Garuda Purana, Garuḍa Purāṇa, Garuḍapurāṇa, Garudapurana: 12 definitions

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Purana and Itihasa (epic history)

Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण).—One of the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas. This is believed to be a narration to Garuḍa by Mahāviṣṇu. There are eight thousand ślokas in it. There is an opinion that only the Tārkṣyakalpa is of Viṣṇu. The theme of the Purāṇa is the birth of Garuḍa from Brahmāṇḍa. If this Purāṇa is given as a gift it should be given along with the image of a swan in gold. (Chapter 272, Agni Purāṇa).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index

Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण).—A mahāpurāṇa comprising 19000 ślokas.^*

* Bhāgavata-purāṇa XII. 7. 23: 13. 8: Viṣṇu-purāṇa IV. 6. 23.

Source: Shodhganga: Elements of Art and Architecture in the Trtiyakhanda of the Visnudharmottarapurana

Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण) refers to one of the eighteen Major Puranas according to the Matsyapurāṇa and other traditional lists of Puranic literature: a category of ancient Sanskrit texts which gives a huge contribution in the development of Indian literature.—The lists of eighteen Mahāpurāṇas (e.g., garuḍapurāṇa) and eighteen Upapurāṇas are not same everywhere, as some names are dropped in some references whereas some are included in others. It can be noticed that, except the Vāyuapurāṇa and the Śivapurāṇa, the names of the Mahāpurāṇas are similar in almost all the Purāṇas.

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

Chandas (prosody, study of Sanskrit metres)

Source: Shodhganga: a concise history of Sanskrit Chanda literature

Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण) also deals with the science of prosody in its six chapters 207-212. The chapters comprise 5, 18, 41, 7 and 9 verses respectively. The first chapter (207th) describes general introduction of metrics viz. division of metres, gaṇa, trika, guru, laghu etc. Then description of various types of mātrā metres follows. Sama, ardhasama, viṣama and technique of six pratyayas are dealt in third, fourth, fifth and sixth (209-212) chapters respectively.

The interpretation of Garuḍapurāṇa is known for its simplicity. Herein 35 numbers of mātrā metres, 104 numbers of sama, 9 of ardhasama, 12 of viṣama metres are illustrated. The verses are composed in anuṣṭup metre and the description is in the form of conversation between Sūta and Parīkṣita. The Garuḍapurāṇa gives only the description of the characteristics of metres and skips the example of concerned metres.

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Chandas (छन्दस्) refers to Sanskrit prosody and represents one of the six Vedangas (auxiliary disciplines belonging to the study of the Vedas). The science of prosody (chandas-shastra) focusses on the study of the poetic meters such as the commonly known twenty-six metres mentioned by Pingalas.

Dharmashastra (religious law)

Source: Shodhganga: The saurapurana - a critical study (dharma)

Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण) should be donated (dāna) on a śivatithi according to the Dharmaśāstra taught in the 10th century Saurapurāṇa: one of the various Upapurāṇas depicting Śaivism.—Accordingly, the donation of the various Purāṇas to various recipients on different tithis along with the merits thereof are given in the ninth chapter.—[...] Dedicating to Śiva if a person doantes the Garuḍapurāṇa on a śivatithi gets the reward of thousand vājapeya sacrifices.

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Dharmashastra (धर्मशास्त्र, dharmaśāstra) contains the instructions (shastra) regarding religious conduct of livelihood (dharma), ceremonies, jurisprudence (study of law) and more. It is categorized as smriti, an important and authoritative selection of books dealing with the Hindu lifestyle.

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Journal of the European Ayurvedic Society, Volume 4: Reviews and Notices

Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण) is the name of a work related to Ayurveda and medicine referenced by the “cikitsa bidhane tantrasastra”—a Bengali work authored by ‘Krishna Chaitanya Thakur’ in three volumes dealing with the treatments for diseases and disorders collected from Tantric and Ayurvedic texts.—Eastern India is one of the major strongholds of Tantrism in South Asia, and this region, particularly Bengal, has played and still plays a prominent role in the development of Āyurveda. It is indeed a fact that much medically relevant material is to be found in [the Garuḍapurāṇa, or other] Tantric texts. The “cikitsā bidhāne tantraśāstra” (by Kṛṣṇacaitanya Ṭhākur) contains wealth of medicines and remedies for a large variety of diseases and disorders, arranged according to the individual diseases or disorders. The material presented is culled from a variety of texts [e.g., garuḍapurāṇa], [most of which] seem to be classed as Tantric, but some are quite obviously not so, though their material may be related to that to be found in Tantric texts.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

General definition (in Hinduism)

Source: WikiPedia: Hinduism

Garuda Purana is an epic conversation between Lord Vishnu and Garuda (King of Birds), primarily emphasizing the reason and meaning of Human Life form. It contains details of life after death, funeral rites and the metaphysics of reincarnation. Many years ago, this Purana was told to the sage Kashyapa by the great bird Garuda himself. Romaharshana learnt it from my teacher Vyasadeva.

The Padma Purana categorizes Garuda Purana as a Sattva Purana (Purana which represents goodness and purity). The epic purana which is considered to be lastly edited by Veda Vyāsa, speaks of different incarnations of Lord Vishnu, geographical description, origin of the Universe, Creation, Procreation, Genealogy of Gods and the journey of a soul after death.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

1) Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—[Mackenzie Collection] 38. Paris. (D 293). L. 2525. K. 24. B. 2, 6. 8. 10. Ben. 53. Tu7b. 13. Kāṭm. 2. Rādh. 39. NW. 482. Oudh. Viii, 4. Np. Vi, 34. Viii, 20. Burnell. 188^a. Bhk. 13. H. 33. Oppert. 47. 796. 3610. 4404. 5520. 7924. Ii, 4551. 7279. 7538. 8019. 9714. 10036. Rice. 72. Garuḍapurāṇe Jvaraharastotra. Burnell. 201^b.
—Triveṇīstotra. Burnell. 201^b.
—Pañcaparvamāhātmya. Peters. 1, 116.
—Pretakalpa. Oxf. 84^a (Index). Pheh. 5. Bhr. 546. Bp. 292.
—Pretamañjarī. Oxf. 8^b.
—Praiṣādhyāya. Burnell. 188^a.
—Viṣṇudharmottara. Burnell. 188^a. Taylor. 1, 159. 303. 417.
—Viṣṇustotra. Burnell. 201^a.
—Veṅkaṭagirimāhātmya. Rice. 88.
—Śatāparādhaprāyaścitta. Burnell. 200^b.
—Śrīraṅgamāhātmya. [Mackenzie Collection] 88. Burnell. 188^a. Oppert. 5028.
—Sundarapuramāhātmya. [Mackenzie Collection] 89.

2) Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण):—Triveṇīstotra. read Burnell. 201^a.

3) Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण):—Gov. Or. Libr. Madras 22. Stein 200. 201. Garuḍapurāṇe Tulādānapaddhati. Stein 201.
—Tripiṇḍīśrāddhavidhi. Stein 90.
—Pretakalpa. Stein 201.
—Brahmakāṇḍa. Stein 201.

4) Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण):—Ulwar 783. Garuḍapurāṇe Pretamañjarī. Ulwar 801.

5) Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण):—As p. 54 (2 Mss.). Bc 16 (chapters 1-30). 318. Bd. 143 (10 Adhyāyāḥ). 144. Cs 4, 26. 27. 300 (begins in chapter 2, 30). Hz. 787. Io. 1199. 2560. Tod 3.
—Abridged Ak 128. Garuḍapurāṇe Pretakalpa. Io. 1081. 1082. L.. 199. Peters. 6, 145. Garuḍapurāṇe Śrīraṅgamāhātmya. Io. 3194. Sāroddhāra. L.. 200. 201.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Garuḍapurāṇa (गरुडपुराण):—[=garuḍa-purāṇa] [from garuḍa] n. Name of the seventeenth Purāṇa

2) [v.s. ...] cf. [Religious Thought and Life in India pp.288;293;298;301.]

3) Gāruḍapurāṇa (गारुडपुराण):—[=gāruḍa-purāṇa] [from gāruḍa] n. = gar.

[Sanskrit to German]

Garuda Purana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Garuḍapurāṇa (ಗರುಡಪುರಾಣ):—[noun] one of eighteen sacred scriptures (purāṇas) of Hindus, dealing with obsequies.

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Gāruḍapurāṇa (ಗಾರುಡಪುರಾಣ):—[noun] = ಗಾರುಡ - [garuda -] 8.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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