Skandapurana 6.3.113

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adhyāya 113

6.3.113.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra koṭitīrthamanuttamam .
ṛṣikoṭirgatā tatra parāṃ siddhimupāgatā .. 113.1 ..

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said:
“Then, O best of kings, one should go to the unsurpassed Koṭitīrtha, / where ten million seers went and attained supreme perfection.

6.3.113.2

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā bhojayedbrāhmaṇāñchuciḥ .
ekasminbhojite vipre koṭirbhavati bhojitā .. 113.2 ..

Whoever, purified, bathes in that sacred ford and feeds brahmins— / when a single brahmin is fed, ten million are fed.

6.3.113.3

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayetpitṛdevatāḥ .
pūjite tu mahādeve vājapeyaphalaṃ labhet .. 113.3 ..

Whoever bathes in that sacred ford and worships the ancestors and deities, / when Mahādeva is worshipped, obtains the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice.

6.3.113.3_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe koṭitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma trayodaśādhikaśātatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the one hundred and thirteenth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Koṭitīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.