Garga
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Gārgya
in the texts
Parāśara Smṛti
Sage listed among authors of dharma texts.
Those of Garga, Gautama, and also those remembered from Uśanas;
Vīramitrodaya
Sage-astrologer authority (Garga/Gārgya) cited repeatedly for verses on ritual timing, Jātakarma, and regional variation in planetary invisibility.
For this very reason, the reading in the verse of Gārgya is "one should avoid a journey to a sacred ford.
Because for them, by the verse of Gārgya, "When the sun is in Leo, in the Puṣya *nakṣatra*, in the forenoon, they should go outside.
> The naming, the first feeding with rice, the tonsure, marriage, and the sacred thread ceremony, / > the going out, and the Jātakarma, and the optional release of a bull, // > when Jupiter and Venus have set, are in their juvenility or old age, and in an intercalary month, / > one should not perform the commencement of a vow or the first performance.