Garuda Purana — Uttara Khanda (Pretakalpa) — Chapter 38

GaP 2 38.1

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम्- ३८ तार्क्ष्य उवाच । दानतीर्थार्थितं मोक्षं स्वर्गञ्च वद मे प्रभो । केन मोक्षमवाप्नोति केन स्वर्गे वसेच्चिरम्

śrīgaruḍamahāpurāṇam- 38 tārkṣya uvāca / dānatīrthārthitaṃ mokṣaṃ svargañca vada me prabho / kena mokṣamavāpnoti kena svarge vasecciram

The Glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa, 38. Tārkṣya said: Tell me, O Lord, of liberation and heaven as sought through gifts and holy places. By what does one attain liberation, by what does one dwell long in heaven?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 2 38.2

केन गच्छति तेजस्तु स्वर्लोकात् सत्यलोकतः । मानुष्यं केन लभते नरकेशु निमज्जति

kena gacchati tejastu svarlokāt satyalokataḥ / mānuṣyaṃ kena labhate narakeśu nimajjati

By what does the fiery essence go from the heaven-world, from the world of truth? By what does one obtain human birth, (and by what) does one sink into the hells?

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 2 38.3

एतन्मे वदनिश्चित्य भक्तानां मोक्षदायक । ब्रूहि कस्मिन् मृते स्वर्गे पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते

etanme vadaniścitya bhaktānāṃ mokṣadāyaka / brūhi kasmin mṛte svarge punarjanma na vidyate

Tell me this with certainty, O giver of liberation to the devoted; say in whose death (i.e. dying in what place or state) there is heaven and no rebirth again.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 2 38.4

श्रीविष्णुरुवाच । मानुष्यं भारते वर्षे त्रयोदशसु जातिषु

śrīviṣṇuruvāca / mānuṣyaṃ bhārate varṣe trayodaśasu jātiṣu

The glorious Viṣṇu said: Human birth (occurs) in the land of Bharata, in thirteen (?) classes of birth.

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GaP 2 38.5

तत् प्राप्य म्रियते क्षेत्रे पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते । अयोध्या मथुरा माया काशी काञ्ची अवन्तिका

tat prāpya mriyate kṣetre punarjanma na vidyate / ayodhyā mathurā māyā kāśī kāñcī avantikā

Having attained that, one who dies in a (holy) field has no rebirth: Ayodhyā, Mathurā, Māyā (Haridvāra), Kāśī, Kāñcī, Avantikā,

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GaP 2 38.6

पुरी द्वारवती ज्ञेया सप्तैता मोक्षदायिकाः । सन्न्यस्तमिति यो ब्रुयात् प्राणैः कण्ठगतैरपि

purī dvāravatī jñeyā saptaitā mokṣadāyikāḥ / sannyastamiti yo bruyāt prāṇaiḥ kaṇṭhagatairapi

and the city Dvāravatī is to be known—these seven are givers of liberation. Whoever should say "I have renounced," even with his breath already at the throat,

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GaP 2 38.7

मृतो विष्णुपुरं याति न पुनर्जायते क्षितौ । सकृदुच्चरितं येन हरिरित्यक्षरद्वयम्

mṛto viṣṇupuraṃ yāti na punarjāyate kṣitau / sakṛduccaritaṃ yena harirityakṣaradvayam

when dead he goes to Viṣṇu's city and is not born again on earth. By whom the two syllables "Hari" have been uttered even once,

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GaP 2 38.8

बद्धः परिकरस्तेन मोक्षाय गमनं प्रति । कृष्णकृष्णेति कृष्णेति यो मां स्मरति नित्यशः

baddhaḥ parikarastena mokṣāya gamanaṃ prati / kṛṣṇakṛṣṇeti kṛṣṇeti yo māṃ smarati nityaśaḥ

by him the girdle has been fastened for the journey toward liberation. "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa," "Kṛṣṇa"—whoever remembers me constantly (thus),

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GaP 2 38.9

जल भित्त्वा यथा पद्मं नरकादुद्धराम्यहम् । शालग्रामजिला यत्र यत्र द्वारवती शिला

jala bhittvā yathā padmaṃ narakāduddharāmyaham / śālagrāmajilā yatra yatra dvāravatī śilā

him I lift out of hell as one plucks a lotus, breaking through the water. Where there is a śālagrāma stone, and where a Dvāravatī stone,

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GaP 2 38.10

उभयोः सङ्गमो यत्र मुक्तिस्तत्र न संशयः । शालग्रामशिला यत्र पापदोषक्षयावहा

ubhayoḥ saṅgamo yatra muktistatra na saṃśayaḥ / śālagrāmaśilā yatra pāpadoṣakṣayāvahā

where there is a conjunction of the two, there is liberation—no doubt of it. Where there is a śālagrāma stone, which brings about the destruction of sin and fault,

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GaP 2 38.11

तत्सन्निधानमरणान्मुक्तिर्जन्तोः सुनिश्चता । रोपणात् पालनात् सेकाद्ध्यानस्पर्शनकीर्तनात् । तुलसी दहते पापं नृणां जन्मार्जितं खग

tatsannidhānamaraṇānmuktirjantoḥ suniścatā / ropaṇāt pālanāt sekāddhyānasparśanakīrtanāt / tulasī dahate pāpaṃ nṛṇāṃ janmārjitaṃ khaga

by dying in its presence a creature's liberation is quite assured. By planting, tending, watering, meditating on, touching and praising (her), the tulasī burns away the sin men have accumulated in (their) birth, O bird.

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GaP 2 38.12

ज्ञानहृदे सत्यजले रागद्वेषमलापहे । यः स्नातो मानसे तीर्थे न स लिप्येत पातकैः

jñānahṛde satyajale rāgadveṣamalāpahe / yaḥ snāto mānase tīrthe na sa lipyeta pātakaiḥ

In the pool of knowledge, whose water is truth, which removes the dirt of desire and hatred—he who has bathed in that inner holy place is not smeared with sins.

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GaP 2 38.13

न काष्ठे विद्यते देवो न शिलायां कदाचन । भावे हि विद्यते देवस्तस्माद्भावं समाचरेत्

na kāṣṭhe vidyate devo na śilāyāṃ kadācana / bhāve hi vidyate devastasmādbhāvaṃ samācaret

God is not present in wood, nor ever in stone; God is present in inner disposition, therefore one should cultivate that disposition.

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GaP 2 38.14

प्रातः प्रातः प्रपश्यन्ति नर्मदां मत्स्यघातिनः । न ते शिवपुरीं यान्ति चित्तवृत्तिर्गरीयसी

prātaḥ prātaḥ prapaśyanti narmadāṃ matsyaghātinaḥ / na te śivapurīṃ yānti cittavṛttirgarīyasī

Fish-killers look upon the Narmadā morning after morning, (yet) they do not go to Śiva's city: the state of the mind counts for more.

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GaP 2 38.15

यादृक् चित्तप्रतीतिः स्यात् तादृक् कर्मफलं नृणाम् । परलोकगतिस्तादृक सूचीसूत्रविचारवत्

yādṛk cittapratītiḥ syāt tādṛk karmaphalaṃ nṛṇām / paralokagatistādṛka sūcīsūtravicāravat

As is the conviction of the mind, so is the fruit of men's action; such too is their going to the next world—as in the reckoning of needle and thread.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 2 38.16

ब्राह्मणार्थे गवार्थे च स्त्रीणां बलवधेषु च । प्राणत्यागपरो यस्तु स वै मोक्षमवाप्नुयात्

brāhmaṇārthe gavārthe ca strīṇāṃ balavadheṣu ca / prāṇatyāgaparo yastu sa vai mokṣamavāpnuyāt

He who is intent on giving up his life for the sake of a brahmin, for the sake of cows, and in the violent slaughter of women — he indeed attains release.

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GaP 2 38.17

अनाशके मृतौ यस्तु स वै मोक्षमवाप्नुयात् । अनाशके मृतो यस्तु स मुक्तः सर्वबन्धनैः

anāśake mṛtau yastu sa vai mokṣamavāpnuyāt / anāśake mṛto yastu sa muktaḥ sarvabandhanaiḥ

And he who dies in a fast unto death — he indeed attains release; he who has died in a fast unto death is freed from all bonds.

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GaP 2 38.18

दत्त्वा दानानि विप्रेभ्यस्ततो मोक्षमवाप्नुयात् । एते वै मोक्षमार्गाश्च स्वर्गमार्गास्तथैव च

dattvā dānāni viprebhyastato mokṣamavāpnuyāt / ete vai mokṣamārgāśca svargamārgāstathaiva ca

Having given gifts to brahmins, he thereby attains release. These indeed are the paths to release, and likewise the paths to heaven.

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GaP 2 38.19

गोग्रहे देशविध्वंसे मरणं रणतीर्थयोः । उत्तमाधममध्यस्य बाध्यमानस्य देहिनः । आत्मानं तत्र सन्त्यज्य स्वर्गवासं लभेच्चिरम्

gograhe deśavidhvaṃse maraṇaṃ raṇatīrthayoḥ / uttamādhamamadhyasya bādhyamānasya dehinaḥ / ātmānaṃ tatra santyajya svargavāsaṃ labhecciram

Death in a cattle-raid, in the destruction of one's country, in battle, or at a holy ford — for an embodied being of the highest, lowest, or middling sort who is being oppressed, giving up his body there, he would obtain a long dwelling in heaven.

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GaP 2 38.20

जीवितं मरणञ्चैव द्वयं शिक्षेत पण्डितः । जीवितं दानभोगाभ्यां मरणं रणतीर्थयोः

jīvitaṃ maraṇañcaiva dvayaṃ śikṣeta paṇḍitaḥ / jīvitaṃ dānabhogābhyāṃ maraṇaṃ raṇatīrthayoḥ

A wise man should learn both of these, living and dying: living, by giving and by enjoyment; dying, in battle or at a holy ford.

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GaP 2 38.21

हरिक्षेत्रे कुरुक्षेत्रे भृगुक्षेत्रे तथैव च । प्रभासे श्रीस्थले चैव अर्बुदे च त्रिपुष्करे

harikṣetre kurukṣetre bhṛgukṣetre tathaiva ca / prabhāse śrīsthale caiva arbude ca tripuṣkare

At Harikṣetra, at Kurukṣetra, and likewise at Bhṛgukṣetra, at Prabhāsa and at Śrīsthala, at Arbuda and at Tripuṣkara,

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GaP 2 38.22

भूतेश्वरे मृतो यस्तु स्वर्गे वसति मानवः । ब्रह्मणो दिवसं यावत् ततः पतति भूतले

bhūteśvare mṛto yastu svarge vasati mānavaḥ / brahmaṇo divasaṃ yāvat tataḥ patati bhūtale

and the man who dies at Bhūteśvara dwells in heaven for as long as a day of Brahmā; then he falls to the earth.

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GaP 2 38.23

वर्षवृत्तिन्तु यो दद्याद्ब्राह्मणे दोषवर्जिते । सर्वं कलं स मुद्धृत्य स्वर्गलोके महीयते

varṣavṛttintu yo dadyādbrāhmaṇe doṣavarjite / sarvaṃ kalaṃ sa muddhṛtya svargaloke mahīyate

But he who gives a year's livelihood to a faultless brahmin — having lifted up his whole household(?), he is honoured in the world of heaven.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 2 38.26

कन्यां विवाहयेद्यस्तु ब्राह्मणं वेदपारगम् । इन्द्रलोके वसेत् सो ऽपि स्वकुलैः परिवेष्टितः ॥ गर्प्_२,३८।२४ ॥ महादानानि दत्वा च नरस्तत्फलमामुयात् ॥ गर्प्_२,३८।२५ ॥ वापी कूपतडागानामारामसुरसद्मनाम् । जीर्णोद्धारं प्रकुर्वाणः पूर्वकर्तुः फलं लभेत् । जीर्णोद्धारेण वा तेषां तत् पुण्यं द्विगुणं भवेत्

kanyāṃ vivāhayedyastu brāhmaṇaṃ vedapāragam / indraloke vaset so 'pi svakulaiḥ pariveṣṭitaḥ // garp_2,38.24 // mahādānāni datvā ca narastatphalamāmuyāt // garp_2,38.25 // vāpī kūpataḍāgānāmārāmasurasadmanām / jīrṇoddhāraṃ prakurvāṇaḥ pūrvakartuḥ phalaṃ labhet / jīrṇoddhāreṇa vā teṣāṃ tat puṇyaṃ dviguṇaṃ bhavet

He who gives a maiden in marriage to a brahmin who has mastered the Vedas — he too dwells in Indra's world, surrounded by his own kin. (24) And a man who has given the great gifts obtains the fruit of that. (25) He who carries out the restoration of what has fallen into ruin — step-wells, wells and tanks, gardens and temples of the gods — obtains the fruit of the original builder; or rather, by such restoration of them that merit becomes double.

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GaP 2 38.29

शीतवा तातपहरमपि पर्णकुटीरकम् । कृत्वा विप्राय विदुषे प्रददाति कुटुम्बिने ॥ गर्प्_२,३८।२७ ॥ तिस्रः कोट्योर्धकोटी च नरः स्वर्गे महीयते ॥ गर्प्_२,३८।२८ ॥ या स्त्री सवर्णा संशुबा मृतं पतिमनुव्रजेत् । सा मृता स्वर्गमाप्नोति वर्षाणां रोमसंख्यता

śītavā tātapaharamapi parṇakuṭīrakam / kṛtvā viprāya viduṣe pradadāti kuṭumbine // garp_2,38.27 // tisraḥ koṭyordhakoṭī ca naraḥ svarge mahīyate // garp_2,38.28 // yā strī savarṇā saṃśubā mṛtaṃ patimanuvrajet / sā mṛtā svargamāpnoti varṣāṇāṃ romasaṃkhyatā

He who, having made even a little leaf hut that keeps off the cold and the heat, gives it to a learned brahmin with a family (27) — that man is honoured in heaven for three and a half crores (of years). (28) The woman of the same class and of good conduct who follows her dead husband — she, having died, attains heaven for as many years as (she has) hairs (on her body).

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GaP 2 38.30

पुत्रपौत्रादिकं त्यक्त्वा स्वपतिं यानुगच्छति । स्वर्गं लभेतां तौ चोभौ दिव्यस्त्रीभिरलङ्कृतौ

putrapautrādikaṃ tyaktvā svapatiṃ yānugacchati / svargaṃ labhetāṃ tau cobhau divyastrībhiralaṅkṛtau

She who, abandoning sons, grandsons and the rest, follows her own husband — those two both obtain heaven, adorned by celestial women.

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GaP 2 38.31

कृत्वा पापान्यनेकानि भर्तृद्रोहमतिः सदा । प्रक्षालयति सर्वाणि या स्वं पतिमनुव्रजेत्

kṛtvā pāpānyanekāni bhartṛdrohamatiḥ sadā / prakṣālayati sarvāṇi yā svaṃ patimanuvrajet

She who follows her own husband washes away all sins, (even) having committed many sins and having always had a mind hostile to her husband.

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GaP 2 38.32

महापापसमाचारो भर्ता चेद्दुष्कृती भवेत् । तस्याप्यनुव्रता नारी नारायेत् सर्वकिल्बिषम्

mahāpāpasamācāro bhartā cedduṣkṛtī bhavet / tasyāpyanuvratā nārī nārāyet sarvakilbiṣam

Even if the husband be an evildoer whose conduct is one of great sins, a woman devoted to him would destroy all that guilt.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.33

ग्रासमात्रं नियमतो नित्यदानं करोति यः । चतुश्चामरसंयुक्तविमानेनाधिगच्छति

grāsamātraṃ niyamato nityadānaṃ karoti yaḥ / catuścāmarasaṃyuktavimānenādhigacchati

He who, as a rule, makes a daily gift of even just a mouthful of food, goes (to heaven) in an aerial car furnished with four whisks.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.34

यत् कृतं हि मनुष्येण पापमामरणान्तिकम् । तत् सर्वं नाशमायाति वर्षवृत्तिप्रदानतः

yat kṛtaṃ hi manuṣyeṇa pāpamāmaraṇāntikam / tat sarvaṃ nāśamāyāti varṣavṛttipradānataḥ

Whatever sin has been committed by a man up to the very end of his life, all that comes to destruction through the gift of a year's livelihood.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.35

भूतं भव्यं बविष्यञ्च पापं जन्मत्रयार्जितम् । पक्षालयति तत् सर्वं विप्रकन्योपनायनात्

bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ baviṣyañca pāpaṃ janmatrayārjitam / pakṣālayati tat sarvaṃ viprakanyopanāyanāt

Sin past, present and future, accumulated in three births — he washes all that away by having a brahmin's daughter initiated.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

GaP 2 38.36

दशकूपसमा वापि दशवापीसमं सरः । सरो भिर्दशभिस्तुल्या या प्रपा निर्जले वने

daśakūpasamā vāpi daśavāpīsamaṃ saraḥ / saro bhirdaśabhistulyā yā prapā nirjale vane

A step-well equals ten wells, a lake equals ten step-wells, and equal to ten lakes is a water-station in a waterless forest.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.37

या वापी निर्जले देशे यद्दानं निर्धने द्विजे । प्राणिनां यो दयां धत्ते स भवेन्नाकनायकः

yā vāpī nirjale deśe yaddānaṃ nirdhane dvije / prāṇināṃ yo dayāṃ dhatte sa bhavennākanāyakaḥ

A step-well in a waterless region, a gift to a poor brahmin — he who shows compassion to living beings becomes the lord of heaven.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.38

एवमादिभिरन्यैश्च सुकृतैः स्वर्गभाग्भवेत् । स तत् सर्वं फलं प्राप्य प्रतिष्ठां परमां लभेत्

evamādibhiranyaiśca sukṛtaiḥ svargabhāgbhavet / sa tat sarvaṃ phalaṃ prāpya pratiṣṭhāṃ paramāṃ labhet

By these and other good deeds one becomes a sharer in heaven; obtaining all that fruit, he attains the highest standing.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.39

फल्गु कार्यं परित्यज्य सततं धर्मवान् भवेत् । दानं दमो दया चेति सारमेतत् त्रयं भुवि

phalgu kāryaṃ parityajya satataṃ dharmavān bhavet / dānaṃ damo dayā ceti sārametat trayaṃ bhuvi

Abandoning trifling business, one should be constantly righteous. Giving, self-restraint and compassion — these three are the essence on earth.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

GaP 2 38.40

दानं साधोर्दरिद्रस्य शून्यलिङ्गस्य पूजनम् । अनाथप्रेतसंस्कारः कोटियज्ञफलप्रदः

dānaṃ sādhordaridrasya śūnyaliṅgasya pūjanam / anāthapretasaṃskāraḥ koṭiyajñaphalapradaḥ

A gift to a poor good man, worship at a deserted liṅga, and the funeral rites of an unclaimed dead person — (each) yields the fruit of ten million sacrifices.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition