Skandapurana 6.3.71

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adhyāya 71

6.3.71.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
kāmeśvaraṃ tataścānyacchṛṇu pāṇḍavasattama .
siddho yatra gaṇādhyakṣo gaurīputro mahābalaḥ .. 71.1 ..

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then hear of another [ford], Kāmeśvara, O best of Pāṇḍavas,
where the leader of the gaṇas, the mighty son of Gaurī, attained perfection.

6.3.71.2

tatra tīrthe tu yo bhaktyā bhaktiyukto jitendriyaḥ .
pañcāmṛtena saṃsnāpya dhūpanaivedyapūjanaiḥ .. 71.2 ..

Whoever, endowed with devotion, with senses restrained, at that sacred ford with devotion,
having bathed [the deity] with the five nectars, through worship with incense and food offerings,

6.3.71.3

prasādya jagatāmīśaṃ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate .
aṣṭamyāṃ mārgaśīrṣasya tatra snātvā yudhiṣṭhira .. 71.3 ..

and having propitiated the Lord of the worlds, is released from all sins.
Having bathed there on the eighth day of Mārgaśīrṣa, O Yudhiṣṭhira,

6.3.71.4

yo yena yajate tatra sa taṃ kāmamavāpnuyāt .. 71.4 ..

whatever one sacrifices for there, that desire one shall obtain.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe kāmeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikasaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

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