Skandapurana 6.3.77

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adhyāya 77

6.3.77.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
bhīmeśvaraṃ tato gacchetsarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .
sevitaṃ ṛṣisaṅghaiśca bhīmavratadharaiḥ śubhaiḥ .. 77.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then one should go to Bhīmeśvara, which destroys all sin,
resorted to by hosts of seers, auspicious practitioners of fierce vows.

6.3.77.2

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā sopavāso jitendriyaḥ .
japedekākṣaraṃ mantramūrdhvabāhurdivākare .. 77.2 ..

At that sacred ford, having bathed, fasting and with senses subdued,
raising one's arms toward the sun, one should mutter the single-syllable mantra.

6.3.77.3

tasya janmārjitaṃ pāpaṃ tatkṣaṇādeva naśyati .
saptajanmārjitaṃ pāpaṃ gāyatryā naśyate dhruvam .. 77.3 ..

The sin accumulated in his [present] life is destroyed that very instant. / The sin accumulated in seven lives is surely destroyed by the Gāyatrī.

6.3.77.4

daśabhirjanmabhirjātaṃ śatena tu purā kṛtam .
sahasreṇa trijanmotthaṃ gāyatrī hanti kilbiṣam .. 77.4 ..

With ten [recitations] the sin incurred in ten lives is removed; with a hundred, that which was done long ago; / with a thousand, the Gāyatrī destroys the sin arising from three births.

6.3.77.5

vaidikaṃ laukikaṃ vāpi jāpyaṃ japtaṃ nareśvara .
tatkṣaṇāddahate sarvaṃ tṛṇaṃ tu jvalano yathā .. 77.5 ..

Whatever Vedic or worldly recitation is chanted, O lord of men, / at that moment burns all [sins], just as fire [burns] straw.

6.3.77.6

na devabalamāśritya kadācitpāpamācaret .
ajñānānnaśyate kṣipraṃ nottaraṃ tu kadācana .. 77.6 ..

One should never commit a sin relying upon the power of a deity. / A [sin committed] through ignorance is destroyed quickly, but never one committed subsequently [with deliberation].

6.3.77.7

tatra tīrthe tu yo dānaṃ śaktimāśritya cācaret .
tadakṣayyaphalaṃ sarvaṃ jāyate pāṇḍunandana .. 77.7 ..

And whatever gift one gives at that sacred ford according to one's capacity, / all of that yields imperishable fruit, O son of Pāṇḍu.

6.3.77.7_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe bhīmeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptasaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the seventy-seventh chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Bhīmeśvara Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [section], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].