Skandapurana 6.3.59

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adhyāya 59

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tataḥ puṣkariṇīṃ gacchetsarvapāpapraṇāśinīm .
śrute yasyāḥ prabhāve tu sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate .. 59.1 ..

The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go to Puṣkariṇī, which destroys all sins, / by merely hearing whose efficacy one is freed from all sins.

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revāyā uttare kūle tīrthaṃ paramaśobhanam .
yatrāste sarvadā devo vedamūrtirdivākaraḥ .. 59.2 ..

On the northern bank of the Revā is an exceedingly splendid sacred ford, / where the sun god, the embodiment of the Vedas, dwells forever.

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kurukṣetraṃ yathā puṇyaṃ sārvakāmikamuttamam .
idaṃ tīrthaṃ tathā puṇyaṃ sarvakāmaphalapradam .. 59.3 ..

Just as Kurukṣetra is sacred, supreme, and granting all desires, / so is this sacred ford holy, granting the fruit of every wish.

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kurukṣetre yathā vṛddhirdānasya jagatīpate .
puṣkariṇyāṃ tathā dānaṃ vardhate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 59.4 ..

Just as a gift increases at Kurukṣetra, O lord of the earth, / so does a gift multiply at Puṣkariṇī; of this there is no doubt.

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yavamekaṃ tu yo dadyātsauvarṇaṃ mastake nṛpa .
puṣkariṇyāṃ tathā sthānaṃ yathā sthānaṃ nare smṛtam .. 59.5 ..

Whatever person gives a single barley-corn of gold upon his head, O king, / at Puṣkariṇī, thus is remembered a dwelling for that man.

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sūryagrahe tu yaḥ snātvā dadyāddānaṃ yathāvidhi .
hastyaśvaratharatnādi gṛhaṃ gāśca yugaṃdharān .. 59.6 ..

He who, having bathed during a solar eclipse, gives a gift according to the rules— / elephants, horses, chariots, jewels and the like, a house, cattle, and beasts of burden,

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suvarṇaṃ rajataṃ vāpi brāhmaṇebhyo dadāti yaḥ .
trayodaśa dinaṃ yāvattrayodaśaguṇaṃ bhavet .. 59.7 ..

or who gives gold or silver to brahmins, / for thirteen days it bears thirteen-fold fruit.

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tilamiśreṇa toyena tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ .
dvādaśābde bhavetprītistatra tīrthe mahīpate .. 59.8 ..

One should gratify the ancestors and deities with water mixed with sesame seeds; / the satisfaction [of the ancestors] lasts for twelve years at that sacred ford, O king.

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yastatra kurute śrāddhaṃ pāyasairmadhusarpiṣā .
śrāddhado labhate svargaṃ pitḥṇāṃ dattamakṣayam .. 59.9 ..

Whoever performs a śrāddha there with milk rice, honey, and clarified butter, / the performer of the śrāddha attains heaven, and what was given to the ancestors becomes inexhaustible.

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akṣatairbadarairbilvairiṅgudairvā tilaiḥ saha .
akṣayaṃ phalamāpnoti tasmiṃstīrthe na saṃśayaḥ .. 59.10 ..

With unhusked grains, jujube fruits, bilva fruits, or ingudas along with sesame seeds, / one obtains imperishable fruit at that sacred ford, without doubt.

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tatra snātvā tu yo devaṃ pūjayecca divākaram .
ādityahṛdayaṃ japtvā punarādityamarcayet .
sa gacchetparamaṃ lokaṃ tridaśairapi vanditam .. 59.11 ..

Having bathed there, whoever worships the sun god, / having recited the Ādityahṛdaya and worshipped the sun once more, / goes to the supreme world praised even by the gods.

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ṛcamekāṃ japedyastu yajurvā sāma eva ca .
sa samagrasya vedasya phalamāpnoti vai nṛpa .. 59.12 ..

Whoever recites a single ṛc, yajus, or sāman verse, / he obtains the fruit of the entire Veda, O king.

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yastryakṣaraṃ japenmantraṃ dhyāyamāno divākaram .
ādityahṛdayaṃ japtvā mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ .. 59.13 ..

Whoever recites the three-syllable mantra, meditating on the sun, / having recited the Ādityahṛdaya, is freed from all sins.

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yastatra vidhivatprāṇāṃstyajate nṛpasattama .
sa gacchetparamaṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo divākaraḥ .. 59.14 ..

Whoever gives up his life-breaths there according to the rules, O best of kings, / goes to that supreme realm where the sun god dwells.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe puṣkariṇyāmādityatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the fifty-ninth chapter, named 'The Description of the Greatness of the Āditya Sacred Ford at Puṣkariṇī', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [section], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the great Purāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.