Skandapurana 6.3.91

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adhyāya 91

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchenmahīpāla tīrthaparamapāvanam .
caṇḍādityaṃ nṛpaśreṣṭha sthāpitaṃ caṇḍamuṇḍayoḥ .. 91.1 ..

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the supremely purifying sacred ford / Caṇḍāditya, O best of kings, established by Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa.

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āstāṃ purā mahādaityau caṇḍamuṇḍau sudāruṇau .
narmadātīramāśritya ceraturvipulaṃ tapaḥ .. 91.2 ..

Formerly there were two very terrible great Daityas, Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa. / Resorting to the bank of the Narmadā, they performed extensive austerity,

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dhyāyantau bhāskaraṃ devaṃ tamonāśaṃ jagattraye .
tuṣṭastattapasā devaḥ sahasrāṃśuruvāca ha .. 91.3 ..

meditating upon the Sun god, who destroys darkness in the three worlds. / Pleased by their austerity, the thousand-rayed god spoke:

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sādhu sādhviti tau pārtha narmadāyāḥ śubhe taṭe .
varaṃ prārthayataṃ vīrau yatheṣṭaṃ cetasecchitam .. 91.4 ..

"Well done, well done!" to the two, O Pārtha, on the auspicious bank of the Narmadā. / "Choose a boon, O heroes, according to your desire, whatever your mind wishes."

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caṇḍamuṇḍāvūcatuḥ .
ajeyau sarvadevānāṃ bhūyāsvāvāṃ samāhitau .
sarvarogaiḥ parityaktau sarvakālaṃ divākara .. 91.5 ..

Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa said: / "May we two be unconquerable by all the gods, focused in mind, / and free from all diseases at all times, O Sun!"

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evamastviti tau prāha bhāskaro vāritaskaraḥ .
ityuktvāntardadhe bhānurdaityābhyāṃ tatra bhāskaraḥ .. 91.6 ..

"So be it!" the Sun, the stealer of water, said to them. / Having spoken thus, the Sun vanished there before the two Daityas.

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sthāpitaḥ parayā bhaktyā taṃ gacchedātmasiddhaye .
gīrvāṇāṃśca manuṣyāṃśca pitḥṃstatrāpi tarpayet .. 91.7 ..

Established by them with supreme devotion, one should go to it for one's own perfection. / One should satisfy gods, humans, and ancestors there as well.

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sa vasedbhāskare loke viriñcidivasaṃ nṛpa .
ghṛtena bodhayeddīpaṃ ṣaṣṭhyāṃ sa ca nareśvara .
mucyate sarvapāpaistu pratiyāti puraṃ raveḥ .. 91.8 ..

He dwells in the world of the Sun for a day of Brahmā, O king. / And whoever lights a lamp with ghee on the sixth day, O lord of men, / is freed from all sins and goes to the city of the Sun.

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utpattiṃ caṇḍabhānoryaḥ śṛṇoti bharatarṣabha .
vijayī sa sadā nūnamādhivyādhivivarjitaḥ .. 91.9 ..

Whoever hears the origin of Caṇḍabhānu, O bull of the Bharatas, / is surely always victorious and free from mental agony and physical disease.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe caṇḍādityatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikanavatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the ninety-first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Caṇḍādityatīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.