Garuda Purana

तत्र कामस्तथा क्रोधः काये पञ्चेन्द्रियाणि च । एते तार्क्ष्य समाख्याता देहे तिष्ठन्ति तस्कराः ॥ २,३१.

There, desire, anger, and the five senses, O Tārkṣya, are said to be thieves that dwell in the body.

कामः क्रोधो ह्यहङ्कारो मनस्तत्रैव नायकः । संहारकश्च कालोऽयं पुण्यपापसमन्वितः ॥ २,३१.

Desire, anger, ego, and mind are the leaders there; and time, endowed with merit and sin, is the destroyer.

जगतश्च स्वरूपन्तु निर्मितं स्वेन कर्मणा । पुनर्देहान्तरं याति सुकृतैर्दुष्कृतैर्नरः ॥ २,३१.

The true nature of the world is created by one's own actions; a person attains another body according to good or bad deeds.

पञ्चेन्द्रियसमायुक्तं सकलैर्विष्यैः सह । प्रविशेत्स नवं देहं गृहे दग्धे यथा गृही ॥ २,३१.

Endowed with the five senses and all their objects, it enters a new body, just as a householder enters a new house when the old one is burned.

शरीरे ये समासीना सम्भवेत्सर्वधातवः । षाट्कौशिको ह्ययं कायो माता पित्रोश्च धातवः ॥ २,३१.

All the bodily elements that arise in the body are indeed the sixfold sheath, and these elements come from both mother and father.

सम्भवेयुस्तथा तार्क्ष्य सर्वे वाताश्च देहिनाम् । मूत्रं पुरीषं तद्योगा ये चान्ये व्याधयस्तथा ॥ २,३१.

In the same way, O Tārkṣya, all the winds of embodied beings arise, as do urine, feces, and other diseases that result from their combination.

अस्थि शुक्रं तथा स्नायुः देहेन सह दह्यते । एष ते कथितस्तार्क्ष्य विनाशः सर्वदेहिनाम् ॥ २,३१.

Bone, semen, and sinew are burned along with the body; thus, O Tārkṣya, I have described to you the destruction of all embodied beings.

कथयामि पुनस्तेषां शरीरञ्च यथा भवेत् । एकस्तम्भं स्नायुबद्धं स्थूणाद्वयसमुद्धृतम् ॥ २,३१.

Now I will again tell you how their body is: it is a single pillar bound by sinews, raised up from two supports.

इन्द्रियैश्च समायुक्तं नवद्वारं शरीरकम् । विषयैश्च समाक्रान्तं कामक्रोधसमाकुलम् ॥ २,३१.

Endowed with senses, the body is a nine-gated structure, overwhelmed by sense objects and agitated by desire and anger.

रागद्वेषसमाकीर्णं तृष्णादुर्गसुदुस्तरम् । लोभजालसमायुक्तं पुरं पुरुषसंज्ञितम् ॥ २,३१.

Filled with attachment and aversion, hard to cross like a fortress of thirst, entangled in the net of greed, this is called the city of the person.

एतद्गुणसमायुक्तं शरीरं सर्वदेहिनाम् । तिष्ठन्ति देवताः सर्वा भुवनानि चतुर्दश ॥ २,३१.

This body, endowed with such qualities, is possessed by all embodied beings; within it dwell all the deities and the fourteen worlds.

आत्मानं ये न जानन्ति ते नराः पशवः स्मृताः । एवमेतन्मयाख्यातं शरीरं ते चतुर्विधम् ॥ २,३१.

Those men who do not know their own self are considered animals; thus I have explained to you the fourfold nature of the body.

चतुरशीतिलक्षाणि निर्मिता योनयः पुरा । उद्भिज्जाः स्वेदजाश्चैव अण्डजाश्च जरायुजाः ॥ २,३१.

Eighty-four hundred thousand wombs were created in ancient times: those born from eggs, sweat, seeds, and live birth.

एतत्ते सर्वमाख्यातं यत्पृष्टोहं त्वयानघ ॥ २,३१.

All this, O sinless one, which you have asked, I have told you.

श्रीगरुडमहापुराणम् ३२ तार्क्ष्य उवाच । कथमुत्पद्यते जन्तुर्भूतग्रामे चतुर्विधे । त्वचा रक्तं तथा मांसं मेदो मज्जास्थि जीवितम् ॥ २,३२.

Tārkṣya said: How does a living being arise among the fourfold groups of beings? Skin, blood, flesh, fat, marrow, bone, and life.

पादौ पाणी तथा गुह्यं जिह्वाकेशनखाः शिरः । सन्धिमार्गाश्च बहुशो रेखा नैकविधास्तथा ॥ २,३२.

Feet, hands, the secret organ, tongue, hair, nails, head, the many joints and pathways, and the various lines as well.

कामः क्रोधो भयं लज्जा मनो हर्षः सुखासुखम् । चित्रितं छिद्रितञ्चापि नानाजालेन वेष्टितम् ॥ २,३२.

Desire, anger, fear, shame, mind, joy, pleasure and pain, all are marked and pierced, enveloped in a web of many kinds.

इन्द्रजालमिदं मन्ये संसारेऽसारसागरे । कर्ता कोऽत्र हृषीकेश संसारे दुः खसंकुले ॥ २,३२.

I consider this to be a magic illusion in the ocean of meaningless existence; who is the doer here, O Hṛṣīkeśa, in this world full of suffering?

श्रीविष्णुरुवाच । कथयामि परं गोप्यं कोशस्यास्य विनिर्णयम् । यस्य विज्ञानमात्रेण सर्वज्ञत्वं प्रज्यते ॥ २,३२.

Śrī Viṣṇu said: I will tell you the supreme secret, the determination of this sheath, by knowing which alone omniscience is attained.

साधु पृष्टं त्वया लोके सदयं जीवकारणम् । वैनतेय शृणुष्व त्वमेकाग्रकृतमानसः ॥ २,३२.

Well have you asked, for the sake of living beings in the world, O Vainateya; listen with a mind made single-pointed.

ऋतुकाले च नारीणां वर्ज्यं दिनचतुष्टयम् । यतस्तस्मिन् ब्रह्महत्यां पुरा वृत्रसमुत्थिताम् ॥ २,३२.

In women, during their season, four days are to be avoided, for on those days the sin of Brahmin-killing, which arose long ago from Vṛtra, is present.

ब्रह्मा शक्रात्समुत्तार्य चतुर्थांशेन दत्तवान् । तावन्नालोक्यते वक्त्रं पापं यावद्वपुः स्थितम् ॥ २,३२.

Brahmā, having rescued (the soul) from Indra, gave a fourth part; the face is not seen as long as the body remains impure with sin.

प्रथमेऽहनि चाण्डाली द्वितीये ब्रह्मघातिनी । तृतीये रजकी ज्ञेया चतुर्थेऽहनि शुध्यति ॥ २,३२.

On the first day, she is considered a Chandālī; on the second, a Brahmin-killer; on the third, she is to be known as a washerwoman; on the fourth day, she becomes purified.

सप्ताहात्पितृदेवानां भवेद्योग्या कृतार्चने । सप्ताहमध्ये यो गर्भस्तत्संम्भूतिर्मलिम्लुचा ॥ २,३२.

After seven nights, a woman becomes fit to worship the ancestors and gods; if conception occurs within seven nights, the resulting birth is from a woman who is impure.

निषेकसमये पित्रोर्यादृक्चित्तविकल्पना । तादृग्गर्भसमुत्पत्तिर्जायते नात्र संशयः ॥ २,३२.

At the time of conception, whatever thoughts and intentions are present in the minds of the parents, such is the nature of the embryo that arises—of this there is no doubt.

युग्मासु पुत्त्रा जायन्ते स्त्रियोऽयुग्मासु रात्रिषु । पूर्वसप्तममुत्सृज्य तस्माद्युग्मासु संविशेत् ॥ २,३२.

Sons are born on even nights, and daughters on odd nights; therefore, after the first seven, one should approach on even nights.

षोडशर्तुर्निशाः स्त्रीणां सामान्यात्समुदाहृतः । या चतुर्दशमी रात्रिर्गर्भस्तिष्ठति तत्र चेत् ॥ २,३२.

It is declared that, in general, there are sixteen nights for women; if conception occurs on the fourteenth night, then—

गुणभाग्यनिधिः पुत्रस्तत्र जायेत धार्मिकः । सा निशा तत्र सामान्यैर्न लभ्येत खगाधिप ॥ २,३२.

—there a son is born who is a treasure of virtues and good fortune, and righteous; but, O Lord of Birds, that night is not easily obtained by ordinary means.

प्रायशः सम्भवत्यत्र गर्भस्त्वष्टाहमध्यतः । पञ्चमेऽहनि नारीणां कार्यं माधुर्यभोजनम् ॥ २,३२.

Generally, conception occurs in the middle of the eighth night; on the fifth day, women should partake of sweet foods.