Skandapurana 6.3.117

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adhyāya 117

6.3.117.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra puṇyaṃ tīrthaṃ trilocanam .
tatra tiṣṭhati deveśaḥ sarvalokanamaskṛtaḥ .. 117.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king of kings, to the holy Trilocana sacred ford; / there stands the Lord of gods, bowed to by all the worlds.

6.3.117.2

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā bhaktyārcayati śaṅkaram .
rudrasya bhavanaṃ yāti mṛto nāstyatra saṃśayaḥ .. 117.2 ..

Whoever bathes in that sacred ford and worships Śaṅkara with devotion, / upon dying goes to the abode of Rudra; there is no doubt about this.

6.3.117.3

kalpakṣaye tataḥ pūrṇe krīḍitvā ca ihāgataḥ .
āviyogena tiṣṭheta pūjyamānaḥ śataṃ samāḥ .. 117.3 ..

Then, having played until the end of the kalpa is fulfilled and returning here, / he would remain without separation, worshipped for a hundred years.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe trilocanatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptadaśottaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

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