Skandapurana 6.3.119

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adhyāya 119

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra kahloḍītīrthamuttamam .
revāyāścottare kūle sarvapāpavināśanam .. 119.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king of kings, to the excellent Kahloḍītīrtha / on the northern bank of the Revā, destroying all sins.

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hitārthaṃ sarvabhūtānāmṛṣibhiḥ sthāpitaṃ purā .
tapasā tu samuddhṛtya narmadāyāṃ mahāmbhasi .. 119.2 ..

It was established formerly by the seers for the welfare of all beings, / brought forth through austerity in the great waters of the Narmadā.

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snātvā tu kapilātīrthe kapilāṃ yaḥ prayacchati .
śrutvā cākhyānakaṃ divyaṃ brāhmaṇāñchṛṇu yatphalam .. 119.3 ..

Whoever, having bathed at Kapilātīrtha, donates a brown cow, / and having heard the divine narrative, [gives to] brahmins—hear the fruit thereof:

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sarveṣāmeva dānānāṃ kapilādānamuttamam .
brāhmaṇānveṣitaṃ pūrvamṛṣidevasamāgame .. 119.4 ..

Among all gifts, the gift of a brown cow is supreme; / it was investigated by brahmins long ago at the assembly of seers and gods.

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sadyaḥ prasūtāṃ kapilāṃ śobhanāṃ yaḥ prayacchati .
sopavāso jitakrodhastasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 119.5 ..

Whoever donates a newly calved, beautiful brown cow, / fasting and having conquered anger—hear the fruit of his merit:

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sasamudraguhā tena saśailavanakānanā .
dattā caiva mahābāho pṛthivī nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 119.6 ..

By him the earth, with its oceans and caves, / with its mountains, forests, and woods, has been given, O mighty-armed one; there is no doubt of this.

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vācikaṃ mānasaṃ pāpaṃ karmaṇā yatpurā kṛtam .
naśyate kapilāṃ dattvā saptajanmārjitaṃ nṛpa .. 119.7 ..

Sins of speech, mind, and deed that were committed in the past, / accumulated over seven births, are destroyed by giving a brown cow, O king.

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bhūmidānaṃ dhanaṃ dhānyaṃ hastyaśvakanakādikam .
kapilādānasyaikasya kalāṃ nārhanti ṣoḍaśīm .. 119.8 ..

The gift of land, wealth, grain, elephants, horses, gold, and the like / are not worth a sixteenth part of a single gift of a brown cow.

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tatra tīrthe naraḥ snātvā kapilāṃ yaḥ prayacchati .
mṛto viṣṇupuraṃ yāti gīyamāno'psarogaṇaiḥ .. 119.9 ..

A man who bathes in that sacred ford and donates a brown cow / goes upon death to the city of Viṣṇu, sung of by hosts of apsarases.

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yāvanti tasyā romāṇi savatsāyāstu bhārata .
tāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi sa svarge krīḍate ciram .. 119.10 ..

As many hairs as there are on her and her calf, O Bhārata, / for that many thousands of years he sports long in heaven.

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tato'vakīrṇakālena tviha mānuṣyatāṃ gataḥ .
dhanadhānyasamopeto jāyate vipule kule .. 119.11 ..

Then, when that time is completed, having attained human status here, / endowed with wealth and grain, he is born into an illustrious lineage,

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vedavidyā vratasnātaḥ sarvaśāstraviśāradaḥ .
vyādhiśokavinirmukto jīvecca śaradāṃ śatam .. 119.12 ..

bathed in Vedic knowledge and vows, expert in all scriptures, / completely freed from illness and grief, and he lives for a hundred autumns.

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etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ kalhoḍītīrthamuttamam .
yatkṛtvā sarvapāpebhyo mucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 119.13 ..

All this has been told to you regarding the supreme Kalhoḍī tīrtha, / performing which one is freed from all sins—of this there is no doubt.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe kahloḍītīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonaviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the one hundred and nineteenth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of Kahloḍī Tīrtha,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, the compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].