The Garuda Purana, Part 7
BY: SUN STAFF
Garuda, 19th c. Kerala Carving
Jan 10, CANADA (SUN) — Garuda Purana, Chapters Twelve and Thirteen.
Chapter Twelve
An Account of the Eleventh-day Rite
1. Garuda said: O Lord of the Holy Ones, tell me about the eleventh-day rite also, and, O Ruler of the universe, explain the ceremony of the dedication of the bull.
2. The Blessed Lord said: In the early morning on the eleventh day one should go to a water-reservoir, and perform diligently all the funeral ceremonies.
3. He should invite Brahmins, well-read in Vedas and Sastras, and bowing their heads, with hands folded together, pray for the release of the departed.
4. Even a preceptor should become purified by bathing, and performing the Sandhya and other ceremonies; one should do the eleventh-day ceremony, as prescribed.
5. One should perform the tenth-day Sraddha in the family name, without mantras; and on the eleventh day, offer a rice-ball to the departed, with mantras.
6-10. One should make a golden image of Visnu, a silver one of Brahma, a copper one of Rudra, and an iron one of Yama, O Bird.
To the west there should be a pot filled with Ganges water for Visnu; and upon it one should place Visnu, clad in yellow robes.
To the east there should be a pot of milk and water for Brahma; and there one should place Brahma, clad in white robes.
To the north there should be a pot of honey and clarified butter for Rudra, and there one should place Rudra, clad in red robes.
To the south there should be a pot of rain-water for Yama; and upon it one should place Yama, clad in black robes.
11-13. The son, having made a circle in the middle, and placed therein kusa-grass, facing southward, with the sacred thread over the right shoulder, should make the water-offering.
He should make water-offering, with Vaidic mantras, to Visnu, to the creator, to Siva and to Justice, perform the offering to the fire and then the eleventh-day Sraddha,
And he should next make a gift of a cow for the helping along of his forefathers: "this cow is given by me. May it please Thee, O Madhava."
12-15. His clothes, his ornaments, his conveyances,--these, which he has used,--a brass vessel filled with clarified butter, the seven grains which he liked,
Sesamum and the rest, the eight great gifts: if one does not offer these in his last days, they should be brought to his bedside and he should have them given.
16. Having washed the feet of a Brahmin he should honour him with cloths and other things, and give him cooked food, sweetmeats, flour-cakes and milk.
17-.19. Then the son should place upon the bed a golden image, and having worshiped it, give the bed as prescribed, for the sake of the dead.
"This bed is given by me to you, O Brahmin, for the sake of the departed, with the image of the departed, and the other things."
With these words it should be given to a Brahmin preceptor who has a family; so going round him he should salute him and present it.
20. By this gift of the bed, and Sraddhas of the ninth and other days, and by the rite of the dedication of a bull, the departed goes to the highest condition.
21-30. On the eleventh day the rite of the dedication of a bull should be performed as prescribed. He should not use a cow which is crippled, ill or too young, but one having well-marked characteristics.
That which has red eyes, a reddish colour, red horns, neck and hoofs, white belly and black back is suitable for a Brahmin;
A glossy and red complexion is suitable for a Ksattriya; yellow colour for a Vaisya; black is suitable for a Sudra.
One with all limbs red-brown, with tail and feet white, is called a reddish bull, and increases the satisfaction of the forefathers.
The bull whose face, legs and tail are white, and which is the colour of lac dye is called dark.
That which has a red colour, with white face and tail, and brown hoofs and horns is called dark-coloured.
That which has one colour over all its limbs and tail and hoofs is called dark-brown, and is the uplifter of the ancestors.
That which is dove-coloured and has a tilaka-mark on its forehead is called deep-brown, and is entirely beautiful in all its limbs.
That which is dark over all its body, and red in its eyes, is called very dark--of which five varieties are known.
This should by all means be dedicated, and should not be used for domestic purposes. It exists in the world on this account,--so runs an ancient saying.
31-35. One should desire for many sons, of whom one perchance may go to Gaya, or marry a virgin Gauri or dedicate a dark bull.
He alone should be considered a son who performs the dedication of a bull and the Gaya Sraddha---who does not do so verily is like unto excrement.
Any one whose ancestors are tormented in Raurava and other hells helps them all out for twenty-one generations by the dedication of a bull.
Even the forefathers who have gone to heaven desire the dedication of a bull: "which son in our lineage will perform the dedication of a bull,
"By whose dedication, all of us will go to the highest condition? Among all sacrifices, the bull-sacrifice is the certain giver of release to us."
36. Therefore, for the release of the forefathers, one should perform the bull-sacrifice. He should do everything with diligence according to the prescribed rite.
37. Having cast the positions of the planets and worshipped them with their respective mantras, the ailing man should make the fire-offering, according to the Sastras, and worship a bull.
38-42. Having brought together a young bull and cow, he should bind them together with a marriage string in accordance with marriage rites, and then tether them to a post;
And should bathe the bull and young cow with the water from the pot of Rudra, and, having worshipped them with fragrances and garlands, walk round them.
He should [mark] the right side with the trident of Siva and the, left side with a discus. Having released the bull, the son, with hands folded together, should recite this mantra:--
"Thou art Justice in the form of a bull. Thou wert formerly created by Brahma. On account of your being released, help over this ocean of existence!"
Having thus bowed to it, with this mantra, he should release the bull and the young cow. "I shall always be the grantor of boons to you, and will give release to the departed."
43. Therefore this should be done. Its fruit comes even during life. The man who has no son, doing it himself, goes easily to the highest condition.
44-45. In the month of Kartika and in other auspicious months, when the sun is going north, in the bright fortnight, or the dark on the twelfth and following days,
In the two eclipses, at a sacred bathing place, at the equinoctial and solstitial points, one should perform the dedication of a bull.
46-49. At the hour when the sun enters an auspicious constellation, and in a pure place, a Brahmin who knows the rites and has the auspicious signs should be invited.
By recitation, by fire-offerings, likewise by gifts, the purification of the body should be done. As in the former case, all the rites should be done; such as the fire-offering and the rest;
And having placed a Salagrama one should do the Vaisnava Sraddha, and then perform the Sraddha for himself and give gifts to the twice-born.
He who does this, O Bird, whether having a son or not, by the performance of the dedication of a bull obtains the fruit of all his desires.
50. That condition which is obtained by the performance of the release of a bull, is not reached by oblations to the fire and other sacrifices, nor by manifold gifts.
51-53. The sins which are committed in infancy, in childhood, in youth, in manhood and in old age are destroyed, without doubt, by the dedication of a bull.
The betrayer of friends, the ungrateful, the drinker of intoxicants, he who goes with his teacher's wife, the slayer of a Brahmin, the stealer of gold are all absolved by the dedication of a bull.
Therefore should one perform the bull sacrifice with all diligence, O Tarkaya; there is no merit in all the three worlds equal to that from the dedication of a bull.
54. If a woman, having a husband and a son, predeceases both, the dedication of a bull should not be performed,--one should present a milk-giving cow.
55-56. He who burdens a bull on the shoulder or on the back, falls into a dreadful hell, O bird! until the coming of the deluge.
The man who cruelly strikes a bull with his fists or with sticks, suffers the torments of Yama until the end of the age.
57-59. Having thus carried out the dedication of a bull, one should perform the sixteen Sraddhas. I will tell you what should be done prior to sapindikarana ceremony.
That at the place of death; at the threshold; half-way on the road; at the funeral pyre; in the hand of the corpse; and at the collection of the bones;--these six, and the ten pindas given in the ten days:--
These first sixteen are called impure. And next I will tell you about the second, the middle, sixteen:--
30-64. One should offer the first rice-ball to Visnu, the second to the blessed Siva; one should present the third to the retinue of Yama.
The fourth to king Soma, the fifth to the bearer of oblations to the Shining Ones, and the sixth to the bearer of oblations to the forefather; the seventh one should present to Death;
The eighth one should give to Rudra, the ninth to Puruna, the tenth to the departed, and the eleventh reverently to Visnu;
The twelfth one should give to Brahma, the thirteenth to Visnu, the fourteenth to Siva, the fifteenth to Yama;
The sixteenth rice-ball, O bird, one should give to Puruna: These are called the middle sixteen by men who know the truth.
65-67, One should give rice-balls in each one of the twelve months, on the fortnight, the third fortnight, before the six months, and also before the year,--
This is the last sixteen, I have declared to you. Having had food cooked, O Tarkaya.
The forty-eight Sraddhas destroy the condition of the ghost-life. He for whom this series is performed becomes a member of the assembly of the forefathers.
68-69. The three sixteens should be performed so that the departed may join the assembly of the forefathers; if deprived of Sraddhas the ghost remains as preta always.
If the performance of the three sixteens of Sraddhas is not carried out, either by himself or another, then he certainly does not join them.
70-72. Therefore the three sixteens should be performed by the son, as prescribed, or if the wife does them for the husband there is uninterrupted prosperity.
She who does the funeral ceremonies on the death of her husband, and the annual and the fortnightly is called by me, "the Faithful."
This faithful wife lives for the good of her husband: the life is fruitful of her who worships her dead lord.
73-78. Also, for any one who, owing to carelessness, is killed by fire, or by water, one should perform the sacrament and other rites as prescribed.
If he is killed through recklessness or willfully, or by a serpent, then me should worship a serpent on the fifth day of each fortnight.
One should form a picture of a hooded serpent upon the ground with rice powder, and worship with white sweet-smelling flowers and sandalpaste.
One should offer a serpent incenses and lights, much strew rice and sesamum, and should dedicate uncooked rice-flour, eatables and milk.
One should offer a serpent made of gold, according to his means, and a cow, to a twice-born. Then one should, with hands together "may the King of Serpents be pleased;"
And should further perform for them the rite Narayana-bali, by which they are absolved of all sins and obtain residence in heaven,
79. Thus, having done all the rites, one should give every day a jar with food and water until the end of the year, or rice-balls with water regularly.
80. Having done this on the eleventh day he should then offer the rice-balls for all the ancestors, and when free from pollution he should have made a gift of a bed and other gifts.
Chapter Thirteen
An Account of the Ceremony for all the Ancestors
1. Garuda said: Tell pre, O Lord, about the method of [performing] the Sapinda rite. the removal of pollution, and the gift of accessories.
2. The Blessed Lord said: Listen, O Tarkaya, and I will explain to you the entire Sapinda rite, by which the condition of preta is left behind and the soul enters the class of the pit?is.
3-5. Those whose pindas have not been mixed together with the ancestors called Siva and the rest, are not uplifted by the various gifts made by the sons.
If the son is always impure, they are never purified; without the Sapinda rite the impurity does not depart.
Therefore the Sapinda, at the end of the pollution period, should be performed by the son. I will tell you about the ending of pollution to be observed by all.
6-9. A Brahmin becomes pure in ten days, a Ksattriya in twelve days; a Vaisya in fifteen days, a Sudra in a month.
The Sapinda relatives are purified from the death pollution in ten days; the Sakulya relatives in three nights, and the gotrajas are purified merely by bathing.
Those who are related within the fourth degree to the deceased are purified in ten nights, those in the fifth degree, in six nights; the sixth, four days; the seventh, three days;
The eighth, a single day; the ninth, a quarter of a day; the tenth, merely till bathing;--so long lasts the pollution of death and birth [according to the distance of degrees from the deceased].
10-11. If a person dies in a foreign land and one hears of his death, then the impurity lasts for the remaining portion of ten days on which he hears the news;
If after the lapse of ten days, he is polluted for three nights. If after a year, he becomes pure even by bathing.
12. If a second pollution comes daring that from the first death, then the purification from the first pollution includes that from the second.
13. If a boy who has not yet cut his teeth dies, purification is immediate; before tonsure, one night, it is said; before the investiture with the thread, three nights; and afterwards, ten nights.
14-16. If a girl dies between birth and tonsure, purification is immediate, in all the castes alike;
Up to betrothal a single day, and from that to old age three nights are authoritative;
If after the betrothal ceremony three days for both families, it should be understood; if after marriage, only the husband's family.
17-18. If the embryo dies before sixth month; in as many days the embryo lived months, purity is regained.
After this the women are polluted, according to the caste. If the embryo dies, purification of the Sapinda relatives is immediate.
19. During the Kali Age--it is authoritatively declared in the Sastras--ten days' purification for all the castes, after births and deaths.
20-22. Blessing the worship of the Shining Ones, reception of guests, salutation, lying on a bed, and touching others should not he done during the death pollution.
Sandhya prayers, giving, reciting, fire-offering, religious study, offering to the forefathers, feeding of Brahmins and the observance of vows should not be done during the death pollution.
He who during pollution performs the daily, the occasional and the specially desired ceremonies--of him the regular and other ceremonies already done are lost.
23. For one observing vows, engaged in mantras or in fire-offerings, or a twice-born intent upon Brahman, an ascetic or a king there is verily no pollution.
24-26. Food prepared before marriage festivals and sacrifices, and before the pollution by birth or death, can be eaten; so Manu declared.
Whoever, during pollution, accepts through ignorance, suffers no evil, but the giver even though it be to a mendicant that he gives, suffers evil.
Whoever, hiding his pollution, gives food to a twice-born, and the Brahmin who knowing it, accepts it,--are both subjected to suffering.
27. Therefore, for the purifying from pollution, one should perform the Sapinda ceremony for the father, who then goes to the world of the forefathers to join the multitudes of forefathers.
28-30. The truth-knowing sages hare declared that the Sapinda ceremony should be on the twelfth day, the third fortnight, the sixth month or at the end of the year.
But I say, O Tarkaya, following the scriptural ordinances, that for the four castes the Sapinda should be on the twelfth day.
The twelfth day is preferable because of the endless variety of conditions in the Kali Age, and because of the shortened life of men, and the impermanence of the body.
31-33. If a Brahmin house-holder dies, then investiture with the sacred thread, the fulfilment of vows, marriage and other ceremonies should not be done,
Until the Sapinda has been performed the mendicant should not accept alms; and guest-offerings should not be accepted. The daily and the occasional ceremonies should be discontinued.
By the omission of rites sinfulness arises; therefore one should perform the Sapinda ceremony on the twelfth day, whether he be without fire or with fire.
34. The fruit which accrues from visiting all the sacred bathing-places; the fruit which accrues from performing all sacrifices: that fruit is obtained by doing the Sapinda ceremony on the twelfth day.
35. Hence, having bathed, and having cleaned with cow-dung the place of death, the son should perform the Sapinda ceremony, as laid down in the scriptures.
36-30. Then he should worship the world-deities with foot-water, oblations, and achamana. Next, having given rice-balls to other departed ones, he should sip water.
He should offer three rice-balls in order to his grandfather and others, in the forms of Vasu, Rudra and Arka, and the fourth rice-ball to the dead.
He should worship with sandal-paste, leaves of the holy basil, incenses, lamps, agreeable fools, mouth-scents, good cloths and presents.
Having divided the rice-ball for the departed into three parts with a thin bar of gold, he should mix them severally with the three rice-balls given to the grand father and the others.
40. It is my decision, O Tarkaya, that the Sapinda ought to be done; the mother's with the grandmother's and the father's with the grandfather's.
41-43. If the father dies while the grandfather still lives, three rice balls should be offered to the great grandfather and his predecessors.
The father's rice-ball, divided into three parts should be mixed with their rice-balls. If the mother dies before the grandmother--
Then he should perform the mother's Sraddha in the same way as the fathers; or should mix the rice-ball with both mine and great Laksmi's.
44. The husband should perform the Sapinda ceremony for his, wife, if she has no son; he should do the Sapinda for her along with the mother-in-law and others.
v45. "The Sapinda rite for women should be done with that for the husband, his father and grandfather"--that, O Tarkaya, is not my opinion; because the wife being already half the body of her husband requires no Sapinda ceremony with regard to her husband.
46. If, O Kasyapa! husband and wife ascend the same funeral pyre, then, having put grasses between them, he should perform it with that of the mother-in-law and father-in-law.
47. Only one son should perform the rites; first the offering of a rice-ball and other things for the father, and after that, having bathed again, the rite for the mother.
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49-51. Having done the Sapinda, O Tarkaya, he should make the offering of water to the forefathers. He should utter "Let there be Swadha," along with Vaidic mantras.
Afterwards he should always have a guest fed until he says "hanta." By this the forefathers, the sages, the Shining Ones and the Danavas are pleased.
As much as a mouthful is called "alms," four mouthfuls is "abundance," and four abundances is called "hantakara."
52-53. During the Sapinda he should worship the feet of a twice-born with sandal-paste and coloured rice, and make to him a gift, for his continued satisfaction.
He should have maintenance for a year, clarified butter, food, gold, silver, a good cow, a horse, an elephant, a chariot and a plot of ground given to a preceptor.
54. Then he should worship with mantras--after saying "Hail to thee"--the planets, Devi, and Viniyakam, with saffron, coloured rice and eatables.
55. The preceptor should then, with mantras, sprinkle water, and having bound a thread upon the hand, should present the coloured rice also consecrated with mantras.
50-57. Then he should have Brahmins fed with various pleasant sweetened foods, and he should give them presents, and twelve pots with water and food.
After the feeding of the twice-born, water, a weapon, scales, and a rod should be touched severally by the castes, who are respectively thus purified.
58. The Sapinda ceremony having been thus performed, the cloths worn during the rite should be cast off; and white cloths having been donned, the gift of a bed should he made.
59-64. All the Devas, headed by Indra, extol the gift of a bed. Therefore a bed should be given, during life or else after death.
Made of the choicest wood, delightful, painted in beautiful colours, strong, canopied with silken cloth, ornamented with gold leaves,
Having beautiful pillows stuffed with swans' down, together with a coverlet made fragrant with the scent of flowers,
Well-bound with bright bands, broad and pleasant: such a bed as this being made, it should be placed on the ground covered with cloth.
An umbrella, a row of silver lamps, an oxtail fan, a seat, a vessel, a water-pot, a mirror, and a canopy of five colours,
And all the other accompaniments of the bed he should place round it, in their proper places.
65-66. On it he should have placed a golden Hari, together with Laksmi, with all the ornaments, weapons and clothes.
And, in the case of women, having placed them on the bed, he should have the red dye, saffron, clothes, ornaments, and all the other necessary things.
67-68. Then a Brahmin, with his wife adorned with fragrances and flowers, with ear and finger ornaments and golden necklaces,
Wearing a turban and an upper cloth and jacket, should be seated by him on the comfortable bed, in front of Laksmi and Narayana.
69-71. He should worship Hari and Laksmi with saffron and flower-garlands, and adore the Guardians of the World, the Planetary Spirits and Vinayaka.
Facing north, and holding flowers in his palms, he should pronounce this mantra, standing in front of the Brahmin:
"Just as, O Krishna, your bed is the ocean full of milk, may this likewise be not empty in my future births."
72-74. Thus he should place the handsful of flowers before the Brahmin and the image of Hari, and then the bed-gift with its accompaniments, according to the rite.
He should give it to him who observes vows, is a teacher, and tells about Brahmin, and say, "O Brahmin, receive these. How seldom does any one so give!"
He should rock the twice-born and Laksmi and Hari, seated on the bed, and then, having walked round and bowed, give them leave.
75. If he is rich he should give a very beautiful house, furnished with all the necessaries, so that he may sleep happily on the bed,
76. If a living man makes with his own hand the gift of a bed, there should be performed, while he is still living, on full moon day the dedication of a bull.
77. This bed should be given to one only, and never to several. Divided or sold it drags down the giver.
78. Having given a bed to a deserving person, he may obtain the fruit of his desires. The father, and the son giving it, rejoices here and hereafter.
79-80. At the celestial house of Indra, and at the abode of Yama, he will arrive without doubt through the potency of the gift of a bed.
He will reside there free from trouble, seated in the best of chariots, waited upon by numbers of celestial damsels, until the coming of the deluge.
81. The merit from all the sacred bathing places, and on all the days of the changes of the moon: even superior to these is the merit arising from the gift of a bed.
82-86. Having this made the gift of a bed, the son should have Padadana given. Listen to my words, and I will tell you the method of it.
An umbrella, shoes, clothes, a signet ring, a water-pot, a seat, a set of five vessels--are called the seven kinds of padas.
This pada becomes complete with a staff, a copper vessel, uncooked rice, foods, valuables, and sacred threads.
Having, according to his means, obtained these thirteen padas he should give, them to thirteen Brahmins on the twelfth day.
By this padadana the righteous go to a good condition, and this padadana gives happiness to those who have gone on the way of Yama.
87-93. There is there intense heat, by which the man is scorched, but the gift of an umbrella makes pleasant shade above his head;
And on the path in the world of Yama, full of great thorns, those who gave shoes go riding horses.
The miseries of cold and heat and wind are dreadful there, O Bird, but by the power of the gift of clothes he goes happily along the way.
The messengers of Yama, very terrible, fierce and brown-black, do not trouble on the road him who made the gift of a signet ring.
It is enveloped in great heat, is windless and without water; through the gift of a water pot he, when thirsty, drinks water.
Who, for the dead, gives a water-vessel made of copper, certainly enjoys the fruit which is obtained by thousands of gifts of wells.
Through properly giving to a twice-born a seat and a vessel, leisurely going on the path he comfortably enjoys his provisions,
94-95. Having thus given, on the day of the Sapinda ceremony, this gift, as prescribed, he should have many Brahmins fed, also chandalas and other outcasts.
Then, after the Sapinda and before the annual ceremony, a water-pot with rice-balls should be given every month.
911. There is no re-doing of what is done excepting the rites for the departed, O Bird; but, for the sake of the departed it may be done again, as a means of unfading satisfaction.
97-99. Now I shall tell you the rules concerning the monthly, the annual and the fortnightly ceremonies, and of dying on lunar days.
If one dies at the full moon his rites fall on the fourth day. If one dies on the fourth day his rites fall on the ninth.
If one dies on the ninth day, his day is the fourteenth. In these cases one should perform the fortnightly Sraddha on the twentieth day.
100-105. When in one month [Ksayamasa] two sankrantis occur, in the irregular month, the month being double, the Sraddha is not performed.
When there are two months in one month, of those two, the two fortnights and the thirty days are the same [both must be performed.] For the first half day take the former [the dark]; for the second half, the latter. Thus are understood by the wise the two months which are in the irregular month.
The Sapinda ceremony, O bird, should be done when there is no sankranta; similarly the monthly and the first annual Sraddhas.
If there is an additional month in the middle of a year, then in the thirteenth month the annual ceremony for the departed occurs.
When there is no sankranta, rice-balls are not used; when there is sankranta, rice-balls are proper. Thus the annual Sraddha should be done in both months.
106. Thus, at the end of the first year one should perform the annual Sraddha, and in that, in addition, the twice-born should be fed.
107-110. After a year one should always offer three rice-balls at the Sraddha. The ceremony for one only should not be done; by it one becomes the destroyer of his forefathers.
The Sraddha at a sacred bathing-place, the Sraddha at Gaya, the Gajachchhayam, for the fathers--these he should not do during the year, nor at eclipses, nor on yuga days.
If the son performs the Sraddha at Gaya, O Lord of Birds, it should be done after a year, with devotion to the forefathers.
The forefathers are freed from the ocean of existence by the Sraddha at Gaya and, by favour of the Visnu, they go to the supreme state.
111-113. He should worship the feet of Visnu with the shoots of the holy basil, and in proper order offer rice-balls round them.
He who offers, on the head of Gaya, a rice-ball of the size of even a sami leaf helps over seven clans and one hundred and one fatuities.
He who, delighting the family, having gone to Gaya, performs the Sraddha and gives satisfaction to the forefathers, his life is fruitful.
111-115. O Lord of birds, the forefathers hear a song sung by the Holy Ones in Kalapa, the garden of Iksvaku, the son of Manu:--
"Are there none in your family, treading the good path, who, having gone to Gaya, will offer us rice-balls, with devotion?"
116-119. The son who thus performs the rites for the other world, O Tarkshya, is happy and becomes liberated, like the son of Kausika.
The seven sons of Bharadwaja, having experienced a series of births, were liberated by the favour of the forefathers, O Tarkshya, although they killed a cow.
The seven hunters in the country of Dasarnas; the deer on the mountain of Kalinjira; the Chakravaka birds in Saradvipa: and the swans in the Manasa lake
Were born as Brahmins learned in the Vedas, on the field of the Kurus, and all these sons of the twice-born attained liberation through devotion to the forefathers.
120. Therefore a man should make every effort in devotion to the forefathers, for by devotion to the forefathers he becomes happy either in this or the other world.
121. Thus I have told you, O Tarkaya, all the ceremonies, concerning the deceased, giving merit to and satisfying the desires of the son, and giving liberation to the forefathers.
122. Any man who is poor, but hears this account, even he, absolved from sins, obtains the fruit of gifts.
123-126. He who performs, according to the rite, the Sraddha offerings described by me, and also hears the Garuda Purana,--listen to the fruit for him:--
The father gives good sons; the grandfather, wealth of cows and his great-grandfather becomes the giver of riches.
The great-great-grandfather gives foods in abundance: all these, gratified by the Sraddha, granting the son's desires,
Go on the way of righteousness to the mansion of the King of Justice, and there they remain, highly respected, in the assembly of Righteousness.
127. Suta said: Having heard the result of the after-death gifts and their mighty greatness, thus declared by the Blessed Visnu, Garuda went into raptures.
