Purva Khanda: Achara Kanda

Chapter 41: Mantras for marriage, protection and harming foes

इति श्रीगारुडे महापुराणे पूर्वखण्डे प्रथमांशाख्ये आचारकाण्डे वश्यादिसाधिकमन्त्रनिरूपणं नामैकचत्वारिंशोऽध्यायः ॥

3 verses · 41 of 241

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Mantras for marriage, protection and harming foes

Vasudeva gives three short mantras of the practical, tantric kind. The first invokes Vishvavasu, the Gandharva who rules over maidens, and its japa is said to win a bride. The second calls on Kalaratri, four-armed, three-eyed, with hair standing upright, the consort of the bear-eared one; the text says it brings death to a named enemy whose time has come, and needs no special tithi, nakshatra or fast. It is recited at dusk by one in anger, hands smeared with blood, and an unbaked pot is broken. The third mantra, addressed to the power that stuns and bewilders, asks for protection of the reciter from every fear and calamity. The chapter is only three verses long and closes abruptly.

वासुदेव उवाच

41.1

ॐ विश्वावसुर्नाम गन्धर्वः कन्यानामधिपतिर्लभामि ते कन्यां समुत्पाद्य तस्मै विश्ववासवे स्वाहा ।
स्त्रीलाभो मन्त्रजाप्याच्च कालरात्रिं वदाम्यहम्

oṃ viśvāvasurnāma gandharvaḥ kanyānāmadhipatirlabhāmi te kanyāṃ samutpādya tasmai viśvavāsave svāhā |
strīlābho mantrajāpyācca kālarātriṃ vadāmyaham

41.2

ॐ नमो भगवति ऋक्षकर्णि चतुर्भुजे ऊर्द्ध्वकेशि त्रिनयने कालरात्रि मानुषाणां वसारुधिरभोजने अमुकस्य प्राप्तकालस्य मृत्युप्रदे हुं फट् हनहन दहदह मांसरुधिरं पचपच ऋक्षपत्नि स्वाहा । न तिथिर्न च नक्षत्रं नोपवासो विधीयते

oṃ namo bhagavati ṛkṣakarṇi caturbhuje ūrddhvakeśi trinayane kālarātri mānuṣāṇāṃ vasārudhirabhojane amukasya prāptakālasya mṛtyuprade huṃ phaṭ hanahana dahadaha māṃsarudhiraṃ pacapaca ṛkṣapatni svāhā | na tithirna ca nakṣatraṃ nopavāso vidhīyate

41.3

क्रुद्धो रक्तेन संमार्ज्य करौ ताभ्यां प्रगृह्य च ।
प्रदोषे संजपेल्लिङ्गमामपात्रं च मारयेत् ।
ॐ नमः सर्वतोयन्त्राण्येतद्यथा जम्भनि मोहनि सर्वशत्रुविदारिणि रक्षरक्ष माममुकं सर्वभयोपद्रवेभ्यः स्वाहा ।
शुक्रे नष्टे महादेव वक्ष्येऽहं द्विजपादिह

kruddho raktena saṃmārjya karau tābhyāṃ pragṛhya ca |
pradoṣe saṃjapelliṅgamāmapātraṃ ca mārayet |
oṃ namaḥ sarvatoyantrāṇyetadyathā jambhani mohani sarvaśatruvidāriṇi rakṣarakṣa māmamukaṃ sarvabhayopadravebhyaḥ svāhā |
śukre naṣṭe mahādeva vakṣye'haṃ dvijapādiha

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