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Skandapurana 6.3.219

Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 6.3.219

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6.3.219.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
narmadādakṣiṇe kūle tīrthaṃ koṭīśvaraṃ param .
yatra snānaṃ ca dānaṃ ca sarvaṃ koṭiguṇaṃ bhavet .. 219.1 ..

The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said:
“On the south bank of the Narmadā is the supreme Koṭīśvara sacred ford, / where ritual ablution and charity all become multiplied ten-millionfold.

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6.3.219.2

tatra devāḥ sagandharvā ṛṣayo ye tathāmalāḥ .
koṭitīrthe parāṃ siddhiṃ samprāptā bhuvi durlabhām .. 219.2 ..

There, the gods with the gandharvas, and the spotless seers, / attained supreme siddhi, rare on earth, at Koṭitīrtha.”

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6.3.219.3

sthāpitaśca mahādevastatra koṭīśvaro nṛpa .
taṃ dṛṣṭvā devadeveśaṃ siddhiṃ prāpnotyanuttamām .. 219.3 ..

And there, O king, Mahādeva Koṭīśvara was installed. / Having beheld that Lord of the gods of gods, one attains unsurpassed perfection.

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6.3.219.4

tatra tīrthe tu yatkiṃcicchubhaṃ vā yadi vāśubham .
kriyate tannṛpaśreṣṭha sarvaṃ koṭiguṇaṃ bhavet .. 219.4 ..

Whatever good or even evil is done at that sacred ford, / O best of kings, all of it becomes multiplied ten-millionfold.

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6.3.219.5

tatra dakṣiṇamārgasthā ye kecinmunisattamāḥ .
siddhā mṛtāḥ padaṃ yānti pitṛlokaṃ dhruvaṃ hi te .. 219.5 ..

Whatever best of sages there, following the southern path, / die as perfected ones, they truly go to the permanent abode, the world of the ancestors.

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6.3.219.6

uttaraṃ narmadākūlaṃ ye śreṣṭhā munipuṃgavāḥ .
devalokaṃ gatāḥ pūrvamiti śāstrasya niścayaḥ .. 219.6 ..

Those best, pre-eminent sages [who remained on] the northern bank of the Narmadā, / have previously gone to the world of the gods: such is the conclusion of scripture.

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6.3.219.6_1

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe koṭitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonaviṃśadadhikadviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the two hundred and nineteenth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Koṭitīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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