Skandapurana 6.3.104

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adhyāya 104

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchenmahīpālaṃ sauvarṇaśilamuttamam .
prakhyātamuttare kūle sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 104.1 ..

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O protector of the earth, one should go to the excellent Sauvarṇaśila, / famous on the northern bank, causing the destruction of all sins,

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samantācchatapātena munisaṅghaiḥ purā kṛtam .
revāyāṃ durlabhaṃ sthānaṃ saṅgamasya samīpataḥ .. 104.2 ..

created in former times by hosts of sages by falling [from heights] on all sides, / a place hard to attain on the Revā, near the confluence.

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vibhaktaṃ hastamātraṃ ca puṇyakṣetraṃ narādhipa .
suvarṇaśilake snātvā pūjayitvā maheśvaram .. 104.3 ..

It is divided and measures merely a cubit, a sacred field, O ruler of men. / Having bathed at Suvarṇaśilaka and having worshipped the Great Lord,

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natvā tu bhāskaraṃ devaṃ hotavyaṃ ca hutāśane .
bilvenājyavimiśreṇa bilvapatrairathāpi vā .. 104.4 ..

and having bowed to the sun god, an offering should be made into the fire / with bilva fruit mixed with ghee, or even with bilva leaves, [saying:]

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prīyatāṃ me jagannātho vyādhirnaśyatu me dhruvam .
dvijāya kāñcane datte yatphalaṃ tacchṛṇuṣva me .. 104.5 ..

"May the Lord of the Universe be pleased with me; may my disease surely be destroyed." / When gold is given to a twice-born, hear from me what the fruit of that is.

6.3.104.6

bahusvarṇasya yatproktaṃ yāgasya phalamuttamam .
tathāsau labhate sarvaṃ kāñcanaṃ yaḥ prayacchati .. 104.6 ..

Whatever excellent fruit is proclaimed of the sacrifice with abundant gold, / that person who offers gold obtains all of that.

6.3.104.7

tena dānena pūtātmā mṛtaḥ svargamavāpnuyāt .
rudrasyānucarastāvadyāvadindrāścaturdaśa .. 104.7 ..

Purified in soul by that gift, upon death he would attain heaven; / he is an attendant of Rudra as long as fourteen Indras [endure].

6.3.104.8

tataḥ svargāvatīrṇastu jāyate viśade kule .
dhanadhānyasamopetaḥ punaḥ smarati tajjalam .. 104.8 ..

Then, having descended from heaven, he is born in a pure family; / endowed with wealth and grain, he remembers that water again.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe suvarṇaśilātīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma caturadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the one hundred and fourth chapter, named "Description of the Māhātmya of the Suvarṇaśilā Sacred Ford," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses.