Skandapurana 6.3.25

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adhyāya 25

6.3.25.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
oṃkārātpūrvabhāge vai saṅgamo lokaviśrutaḥ .
revayā saṃgatā yatra nīlagaṅgā nṛpottama .. 25.1 ..

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / To the east of Oṃkāra is a confluence renowned throughout the world, / where the Nīlagaṅgā joins the Revā, O best of kings.

6.3.25.2

tatra snātvā japitvā ca ko'rtho'labhyo bhavedbhuvi .
ṣaṣṭirvarṣasahasrāṇi nīlakaṇṭhapure vaset .. 25.2 ..

Having bathed and chanted there, what goal on earth could remain unattainable? / One will dwell in the city of Nīlakaṇṭha for sixty thousand years.

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tarpayitvā pitṝñśrāddhe tilamiśrairjalairapi .
uddharedātmanā sārdhaṃ puruṣānekaviṃśatim .. 25.3 ..

Having gratified the ancestors in a śrāddha with waters mixed with sesame seeds, / one elevates twenty-one generations of men along with oneself.

6.3.25.3_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe narmadāmāhātmye nīlagaṅgāyāḥ saṅgamamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the twenty-fifth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Confluence of the Nīlagaṅgā', in the Narmadāmāhātmya of the Revākhaṇḍa of the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, the fifth [part] of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].