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The Garuda Purana
Vyasa (attributed) · Hinduism · c. 9th-11th century CE
Translated by Ernest Wood & S.V. Subrahmanyam (1911)
17 chapters
The Hindu sacred text on death, the afterlife, and the soul's journey — sixteen chapters on the realms of Yama, the rites for the dying, the path the departed soul takes, and the law of liberation.
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Contents
- 1Introduction
- 2Chapter I. An Account of the Miseries of the Sinful in this World and the Other
- 3Chapter II. An Account of The Way of Yama
- 4Chapter III. An Account of the Torments of Yama
- 5Chapter IV. An Account of the Kinds of Sins which lead to Hell
- 6Chapter V. An Account of the Signs of Sins
- 7Chapter VI. The Miseries of Birth of the Sinful
- 8Chapter VII. Babhruvāhana's Sacrament for the Departed One
- 9Chapter VIII. An Account of the Gifts for the Dying
- 10Chapter IX. An Account of the Rites for the Dying
- 11Chapter X. The Collecting of the Bones from the Fire
- 12Chapter XI. An Account of the Ten-Days' Ceremonies
- 13Chapter XII. An Account of the Eleventh-day Rite
- 14Chapter XIII. An Account of the Ceremony for all the Ancestors
- 15Chapter XIV. An Account of the City of the King of Justice
- 16Chapter XV. An Account of the Coming to Birth of People who have done Good
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