Skandapurana 6.3.124

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adhyāya 124

6.3.124.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchenmahīpāla narmadeśvaramuttamam .
tatra tīrthe naraḥ snātvā mucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ .. 124.1 ..

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the excellent Narmadeśvara; / having bathed at that sacred ford, a man is freed from all sins.

6.3.124.2

agnipraveśaśca jale'thavā mṛtyuranāśake .
anivartikā gatistasya yathā me śaṅkaro'bravīt .. 124.2 ..

Entering fire, or [death] in water, or death by fasting— / his path is one of no return, just as Śaṅkara told me.

6.3.124.2_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe narmadeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma caturviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-fourth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of Narmadeśvaratīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.