Garuda Purana

Ernest Wood and S.V. Subrahmanyam, 1911. Public domain.

The Garuda Purana Saroddhara, the Hindu book of the dead, translated by Ernest Wood and S.V. Subrahmanyam and published at Allahabad in 1911. Public domain. This is the extracted essence read at funerals, not the entire Purana. A line marked 3–5 is one paragraph covering those verses. Verses the 1911 book does not quote are not invented here.

Chapters

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