Garuda Purana

पुरा मां गरुडः पक्षी तपसाराधयद्भुवि 2.

Long ago, Garuda the bird worshipped me on earth through austerity.

मम माता च विनता नागैर्दासीकृता हरे 2.

And my mother Vinata, O Hari, was made a slave by the serpents.

दास्याद्विमोक्षयिष्यामि यथाहं वाहनस्तव 2.

I will free her from slavery, just as I have become your vehicle.

पुराणसंहिताकर्त्ता यथाऽहं स्यां तथा कुरुं विष्णुरुवाच 2.

Just as I am the composer of the Purana collections, so you should act—thus spoke Vishnu.

नागदास्यान्मातरं त्वं विनतां मोक्षयिष्यसि 2.

You will free your mother Vinata from the slavery of the serpents.

महाबलो वाहनस्त्वं भविष्यसि विषार्दनः 2.

You will become a mighty being, a vehicle, and the destroyer of poison.

यदुक्तं मत्स्वरूपं च तव चाविर्भविष्यति 2.

Whatever form of mine has been described will also manifest for you.

यथाहं देवदेवानां श्रीः ख्यातो विनतासुत 2.

Just as I am renowned as the fortune of the gods, O son of Vinata—

यथाहं कीर्त्तनीयोऽथ तथा त्वं गरुडात्मना 2.

Just as I am to be praised, so too are you, in your Garuda form.

इत्युक्तो गरुडो रुद्र ! कश्यपायाह पृच्छते 2.

Thus addressed, Garuda spoke to Kashyapa, O Rudra, as he inquired.

स्वयं चान्यमना भूत्वा विद्ययान्यान्य जीवयत् गरुडोक्तं गारुडं हि श्रृणु रुद्र ! मदात्मकम् ।। 2.

And, becoming absorbed in another thought, he revived another with knowledge; hear, O Rudra, the Garuda teaching spoken by Garuda himself, which is of my own essence.

इति रुद्राब्जजौ विष्णोः शुश्राव ब्रह्मणो मुनिः 3.

Thus, the sage heard from Brahma about the lotus-born Rudra and Vishnu.

मुनीनां श्रृण्वतां मध्ये सर्गाद्यं देवपूजनम् 3.

Among the sages listening, the worship of the gods at the beginning of creation was described.

वर्णाश्रमादिधर्माश्च दानराज्यादिधर्मकाः 3.

The duties of varna and ashrama, as well as those concerning charity and kingship, were explained.

अंगानि प्रलयो धर्मकामार्थज्ञानमुत्तमम् 3.

The limbs, dissolution, and the supreme knowledge of dharma, desire, and wealth were set forth.

पुराणे गारुडे सर्वं गरुडो भगवानथ 3.

In the Garuda Purana, all this was declared by the blessed Garuda.

भुत्वा हरेर्वाहनं च सर्गादीनां च कारणम् 3.

Having become the vehicle of Hari and the cause of creation and its sequences,

चक्रे क्षुधा हृतं यस्य ब्रह्माण्डमुदरे हरेः 3.

He, whose hunger seized the cosmic egg within the belly of Hari, performed these acts.

कश्यपो गारुडाद्वृक्षं दग्धं चाजीवयद्यतः 3.

Kashyapa revived a tree burned by Garuda, through the power of Garuda's teaching.

तच्छ्रीमद्रारुडं पुण्यं सर्वदं पठतस्तव 3.

That blessed and auspicious Garuda teaching, which grants everything, is to be recited by you.

सर्गश्च प्रतिसर्गश्च वंशो मन्वन्तराणि च 4.

Creation, dissolution, genealogies, and the ages of Manu are described.

श्रृणु रुद्र प्रवक्ष्यामि सर्गादीन्पापनाशनान् 4.

Hear, O Rudra, I shall declare the creation and other subjects that destroy sin.

नरनारायणो देवो वासुदेवो निरंजनः 4.

The divine Nara-Narayana, Vasudeva, and the stainless one are spoken of.

तदेतत्सर्वमेवैतव्द्यक्ताव्यक्तस्वरूपवत् । तथा पुरुषरूपेण कालरूपेण च स्थितम् ।। 4.

All this exists in both manifest and unmanifest forms, as well as in the form of the person and in the form of time.

व्यक्तं विष्णुस्तथाऽव्यक्तं पुरुषः काल एव च 4.

The manifest is Vishnu, the unmanifest is the person, and time as well.

अनादिनिधनो धाता त्वनन्तः पुरुषोत्तमः 4.

The creator is without beginning or end, infinite, and the supreme person.

तस्माहुद्धिर्मनस्तस्मात्ततः खं पवनस्ततः 4.

From him comes intellect; from intellect, mind; then space; then wind.

अण्डो हिरण्मयो रुद्र । तस्यान्तः स्वयमेव हि 4.

The golden egg is Rudra; within it, he himself abides.

ब्रह्मा चतुर्मुखो भूत्वा रजोमात्राधिकः सदा 4.

Brahma, having four faces, always possesses predominance of rajas.