Skandapurana 6.3.164

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adhyāya 164

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchenmahārāja sāṃvauraṃ tīrthamuttamam .
yatra saṃnihito bhānuḥ pūjyamānaḥ surāsuraiḥ .. 164.1 ..

The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O great king, one should go to the excellent Sāṃvaura sacred ford, / where the sun is present, worshipped by gods and asuras.

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tatra ye paṅgutāṃ prāptāḥ śīrṇaghrāṇanakhā narāḥ .
dadrumaṇḍalabhinnāṅgā makṣikākṛmisaṃkulāḥ .. 164.2 ..

Men who have become lame there, whose noses and nails are decayed, / whose bodies are shattered by rings of ringworm, afflicted by flies and worms,

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mātāpitṛbhyāṃ rahitā bhrātṛbhāryāvivarjitāḥ .
anāthā vikalā vyaṅgā magnā ye duḥkhasāgare .. 164.3 ..

bereft of father and mother, abandoned by brothers and wives, / helpless, crippled, deformed, sunk in an ocean of sorrow—

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teṣāṃ nātho jagadyonirnarmadātaṭamāśritaḥ .
sāṃvauranātho lokānāmārtihā duḥkhanāśanaḥ .. 164.4 ..

their protector is the source of the world, residing on the bank of the Narmadā: / the Lord of Sāṃvaura, who dispels the distress and destroys the sorrow of all worlds.

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tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā māsamekaṃ nirantaram .
pūjayedbhāskaraṃ devaṃ tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 164.5 ..

For him who, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships the sun god / continuously for one month, hear the fruit of that merit:

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yatphalaṃ cottare pārtha tathā vai pūrvasāgare .
dakṣiṇe paścime snātvā tatra tīrthe tu tatphalam .. 164.6 ..

Whatever fruit [comes from] bathing in the northern and in the eastern ocean, O son of Pṛthā, / and likewise in the southern and western, that same fruit is obtained at that sacred ford.

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kaumāre yauvane pāpaṃ vārddhake yacca saṃcitam .
tatpraṇaśyati sāṃvaure snānamātrānna saṃśayaḥ .. 164.7 ..

The sin accumulated in childhood, in youth, and in old age, / is destroyed simply by bathing at Sāṃvaura, without a doubt.

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na vyādhirnaiva dāridryaṃ na caiveṣṭaviyojanam .
saptajanmāni rājendra sāṃvauraparisevanāt .. 164.8 ..

There is no disease, nor poverty, nor separation from dear ones / for seven births, O king of kings, from attendance upon Sāṃvaura.

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saptamyāmupavāsena taddine cāpyupoṣite .
sa tatphalamavāpnoti tatra snātvā na saṃśayaḥ .. 164.9 ..

By fasting on the seventh lunar day, and having fasted on that day, / he obtains that fruit by bathing there; there is no doubt.

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raktacandanamiśreṇa yadarghyeṇa phalaṃ smṛtam .
tatra tīrthe nṛpaśreṣṭha snātvā tatphalamāpnuyāt .. 164.10 ..

The fruit that is remembered as arising from an oblation mixed with red sandalwood— / by bathing at that sacred ford, O best of kings, he attains that fruit.

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narmadāsalilaṃ ramyaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .
nirīkṣitaṃ viśeṣeṇa sāṃvaureṇa mahātmanā .. 164.11 ..

The charming water of the Narmadā, destroying all sins, / is especially beheld by the great-souled [god] of Sāṃvaura.

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te dhanyāste mahātmānasteṣāṃ janma sujīvitam .
snātvā paśyanti deveśaṃ sāṃvaureśvaramuttamam .. 164.12 ..

Fortunate are they, great-souled are they, and well-lived is their life, / who, having bathed, behold the supreme Lord of the gods, Sāṃvaureśvara.

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sūryaloke vasettāvadyāvadābhūtasamplavam .. 164.13 ..

He shall dwell in the world of the sun until the dissolution of all beings.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe sāṃvaureśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma catuḥṣaṣṭyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-fourth chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Sāṃvaureśvaratīrtha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].