Skandapurana 6.3.64

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adhyāya 64

6.3.64.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra tīrthaṃ paramaśobhanam .
narāṇāṃ pāpanāśāya agastyeśvaramuttamam .. 64.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O king of kings, one should go to the exceedingly beautiful sacred ford, / the excellent Agastyeśvara, for the destruction of men's sins. 64.1

6.3.64.2

tatra snātvā naro rājanmucyate brahmahatyayā .
kārttikasya tu māsasya kṛṣṇapakṣe caturdaśī .. 64.2 ..

Having bathed there, O king, a man is freed from the murder of a brahmin. / On the fourteenth day in the dark fortnight of the month of Kārttika, 64.2

6.3.64.3

ghṛtena snāpayeddevaṃ samādhistho jitendriyaḥ .
ekaviṃśatikulopeto cyavedaiśvarātpadāt .. 64.3 ..

absorbed in meditation and with senses restrained, one should bathe the god with clarified butter; / along with twenty-one generations of his family, he does not fall from the state of Īśvara. 64.3

6.3.64.4

dhanaṃ copānahau chatraṃ dadyācca ghṛtakambalam .
bhojanaṃ caiva sarveṣāṃ sarvaṃ koṭiguṇaṃ bhavet .. 64.4 ..

And one should give wealth, two shoes, an umbrella, a blanket with clarified butter, / and food to all; everything becomes multiplied ten million times. 64.4

6.3.64.4_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe agastyeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma catuḥṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the sixty-fourth chapter, titled "Description of the Māhātmya of the Agastyeśvara Sacred Ford," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.