THE

GARUDA PURANA

(SARODDHARA)

WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION

BY

ERNEST WOOD

AND

S.V. SUBRAHMANYAM

AND

AN INTRODUCTION FROM SRIS CHANDRA VASU

Allahabad: Panini Office

[1911]

NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

CH. 1.

The Miseries of the Sinful in this World and the Other

2.

The Way of Yama

3.

The Torments of Yama

4.

The Kinds of Sins which lead to Hell

5.

The Signs of Sins

6.

The Miseries of Birth of the Sinful

7.

Babhruvahana's Sacrament for the Departed One

8.

The Gifts for the Dying

9.

The Rites for the Dying

10.

The Collecting of the Bones from the Fire

11.

The Ten-Days' Ceremonies

12.

The Eleventh-Day Rite

13.

The Ceremony for all the Ancestors

14.

The City of the King of Justice

15

The Coming to Birth of People who have done Good

16.

The Law for Liberation

INTRODUCTION.

This Garuda Purana Sarodhhara (Extracted essence of the Garuda Purana) was compiled or written by one Navanidhirama, son of S'ri Hari Narayana, who lived in the city of Jhunjhunu, which was ruled by a King S'ri Sukhalalaji. It was done for the helping of those who cannot understand the difficult earlier works; but itself is not easy to understand, and required much labour, the author informs us. It is entirely originally written, he says, and comprises the results of very deep study of the sacred books, and is the extracted essence of them on the subjects with which it deals.

It is used all over India at funeral ceremonies, but some are afraid to read it on other occasions, thinking it inauspicious.

CHAPTERS I to VII deal with Hells.

CHAPTERS VII to XIII deal with Ceremonies for the dead.