14 Facts About Garuda Purana

Garuda Purana text is known in many versions, contains 15000+ verses.

Version of Garuda Purana that survives into the modern era, states Dalal, is likely from 800 to 1000 CE with sections added in the 2nd-millennium.

Garuda Purana was likely fashioned after the Agni Purana, the other major medieval India encyclopedia that has survived.

Cosmology presented in Garuda Purana revolves around Vishnu and Lakshmi, and it is their union that created the universe.

Garuda Purana, states Madan, elaborates the repeatedly found theme in Hindu religious thought that the living body is a microcosm of the universe, governed by the same laws and made out of the same substances.

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However, the Garuda Purana includes significant sections with reverence for Shaiva, Shakti and Smarta traditions, including the Panchayatana puja of Vishnu, Shiva, Durga, Surya and Ganesha.

Garuda Purana includes chapters on the architecture and design of a temple.

Second design details presented in the Garuda Purana is for a 16 square grid, with four inner squares for the adytum.

Garuda Purana describes 14 gems, their varieties and how to test their quality.

Garuda Purana asserts that the highest and most imperative religious duty is to introspect into one's own soul, seeking self-communion.

Garuda Purana secures services from the qualified, honest and virtuous, rejects the incapable, wicked and malicious, states chapter 113.

Monier Monier-Williams wrote in 1891, that portions of verses recited at cremation funerals are perhaps based on this relatively modern section of the Garuda Purana, but added that Hindu funeral practices do not always agree with guidance in the Garuda Purana.

Three quite different versions of Pretakhanda of Garuda Purana are known, and the variation between the chapters, states Jonathan Parry, is enormous.

Available only in the Venkateswara Edition of the Garuda Purana, it has 29 chapters in the form of an interlocution between Krishna and Garuda, on the supremacy of Vishnu, the nature and form of other Gods, description of the shrine of Venkateshwara at Tirupati and other Tirthas there.