Skandapurana 6.3.12

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adhyāya 12

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
etacchrutvā vaco rājansaṃhṛṣṭā ṛṣayo'bhavan .
narmadāṃ stotumārabdhāḥ kṛtāñjalipuṭā dvijāḥ .. 12.1 ..

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Having heard these words, O king, the seers were delighted. / With folded hands, the twice-born began to praise the Narmadā:

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namo'stu te puṇyajale namo makaragāmini .
namaste pāpamocinyai namo devi varānane .. 12.2 ..

'Salutations to you of sacred water; salutations to you who ride on a makara! / Salutations to you, O deliverer from sin; salutations, O goddess of beautiful face!

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namo'stu te puṇyajalāśraye śubhe viśuddhasattvaṃ surasiddhasevite .
namo'stu te tīrthagaṇairniṣevite namo'stu rudrāṅgasamudbhave vare .. 12.3 ..

Salutations to you, O auspicious abode of sacred waters, pure of essence, served by gods and siddhas! / Salutations to you, frequented by hosts of sacred fords; salutations to you, O excellent one born from Rudra's body!

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namo'stu te devi samudragāmini namo'stu te devi varaprade śive .
namo'stu lokadvayasaukhyadāyini hyanekabhūtaughasamāśrite'naghe .. 12.4 ..

Salutations to you, O goddess who flow to the ocean; salutations to you, O auspicious goddess who grant boons! / Salutations to you who grant happiness in both worlds, who are resorted to by countless multitudes of beings, O sinless one!

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saridvare pāpahare vicitrite gandharvayakṣoragasevitāṅge .
sanātani prāṇigaṇānukampini mokṣaprade devi vidhehi śaṃ naḥ .. 12.5 ..

O best of rivers, remover of sins, variegated one whose body is served by Gandharvas, Yakṣas, and Uragas! / O eternal one, compassionate toward all living beings, bestower of liberation! O goddess, grant us welfare!

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mahāgajairghamahiṣairvarāhaiḥ saṃsevite devi mahormimāle .
natāḥ sma sarve varade sukhaprade vimocayāsmānpaśupāśabandhāt .. 12.6 ..

O goddess served by great elephants, dark buffaloes, and boars, adorned with garlands of great waves! / We all bow to you, O giver of boons, O giver of happiness; deliver us from the bonds of paśus!

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pāpairanekairaśubhairvibaddhā bhramanti tāvannarakeṣu martyāḥ .
mahānilodbhūtataraṅgabhūtaṃ yāvattavāmbho hi na saṃspṛśanti .. 12.7 ..

Bound by numerous inauspicious sins, mortals wander in hells / only so long as they do not touch your waters, which are stirred into waves by the mighty wind.

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anekaduḥkhaughabhayārditānāṃ pāpairanekairabhiveṣṭitānām .
gatistvamambhojasamānavakre dvandvairanekairapi saṃvṛtānām .. 12.8 ..

To those tormented by the perils of countless afflictions, enveloped in numerous sins, / and surrounded by various dualities, you are the refuge, O one whose face resembles a lotus!

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nadyaśca pūtā vimalā bhavanti tvāṃ devi samprāpya na saṃśayo'tra .
duḥkhāturāṇāmabhayaṃ dadāsi śiṣṭairanekairabhipūjitāsi .. 12.9 ..

Even rivers become purified and spotless upon reaching you, O goddess; there is no doubt about this. / You give fearlessness to those distressed by suffering; you are worshiped by many virtuous ones.

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spṛṣṭaṃ karaiścandramaso raveśca tadaiva dadyātparamaṃ padaṃ tu .
yatropalāḥ puṇyajalāplutāste śivatvamāyānti kimatra citram .. 12.10 ..

Touched by the rays of the moon and the sun, she immediately grants the highest realm; / and where the stones immersed in your sacred water attain Śiva-hood, what is there to wonder at?

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bhramanti tāvannarakeṣu martyā duḥkhāturāḥ pāpaparītadehāḥ .
mahānilodbhūtataraṅgabhaṅgaṃ yāvattavāmbho na hi saṃśrayanti .. 12.11 ..

Mortals wander in hells, tormented by suffering and their bodies covered in sins, / only so long as they do not resort to your water with breaking waves raised by the mighty wind.

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mlecchāḥ pulindāstvatha yātudhānāḥ pibanti ye'mbhastava devi puṇyam .
muktā bhavantīha bhayāttu ghorānniḥsaṃśayaṃ te'pi kimatra citram .. 12.12 ..

Even Mlecchas, Pulindas, and Yātudhānas who drink your sacred water, O goddess, / are undoubtedly freed here from terrible fear—what is there to wonder at?'

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sarāṃsi nadyaḥ kṣayamabhyupetā ghore yuge'smin hi kalau pradūṣite .
tvaṃ bhrājase devi jalaughapūrṇā divīva nakṣatrapathe ca gaṅgā .. 12.13 ..

Lakes and rivers have met with destruction in this dreadful, corrupted Kali age, / but you shine, O goddess, filled with floods of water, like the Gaṅgā in the sky on the path of the constellations.

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tava prasādādvarade variṣṭhe kālaṃ yathemaṃ paripālayitvā .
yāmo'tha rudraṃ tava suprasādādvayaṃ tathā tvaṃ kuru vai prasādam .. 12.14 ..

O bestower of boons, O most excellent one! By your grace, having thus endured this time, / may we then go to Rudra by your good grace; please grant that grace to us.

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gatistvamambeva piteva putrāṃstvaṃ pāhi no yāvadimaṃ yugāntam .
kālaṃ tvanāvṛṣṭihataṃ sughoraṃ yāvattarāmastava suprasādāt .. 12.15 ..

You are our refuge, like a mother and like a father to children; protect us until this end of the age, / so that we may cross over this most terrible time stricken by drought, by your good grace.

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paṭhanti ye stotramidaṃ dvijendrāḥ śṛṇvanti ye cāpi narāḥ praśāntāḥ .
te yānti rudraṃ vṛṣasaṃyutena yānena divyāmbarabhūṣitāśca .. 12.16 ..

The best among the twice-born who recite this hymn of praise, and the tranquil men who listen to it, / adorned with divine garments, go to Rudra in a vehicle accompanied by a bull.

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ye stotrametatsatataṃ paṭhanti snātvā tu toye khalu narmadāyāḥ .
ante hi teṣāṃ sariduttameyaṃ gatiṃ viśuddhāmacirāddadāti .. 12.17 ..

Those who constantly recite this hymn after having bathed in the water of the Narmadā, / to them at the end this best of rivers soon gives a purified state.

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prātaḥ samutthāya tathā śayāno yaḥ kīrtayetānudinaṃ stavaṃ ca .
sa muktapāpaḥ suviśuddhadehaḥ samāśrayaṃ yāti maheśvarasya .. 12.18 ..

Having risen in the morning, and likewise when lying down, whoever praises [her] day after day with this hymn, / freed from sin, his body completely purified, goes to the shelter of Maheśvara.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe śrīnarmadāmāhātmye narmadāstotrakathanaṃ nāma dvādaśo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the twelfth chapter, entitled 'Recital of the Narmadā Hymn,' in the Revered Narmadā-māhātmya, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section, in the venerable Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.