Skandapurana 6.3.217

Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 6.3.217

Language: Sanskrit

6.3.217.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
eraṇḍīsaṅgamaṃ gacchetsurāsuranamaskṛtam .
tattu tīrthaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam .. 217.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / One should go to the confluence of Eraṇḍī, which is revered by gods and demons. / That sacred ford is exceedingly meritorious, destroying great sins.
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6.3.217.2

upavāsaparo bhūtvā niyatendriyamānasaḥ .
tatra snātvā vidhānena mucyate brahmahatyayā .. 217.2 ..

Devoted to fasting, with mind and senses restrained, / bathing there according to rule, one is freed from the murder of a brahmin.
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6.3.217.3

tatra tīrthe tu yo bhaktyā prāṇatyāgaparo bhavet .
anivartikā gatistasya rudralokādasaṃśayam .. 217.3 ..

Whoever with devotion gives up his life's breath at that sacred ford / attains a state from which there is no return from the realm of Rudra, without doubt.
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6.3.217.3_1

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe eraṇḍītīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptadaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the two hundred and seventeenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Eraṇḍītīrtha,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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