Skandapurana 6.3.61

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adhyāya 61

6.3.61.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchetparaṃ puṇyaṃ narmadādakṣiṇe taṭe .
śakratīrthaṃ suvikhyātamaśeṣāghavināśanam .. 61.1 ..

The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go to the exceedingly sacred Śakratīrtha on the southern bank of the Narmadā, / celebrated for destroying all sins.

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purā śakreṇa tatraiva tapo vai duratikramam .
prārabdhaṃ parayā bhaktyā devaṃ prati maheśvaram .. 61.2 ..

Formerly, Śakra undertook hard-to-surpass austerity right there / with supreme devotion directed toward the god Maheśvara.

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tataḥ saṃtoṣito deva umāpatirnarādhipa .
devendratvaṃ varaṃ rājyaṃ dānavānāṃ vadhaṃ dadau .. 61.3 ..

Then, pleased, the lord of Umā granted him, O ruler of men, / the boon of lordship of the gods, sovereignty, and the slaughter of the Dānavas.

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labdhaṃ śakreṇa nṛpate narmadātīrthabhāvataḥ .
tataḥ puṇyatamaṃ tīrthaṃ saṃjātaṃ vasudhātale .. 61.4 ..

It was obtained by Śakra, O king, by virtue of the Narmadā sacred ford; / consequently, it became the most sacred ford upon the earth.

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kārttikasya tu māsasya kṛṣṇapakṣe trayodaśīm .
upoṣya vai naro bhaktyā sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate .. 61.5 ..

Having fasted with devotion on the thirteenth day / of the dark half of the month of Kārttika, a man is freed from all sins.

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duḥsvapnasambhavaiḥ pāpairdurnimittasamudbhavaiḥ .
grahaśākinisambhūtairmucyate pāṇḍunandana .. 61.6 ..

From sins arising from bad dreams, from those originating from ill omens, / and from those caused by evil planets and Śākinīs, he is freed, O son of Pāṇḍu.

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śakreśvaraṃ nṛpaśreṣṭha ye prapaśyanti bhaktitaḥ .
teṣāṃ janmakṛtaṃ pāpaṃ naśyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 61.7 ..

Those who behold Śakreśvara with devotion, O best of kings, / their sin committed in this birth is destroyed; of this there is no doubt.

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agamyāgamane caiva avāhye caiva vāhite .
svāmimitravighāte yannaśyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 61.8 ..

What [sin arises] from approaching forbidden women, or from mounting what should not be mounted, / or from harming one's master or friend, is destroyed; of this there is no doubt.

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gopradānaṃ prakartavyaṃ śubhaṃ brāhmaṇapuṃgave .
dhuryaṃ vā dāpayettasmin sarvāṅgaruciraṃ nṛpa .. 61.9 ..

The auspicious gift of a cow should be made to an eminent brahmin; / or one should cause an ox, beautiful in all its limbs, to be given there, O king.

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dātavyaṃ parayā bhaktyā svarge vāsamabhīpsatā .
etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ śakreśvaraphalaṃ nṛpa .. 61.10 ..

It should be given with supreme devotion by one who desires residence in heaven. / All this has been told to you, O king, regarding the fruit of Śakreśvara.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe śakreśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the sixty-first chapter, named 'The Description of the Greatness of the Śakreśvara Sacred Ford', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [section], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the great Purāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.