Skandapurana 6.3.68

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adhyāya 68

6.3.68.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
dhanadasya tu tattīrthaṃ tato gacchedyudhiṣṭhira .
narmadādakṣiṇe kūle sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 68.1 ..

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then one should go, O Yudhiṣṭhira, to the sacred ford of Dhanada,
on the south bank of the Narmadā, which destroys all sins.

6.3.68.2

sarvatīrthaphalaṃ tatra prāpyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .
caitramāsatrayodaśyāṃ śuklapakṣe jitendriyaḥ .. 68.2 ..

The fruit of all sacred fords is obtained there, of this there is no doubt.
On the thirteenth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Caitra, with senses restrained,

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upoṣya parayā bhaktyā rātrau kurvīta jāgaram .
pañcāmṛtena rājendra snāpayeddhanadaṃ budhaḥ .. 68.3 ..

having fasted with supreme devotion, one should keep vigil at night.
O best of kings, the wise man should bathe Dhanada with the five nectars.

6.3.68.4

dīpaṃ ghṛtena dātavyaṃ gītaṃ vādyaṃ ca kārayet .
prabhāte pūjayedviprānātmanaḥ śreya icchati .. 68.4 ..

A lamp with ghee should be offered, and singing and instrumental music performed.
At dawn, one who desires welfare for oneself should worship brahmins,

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pratigrahasamarthāṃśca vidyāsiddhāntavādinaḥ .
śrautasmārtakriyāyuktān paradāraparāṅmukhān .. 68.5 ..

who are worthy of receiving gifts, who proclaim knowledge and established truths,
who are devoted to Vedic and traditional rituals, and who turn away from others' wives.

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pūjayedgohiraṇyena vastropānahabhojanaiḥ .
chatraśayyāpradānena sarvapāpakṣayo bhavet .. 68.6 ..

He should worship them with cattle, gold, garments, shoes, and meals;
by the gift of an umbrella and a bed, the destruction of all sins takes place,

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trijanmajanitaṃ pāpaṃ varadasya prabhāvataḥ .
svargadaṃ durvinītānāṃ vinītānāṃ ca mokṣadam .. 68.7 ..

even the sin produced in three births, through the power of the granter of boons.
It gives heaven to the undisciplined, and liberation to the disciplined.

6.3.68.8

annadaṃ ca daridrāṇāṃ bhavejjanmanijanmani .
kulīnatvaṃ duḥkhahāniḥ svabhāvājāyate nare .. 68.8 ..

It becomes a giver of food to the poor birth after birth;
noble birth and the destruction of misery naturally arise for a man.

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vyādhidhvaṃso bhavetteṣāṃ narmadodakasevanāt .
dhanadasya tu yastīrthe vidyādānaṃ prayacchati .. 68.9 ..

Destruction of disease occurs for them from serving the water of the Narmadā.
And whoever offers the gift of knowledge at the sacred ford of Dhanada,

6.3.68.10

sa yāti bhāskare loke sarvavyādhivivarjite .
devadroṇīṃ ca tatraiva svaśaktyā pāṇḍunandana .. 68.10 ..

he goes to the world of the sun, which is free of all disease.
And whoever, according to one's means, [organizes] a deity's procession right there, O son of Pāṇḍu,

6.3.68.11

ye prakurvanti bhūyiṣṭhāṃ revāyā dakṣiṇe taṭe .
te yānti śāṃkare loke sarvaduḥkhavivarjite .. 68.11 ..

and those who perform it abundantly on the south bank of the Revā,
they go to the world of Śaṅkara, which is free of all sorrow.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe dhanadatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmāṣṭaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the sixty-eighth chapter, entitled "The Description of the Greatness of Dhanadatīrtha," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].