Skandapurana 6.3.86

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adhyāya 86

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchenmahārāja piṅgalāvartamuttamam .
saṅgamasya samīpasthaṃ revāyā uttare taṭe .
havyavāhena rājendra sthāpitaḥ piṅgaleśvaraḥ .. 86.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O great king, to the excellent Piṅgalāvarta / situated near the confluence on the northern bank of the Revā. / O chief of kings, Piṅgaleśvara was installed by the Carrier of Oblations.

6.3.86.2

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -
havyavāhena bhagavannīśvaraḥ sthāpitaḥ katham .
etadākhyāhi me sarvaṃ prasādādvaktumarhasi .. 86.2 ..

Yudhiṣṭhira said: / O lord, how was Īśvara installed by the Carrier of Oblations? / Tell me all this; you ought to speak out of grace.

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mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
śambhunā retasā rājaṃstarpito havyavāhanaḥ .
prāptasaukhyena raudreṇa gauryākrīḍanacetasā .. 86.3 ..

Mārkaṇḍeya said: / O king, the Carrier of Oblations was satiated by Śambhu with his semen, / when the fierce [god] had attained pleasure with a mind intent on sporting with Gaurī.

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havyavāhamukhe kṣiptaṃ rudreṇāmitatejasā .
rudrasya retasā dagdhastīrthayātrākṛtādaraḥ .. 86.4 ..

It was cast into the mouth of the Carrier of Oblations by Rudra of unmeasured splendor. / Burned by the semen of Rudra, having undertaken pilgrimage to sacred fords with zeal,

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sāgarāṃśca nadīrgatvā kramādrevāṃ samāgataḥ .
cacāra parayā bhaktyā dhyānamugraṃ hutāśanaḥ .. 86.5 ..

having gone to oceans and rivers, he came in due course to the Revā. / With supreme devotion, the Fire-god practiced severe meditation.

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vāyubhakṣaḥ śataṃ sāgraṃ yāvattepe hutāśanaḥ .
tāvattuṣṭo mahādevo varado jātavedasaḥ .
saṃnidhau samupetyātha vacanaṃ cedamabravīt .. 86.6 ..

As long as the Fire-god practiced austerity, consuming only wind for a full hundred years, / so long [afterward] Mahādeva, pleased, the giver of boons to the all-knowing [Fire], / having approached his presence, spoke this word:

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īśvara uvāca -
varaṃ vṛṇīṣva havyāśa yaste manasi vartate .. 86.7 ..

Īśvara said: / Choose a boon, O devourer of oblations, whatever is in your mind.

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vahniruvāca -
namaste sarvalokeśa ugramūrte namo'stu te .
retasā tava saṃdagdhaḥ kuṣṭhī jāto maheśvara .
kṛpāṃ kuru mahādeva mama rogaṃ vināśaya .. 86.8 ..

Agni said: / Homage to you, O Lord of all the worlds! O fierce-formed one, homage to you! / Scorched by your semen, I have become a leper, O Maheśvara. / Have mercy, O Mahādeva; destroy my disease!

6.3.86.9

īśvara uvāca -
havyavāha bhavārogo matprasādācca satvaram .
atra tīrthe kṛtasnānaḥ svarūpaṃ pratipatsyase .. 86.9 ..

Īśvara said: / O Carrier of Oblations, become free of disease quickly through my grace. / Having taken a ritual ablution at this sacred ford, you will regain your natural form.

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ityuktvā ca mahādevastatraivāntaradhīyata .
anantaraṃ havyavāhaḥ sasnau revājale tvaran .. 86.10 ..

Having spoken thus, Mahādeva disappeared right there. / Immediately, the Carrier of Oblations swiftly bathed in the water of the Revā.

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tadaiva roganirmukto'bhavaddivyasvarūpavān .
sthāpayāmāsa deveśaṃ sa vahniḥ piṅgaleśvaram .. 86.11 ..

At that very moment, freed from disease, he came to possess a divine form. / That Fire installed the Lord of gods as Piṅgaleśvara.

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nāmnā saṃpūjayāmāsa tuṣṭāva stutibhirmudā .
tato jagāma deśaṃ svaṃ devānāṃ havyavāhanaḥ .. 86.12 ..

By name he worshipped him and joyfully praised him with hymns of praise. / Then the Carrier of Oblations went to the realm of the gods.

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havyavāhena bhūpaivaṃ sthāpitaḥ piṅgaleśvaraḥ .
jitakrodho hi yastatra upavāsaṃ samācaret .. 86.13 ..

Thus, O king, Piṅgaleśvara was installed by the Carrier of Oblations. / Indeed, whoever, with anger conquered, observes a fast there,

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atirāntraphalaṃ tasya ante rudratvamāpnuyāt .
guṇānvitāya viprāya kapilāṃ tatra bhārata .. 86.14 ..

his fruit is [that of] an Atirātra sacrifice, and in the end he attains the state of Rudra. / There [giving] a tawny cow to a virtuous brahmin, O descendant of Bharata,

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alaṃkṛtya savatsāṃ ca śaktyālaṅkārabhūṣitām .
yaḥ prayacchati rājendra sa gacchetparamāṃ gatim .. 86.15 ..

having adorned her along with her calf, adorned with ornaments according to one's means— / whoever gives [her], O chief of kings, goes to the supreme state.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe piṅgaleśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaḍaśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the eighty-sixth chapter, titled "Description of the Greatness of the Piṅgaleśvara Sacred Ford," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.