform the pārvaṇa śrāddha according to rule.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.36
कुर्वन्त्यन्ये सुताः श्राद्धमे कोद्दिष्टं न पार्वणम् । ब्राह्मोढाजस्तून्नयति संगृहीतस्त्वधो नयेत् । श्राद्धं सांवत्सरं कुर्वञ्जायते नरकाय वै
kurvantyanye sutāḥ śrāddhame koddiṣṭaṃ na pārvaṇam / brāhmoḍhājastūnnayati saṃgṛhītastvadho nayet / śrāddhaṃ sāṃvatsaraṃ kurvañjāyate narakāya vai
Other sons perform the ekoddiṣṭa śrāddha, not the pārvaṇa. A son born of a woman married by the brāhma rite raises (the father) up, while an adopted son leads (him) downward; performing the annual śrāddha, he (the adopted son) is born for hell.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.37
सर्वदानानि देयानि ह्यन्न दानादृते खग । संगृहीतः सुतः कुर्यादेकोद्दिष्टं न पार्वणम्
sarvadānāni deyāni hyanna dānādṛte khaga / saṃgṛhītaḥ sutaḥ kuryādekoddiṣṭaṃ na pārvaṇam
All gifts are to be given, but none apart from the gift of food, O bird. An adopted son should perform the ekoddiṣṭa, not the pārvaṇa.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.38
प्रत्यब्दं पितृमातृभ्यां श्राद्धं दत्त्वा न लिप्यते । एकोद्दिष्टं परित्यज्य पार्वणं कुरुते यदि
pratyabdaṃ pitṛmātṛbhyāṃ śrāddhaṃ dattvā na lipyate / ekoddiṣṭaṃ parityajya pārvaṇaṃ kurute yadi
Giving the śrāddha year by year for father and mother, he is not tainted; (but) if, abandoning the ekoddiṣṭa, he performs the pārvaṇa —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.39
आत्मानं च पितॄंश्चैव स नयेद्यममन्दिरम् । संगृहीतस्तु यः केचिद्दासीपुत्त्रादयश्च ये
ātmānaṃ ca pitṝṃścaiva sa nayedyamamandiram / saṃgṛhītastu yaḥ keciddāsīputtrādayaśca ye
— he would lead both himself and the fathers to Yama's house. But whatever adopted sons there are, and those who are sons of slave women and the like,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.40
तीर्थे कुर्युः पितृश्राद्धं दानं (मासं) दद्युर्द्विजन्मने । संगृहीतसुतो भूत्वा पाकं वा यः प्रयच्छति
tīrthe kuryuḥ pitṛśrāddhaṃ dānaṃ (māsaṃ) dadyurdvijanmane / saṃgṛhītasuto bhūtvā pākaṃ vā yaḥ prayacchati
they should perform the śrāddha for the fathers at a sacred ford and give a gift (a month's food?) to a twice-born. And whoever, having become an adopted son, offers even cooked food —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.41
वृथा श्राद्धं विजानीयाच्छूद्रान्नेन यथा द्विजः । न प्रीणयति तच्छ्राद्धं पितामहमुखान्पितॄन् । एवं ज्ञात्वा स्वगश्रेष्ठ हीनजातीन्सुतांस्त्यजेत्
vṛthā śrāddhaṃ vijānīyācchūdrānnena yathā dvijaḥ / na prīṇayati tacchrāddhaṃ pitāmahamukhānpitṝn / evaṃ jñātvā svagaśreṣṭha hīnajātīnsutāṃstyajet
— one should know that śrāddha to be in vain, as (is that performed) by a twice-born with a śūdra's food. That śrāddha does not gratify the fathers headed by the grandfather. Knowing this, O best of sky-goers, one should reject sons of low birth.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.42
(ब्राह्मण्यां ब्राह्मणाज्जातश्चाण्डालादधमः स्मृतः ) । यस्तु प्रव्रजिताज्जातो ब्राह्मण्यां शूद्रतश्च यः
(brāhmaṇyāṃ brāhmaṇājjātaścāṇḍālādadhamaḥ smṛtaḥ ) / yastu pravrajitājjāto brāhmaṇyāṃ śūdrataśca yaḥ
(One born of a brāhmaṇa woman by a brāhmaṇa (of bad conduct?) is declared lower than a cāṇḍāla.) And he who is born of a wandering ascetic upon a brāhmaṇa woman, and he who is (born) of a śūdra (upon her) —
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.43
द्वावेतौ विद्धि चाण्डालौ सगोत्राद्यस्तु जायते । स्वर्यातिविहितान्पुत्रः समुत्पाद्य खगेश्वर
dvāvetau viddhi cāṇḍālau sagotrādyastu jāyate / svaryātivihitānputraḥ samutpādya khageśvara
— know these two to be cāṇḍālas, and (also) him who is born from one of the same gotra. Having begotten the prescribed sons, O lord of birds, a son goes to heaven.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
GaP 2 25.44
तैः सुवृत्तैः सुखं प्राप्यं कुवृत्तैर्नरकं व्रजेत् । हीनजातिसमुद्भूतैः सुवृत्तैः सुखमेधते
taiḥ suvṛttaiḥ sukhaṃ prāpyaṃ kuvṛttairnarakaṃ vrajet / hīnajātisamudbhūtaiḥ suvṛttaiḥ sukhamedhate
Through them, if of good conduct, happiness is to be obtained; through those of bad conduct one would go to hell. Even by those born of low caste, if of good conduct, one prospers in happiness.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
GaP 2 25.45
कलिकलुषविमुक्तः पूजितः सिद्धसङ्घैरमरचमरमालावीज्यमानो ऽप्सरोभिः । पितृशतमपि बन्धून्पुत्त्रपौत्त्रप्रपौत्त्रानपि नरकनिमग्नानुद्धरेदेक एव
kalikaluṣavimuktaḥ pūjitaḥ siddhasaṅghairamaracamaramālāvījyamāno 'psarobhiḥ / pitṛśatamapi bandhūnputtrapauttraprapauttrānapi narakanimagnānuddharedeka eva
Freed from the taint of the Kali age, honoured by the throngs of Siddhas, fanned by immortals with rows of yak-tail whisks and by apsarases, one man alone can raise up even a hundred fathers, and kinsmen, sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, sunk in hell.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition