Skandapurana 6.3.87

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adhyāya 87

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchenmahīpāla tīrthaṃ paramaśobhanam .
sthāpitaṃ munisaṅghairyadbrahmavaṃśasamudbhavaiḥ .. 87.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O protector of the earth, one should go to the exceedingly beautiful sacred ford / which was established by assemblies of sages born of the lineage of Brahmā.

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ṛṇamocanamityākhyaṃ revātaṭasamāśritam .
ṣaṇmāsaṃ manujo bhaktyā tarpayan pitṛdevatāḥ .. 87.2 ..

[He should go] to the one named Ṛṇamocana, situated on the bank of the Revā. / A man who for six months, with devotion, offers oblations to the ancestors and gods,

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devaiḥ pitṛmanuṣyaiśca ṛṇamātmakṛtaṃ ca yat .
mucyate tatkṣaṇānmartyaḥ snāto vai narmadājale .. 87.3 ..

is immediately freed, as a mortal, once bathed in the water of the Narmadā, / from debts owed to gods, ancestors, and humans, as well as from those incurred by himself.

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pratyakṣaṃ duritaṃ tatra dṛśyate phalarūpataḥ .
tatra tīrthe tu yo rājannekacitto jitendriyaḥ .. 87.4 ..

There sin is visibly seen through the nature of its fruit. / But whoever at that sacred ford, O king, with single-minded focus and senses restrained,

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snātvā dānaṃ ca vai dadyādarcayedgirijāpatim .
ṛṇatrayavinirmukto nāke dīpyati devavat .. 87.5 ..

having bathed, makes gifts and worships the husband of the mountain's daughter, / is liberated from the three debts and shines in heaven like a god.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ṛṇatrayamocanatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptāśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the eighty-seventh chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford Ṛṇatrayamocana', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.