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# Skandapurana 6.3.139

Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 6.3.139

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.139.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.p1)

adhyāya 139

### [6.3.139.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchenmahārāja somatīrthamanuttamam .  
yatra somastapastaptvā nakṣatrapathamāsthitaḥ .. 139.1 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O great king, to the unsurpassed Somatīrtha, / where Soma, having performed austerity, ascended to the path of constellations.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.2)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snāyādācamya vidhipūrvakam .  
kṛtajāpyo raviṃ dhyāyettasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 139.2 ..

> Whoever bathes in that sacred ford, sips water according to rule, / and meditates on the sun after reciting prayers, hear the meritorious fruit of that:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.3)

ṛgvedayajurvedābhyāṃ sāmavedena bhārata .  
japato yatphalaṃ proktaṃ gāyatryā cātra tatphalam .. 139.3 ..

> Whatever fruit is declared from reciting the Ṛgveda, the Yajurveda, / and the Sāmaveda, O Bhārata, that fruit is \[attained\] here through the Gāyatrī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.4)

tatra tīrthe tu yo bhaktyā brāhmaṇān bhojayecchuciḥ .  
tena samyagvidhānena koṭirbhavati bhojitā .. 139.4 ..

> Whoever, being pure, feeds brahmins with devotion in that sacred ford, / by him, in accordance with the proper ritual, ten million have been fed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.5)

pādukopānahau chatraṃ vastrakambalavājinaḥ .  
yo datte vipramukhyāya tasya tatkoṭisaṃmitam .. 139.5 ..

> Whoever gives wooden shoes, leather footwear, an umbrella, / garments, blankets, or horses to the foremost of brahmins, for him that is equal to ten million \[such gifts\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.6)

sahasraṃ tu sahasrāṇāmanṛcāṃ yastu bhojayet .  
ekasya mantrayuktasya kalāṃ nārhati ṣoḍaśīm .. 139.6 ..

> If one feeds a thousand thousands who do not know the Ṛc verses, / they do not equal a sixteenth part of one who is endowed with mantras.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.7)

evaṃ tu bhojayettatra bahvṛcaṃ vedapāragam .  
śākhāntargamathādhvaryuṃ chandogaṃ vā samāptigam .. 139.7 ..

> Thus one should feed there an expert in the Rigveda who has mastered the Vedas, / or an Adhvaryu versed in the branches, or a Chāndoga who has completed \[his study\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.8)

agnihotrasahasrasya yatphalaṃ prāpyate budhaiḥ .  
samaṃ tadvedaviduṣā tīrthe somasya tatphalam .. 139.8 ..

> Whatever fruit is obtained by the wise through a thousand Agnihotras, / that same fruit is attained at Somatīrtha through a knower of the Veda.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.9)

bhojayedyaḥ śataṃ teṣāṃ sahasraṃ labhate naraḥ .  
ekasya yogayuktasya tatphalaṃ kavayo viduḥ .. 139.9 ..

> A man who feeds a hundred of them obtains \[the fruit of feeding\] a thousand; / the wise know that fruit to belong to \[feeding\] a single person endowed with yoga.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.10)

saṃnirudhyendriyagrāmaṃ yatrayatra vasenmuniḥ .  
tatratatra kurukṣetraṃ naimiṣaṃ puṣkarāṇi ca .. 139.10 ..

> Wherever a sage dwells, having restrained the collection of senses, / there are Kurukṣetra, Naimiṣa, and the Puṣkaras.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.11)

tasmātsarvaprayatnena grahaṇe candrasūryayoḥ .  
saṃkrāntau ca vyatīpāte yogī bhojyo viśeṣataḥ .. 139.11 ..

> Therefore, with every effort, during an eclipse of the moon or the sun, / at a solstice or an equinox, and on Vyatīpāta, a yogin especially must be fed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.12)

saṃnyāsaṃ kurute yastu tatra tīrthe yudhiṣṭhira .  
vimānena mahābhāgāḥ sa yāti tridivaṃ naraḥ .. 139.12 ..

> The man who takes the renunciation vow in that sacred ford, O Yudhiṣṭhira, / goes to heaven by means of an aerial chariot, O illustrious one.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.13)

somasyānucaro bhūtvā tenaiva saha modate .. 139.13 ..

> Having become an attendant of Soma, he rejoices with him indeed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.139.13\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda*vulgate.6.3.139.13_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe somatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonacatvāriṃśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-ninth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Somatīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.139.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (4)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.139.1) — Sanskrit
- [Nyāyamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.nyaya.nyayamanjari.1.4.213) — Jayanta Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.145) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit
- [Kalpaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.vidhi.mantra.kalpah.2.4.13.37) — Sanskrit

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