Garuda Purana

✍ Scribed by B.K. Chaturvedi

• Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Garuda Purana is one of the most sacred Mahapuranas for the devout Hindus. It gains importance because of a single factor: It is the only Purana which gives a detailed description of the, postmortem conditions and rituals as believed by this faith. However, it is a belief as spread by the dogmatic priestly class.
The fact is that the Garuda Purana contains many more details other than these. It reveals the consequences of an action in a very graphic and logical way. While most of the puranas tell one what to do, it also tells us what one should not do.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction to the Garuda Purana

1. Departure of The Soul From The Body
2. The Vaitarani River
3. The Tortures Suffered
4. The Sins
5. The Righteous Norms of Living
6. The Consequences of the Sins
7. The Ghosts
8. The Righteous Conduct
9. The Dashgaatra and Other Ceremonies
10. The Ekadashah and The Sootaka
11. The Sampeedan Ceremony
12. The Realm of Yama
13. The Rebirth Procedure
14. The Ways to Salvation
15. The Diseases And Their Root Causes
16. Secrets of Pure Devotion
17. An Interlude: The Allied Details and Stories
18. Ancestors and Their Shraddha
19. Epilogue
20. Thousand Names of Lord Vishnu