Skandapurana 14.28
Skandapurāṇa 14.28
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14.28.1
.. pulastya uvāca .. ..
tato gacchennṛpaśreṣṭha supuṇyaṃ mānuṣaṃ hradam ..
yatra snāto naraḥ samyaṅmanuṣyo jāyate sadā .. 1 ..
Pulastya said:
Then one should go, O best of kings, to the very holy pool Mānuṣahrada,
where a man, properly bathed, is always born as a human.
14.28.2
na tiryaktvamavāpnoti kṛtvā'pi bahupātakam ..
tatrāścaryamabhūtpūrvaṃ yattacchṛṇu narādhipa .. 2 ..
Even having committed great sins, he does not attain an animal state.
A wonder happened there formerly; listen to that, O lord of men.
14.28.3
mṛgayūthamanuprāpta vyādhavyāptaṃ samantataḥ ..
te mṛgā bhayasantrastāḥ praviṣṭā jalamadhyataḥ .. 3 ..
A herd of deer arrived, completely surrounded by hunters.
Those deer, terrified with fear, entered into the midst of the water.
14.28.4
sadyo manuṣyatāṃ prāptāḥ pūrvajātismarāstathā ..
etasminneva kāle tu vyādhāste samupāgatāḥ .. 4 ..
Immediately they attained human state, and also remembered their previous births.
Just at that moment, those hunters arrived,
14.28.5
cāpabāṇadharāḥ sarve yathā vai yamakiṃkarāḥ ..
papracchuśca mṛgānbhūpa mānuṣatvamupāgatān .. 5 ..
all holding bows and arrows, just like the servants of Yama.
And they asked the deer, O king, who had attained human state:
14.28.6
mṛgayūthamanu prāptamasminsthāne jalāśraye ..
kena mārgeṇa tadyātaṃ vadadhvaṃ satvaraṃ hi naḥ ..
vayaṃ sarve pariśrāṃtāḥ kṣuttṛḍbhyāṃ ca viśeṣataḥ .. 6 ..
"A herd of deer reached this place beside the water.
By which path did it go? Tell us quickly!
We are all exhausted, especially from hunger and thirst."
14.28.7
.. manuṣyā ūcuḥ .. ..
vayaṃ te hariṇāḥ sarve mānuṣyaṃ bhāvamāśritāḥ ..
tīrthasyāsya prabhāveṇa satyametadasaṃśayam .. 7 ..
The men said:
"We are all those deer who have assumed human state
by the power of this sacred ford; this is the truth, without doubt."
14.28.8
.. pulastya uvāca .. ..
tataste śabarāḥ sarve tyaktvā cāpāni pārthiva ..
kṛtvā snānaṃ jale tasminsadyaḥ siddhiṃ gatā nṛpa .. 8 ..
Pulastya said:
Then all those Śabaras, casting away their bows, O king,
and performing a ritual ablution in that water, immediately attained perfection, O ruler of men.
14.28.9
tataḥ śakrastu taddṛṣṭvā tīrthaṃ pāpaharaṃ nṛpa ..
pūrayāmāsa sarvatra pāṃsubhirnṛpasattama .. 9 ..
Then Śakra, seeing that sin-removing sacred ford, O king,
filled it everywhere with dust, O best of kings.
14.28.10
adyāpi manujāstatra budhāṣṭamyāṃ narādhipa ..
snānaṃ ye prakariṣyaṃti tiryaktvaṃ na vrajaṃti te .. 7.3.28.10 ..
Even today, O lord of men, the humans who will perform a ritual ablution
there on a Wednesday eighth day [of the lunar fortnight] do not go to an animal state.
14.28.11
pitṛmedhaphalaṃ kṛtsnaṃ śrāddhadānādavāpnuyuḥ .. 11 ..
They obtain the entire fruit of a sacrifice to the ancestors from gifts and ancestral rites.
14.28.28
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṃḍe manuṣyatīrthaprabhāva varṇanaṃnāmāṣṭāviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 28 ..
Thus ends the twenty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Power of Manuṣyatīrtha', in the third [section], Arbudakhaṇḍa, in the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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