Skandapurana 6.3.96

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adhyāya 96

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra tīrthaṃ koṭīśvaraṃ param .
ṛṣikoṭiḥ samāyātā yatra vai kurunandana .. 96.1 ..

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / “Then one should proceed, O king of kings, to the supreme sacred ford Koṭīśvara, / where, O joy of the Kurus, a crore of seers arrived, 96.1

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kṛṣṇadvaipāyanasyaiva kṣemārthaṃ munipuṃgavāḥ .
mantrayitvā dvijaiḥ sarvairvedamaṅgalapāṭhakaiḥ .. 96.2 ..

for the welfare of Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana himself, O best of sages. / Having conferred with all the twice-born who recite the auspicious Vedic hymns, 96.2

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sthāpitaḥ śaṅkarastatra kāraṇaṃ bandhanāśanam .
saṃsāracchedakaraṇaṃ prāṇināmārtināśanam .. 96.3 ..

Śaṅkara was established there as the primal cause, destroyer of bondage, / the severer of cyclic existence, destroyer of the afflictions of living beings. 96.3

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koṭīśvaramiti proktaṃ pṛthivyāṃ nṛpanandana .
snāpayettaṃ tu yo bhaktyā pūrṇimāyāṃ nṛpottama .. 96.4 ..

It is called ‘Koṭīśvara’ on earth, O prince. / Whoever bathes him with devotion on a full-moon day, O best of kings, 96.4

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pitḥṇāṃ tarpaṇaṃ kṛtvā piṇḍadānaṃ yathāvidhi .
śrāvaṇasya viśeṣeṇa pūrṇimāyāṃ yudhiṣṭhira .. 96.5 ..

having offered libations to the ancestors and the offering of rice-balls according to rule, / especially on the full-moon day of Śrāvaṇa, O Yudhiṣṭhira, 96.5

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pitḥṇāmakṣayā tṛptiryāvadābhūtasamplavam .
pitḥṇāṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ revātaṭasamāśritam .
mokṣadaṃ sarvajantūnāṃ nirmitaṃ munisattamaiḥ .. 96.6 ..

the satisfaction of his ancestors is inexhaustible until the dissolution of all beings. / Established on the bank of the Revā, supreme secret of the ancestors, / it grants liberation to all living beings, constructed by the best of sages.” 96.6

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe koṭīśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṇṇavatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the ninety-sixth chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of the Koṭīśvara Tīrtha,’ in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.