Garuda Purana

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Garuda Purana is a major Vaishnava Hindu scripture that details cosmology, ethics, rituals, and especially the soul’s journey after death and the realms of Yama.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindu scripture
Purana
Vaishnava text
associatedWithDeity Garuda
Vishnu
Yama
attributedTo Vyasa
surface form: Vyasa (traditional attribution)
contains dialogue between Vishnu and Garuda
sections on astrology
sections on charity and gifts (dana)
sections on devotion (bhakti)
sections on dharma
sections on iconography
sections on medicine (Ayurveda)
sections on omens
sections on temple construction
sections on yoga
describes afterlife
cosmology
ethics
funerary rites
Naraka
surface form: hells (Narakas)

karmic consequences
merit and demerit (punya and papa)
realms of Yama
rituals
soul’s journey after death
focusesOn cremation rituals
post-death observances
rites for the dead (shraddha)
genre Smriti text
hasSection Preta-khanda
Purva-khanda
Uttara-khanda
influenced Hindu beliefs about afterlife
Hindu funeral practices
language Sanskrit
narrativeFrame Vishnu instructing Garuda
numberInMahapuranas one of the eighteen Mahapuranas
partOf Mahapuranas
primaryTheme Vaishnavism
regionOfInfluence Indian subcontinent
religiousCategory Hindu funerary text
religiousFunction guidance for death rituals
guidance for righteous living
instruction on liberation (moksha)
religiousTradition Hinduism
script Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari
timePeriodOfComposition first millennium CE (approximate)

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Yama textMention Garuda Purana
Garuda associatedScripture Garuda Purana
Hindu scriptures hasPart Garuda Purana
Sapta Puri mentionedIn Garuda Purana
Naraka describedIn Garuda Purana