Narratives from the Garuḍa Purāṇa

King Babhruvahaṇa meets a hundred pretas at a tīrtha and frees them all with the Nārāyaṇa Bali rite, as Bhagavān Vishṇu instructs.

How the body of the asura Balāsura gave rise to diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other gems, as told in the Garuḍa Mahā Purāṇa.

Two wives of Kṛshṇa, Bhadrā and Mitravindā, lived lives of devotion to Vishṇu in an earlier birth and then married Kṛshṇa.

The Garuḍa Mahā Purāṇa tells how Bhagavān Vishṇu slew the asura Gaya, and how his body became the holy kshetra of Gayā.

The longest of the wife-accounts in the Brahma Khaṇḍa: Jāmbāvatī's tapas at Veṅkaṭādri and her marriage to Kṛshṇa.

Kālindī, daughter of Sūrya, did tapas on the Yamunā to win Bhagavān Vishṇu, and Bhagavān Kṛshṇa came and married her.

Lakshaṇā, born with every auspicious sign, chose Bhagavān Kṛshṇa as her husband and in her next birth he won her at a fish-target svayaṃvara.

Nīlā, also called Nāgnajitī, did tapas at Śeshācala to win Bhagavān Vishṇu and was later married to Bhagavān Kṛshṇa after the contest of the seven bulls.

The Pitṛ-devatās urge the unmarried brahmarshi Ruci to become a householder, and he later marries Mālinī and fathers Raucya Manu.

The brāhmaṇa Saṃtaptaka meets five pretas at a cremation ground and frees them with śrāddha and the name of Bhagavān Vishṇu.

The hunter-king Sundarasena kept Śivarātri without knowing it and was taken to Kailāsa, as Parameśvara tells Pārvatī.

King Vīravāhana meets suffering pretas at Pushkara and learns that Nārada, in a past life, failed in his duty to their family.

A merchant named Viśāla frees a preta, his ancestors and himself through piṇḍa-dāna at Gayāśīrsha.