Skandapurana 6.3.66

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adhyāya 66

6.3.66.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra mātṛtīrthamanuttamam .
saṅgamasya samīpasthaṃ narmadādakṣiṇe taṭe .. 66.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O king of kings, one should go to the unsurpassed Mātṛtīrtha, / situated near the confluence on the southern bank of the Narmadā.

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mātarastatra rājendra saṃjātā narmadātaṭe .
umārdhanārirdeveśo vyālayajñopavītadhṛk .. 66.2 ..

The Mothers were born there on the bank of the Narmadā, O king of kings. / The Lord of gods, whose half-form is Umā, wearing a serpent as a sacred thread,

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uvāca yoginīvṛndaṃ kaṣṭaṃkaṣṭamaho hara .
ajeyāḥ sarvadevānāṃ tvatprasādānmaheśvara .. 66.3 ..

said to the assembly of yoginīs: "Alas, what distress, what distress, O Hara! / By your favor, O Maheśvara, you are invincible to all the gods.

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tīrthamatra vidhānena prakhyātaṃ vasudhātale .
evaṃ bhavatu yoginya ityuktvāntaradhācchivaḥ .. 66.4 ..

Let there be a sacred ford established here by proper rule, famous upon the earth's surface." / Saying "So be it, O yoginīs," Śiva vanished.

6.3.66.5

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tatra tīrthe tu yo bhaktyā navamyāṃ niyataḥ śuciḥ .
upoṣya parayā bhaktyā pūjayenmātṛgocaram .. 66.5 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Whoever, restrained and pure, fasts with supreme devotion on the ninth day / at that sacred ford, and worships the domain of the Mothers,

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tasya syurmātaraḥ prītāḥ prīto'yaṃ vṛṣavāhanaḥ .
vandhyāyā mṛtavatsāyā aputrāyā yudhiṣṭhira .. 66.6 ..

the Mothers become pleased with him, as does this bull-vehicled [Śiva]. / For a barren woman, a woman whose child has died, or one without a son, O Yudhiṣṭhira,

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snāpanaṃ cārabhettatra mantraśāstraviduttamaḥ .
sahiraṇyena kumbhena pañcaratnaphalānvitaḥ .. 66.7 ..

the foremost master of the science of mantras should then begin a ceremonial bath / with a golden pot accompanied by the five jewels and fruits.

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snāpayetputrakāmāyāḥ kāṃsyapātreṇa deśikaḥ .
putraṃ sā labhate nārī vīryavantaṃ guṇānvitam .. 66.8 ..

The preceptor should bathe the woman desiring a son using a bronze vessel. / That woman obtains a heroic son endowed with virtues.

6.3.66.9

yo yaṃ kāmamabhidhyāyettataḥ sa labhate nṛpa .
mātṛtīrthātparaṃ tīrthaṃ na bhūtaṃ na bhaviṣyati .. 66.9 ..

Whatever desire one contemplates, one obtains from that, O king. / No sacred ford higher than Mātṛtīrtha has ever been, nor ever will be.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe mātṛtīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṭṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the sixty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Mātṛtīrtha', in the Revā Section of the fifth Avanti Section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.