Skandapurana 14.44
Skandapurāṇa 14.44
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14.44.1
pulastya uvāca ..
tato gacchennṛpaśreṣṭha gajatīrthamanuttamam ..
yatra pūrvaṃ tapastaptaṃ diggajairbhāvitātmabhiḥ .. 1 ..
Pulastya said: / 'Then, O best of kings, one should go to the unsurpassed Gajatīrtha,
where austerity was formerly performed by the self-controlled directional elephants,
14.44.2
bhūbhāradharaṇaiścānyairairāvaṇamukhairnṛpa ..
tatra snāto naraḥ samyaggajadānaphalaṃ labhet .. 2 ..
the bearers of the earth's burden, headed by Airāvaṇa and others, O king.
A man who has performed ritual ablution there properly obtains the fruit of gifting an elephant.'
14.44.44
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṇḍe gajatīrthaprabhāvavarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 44 ..
Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Power of Gajatīrtha,' in the Arbuda Section, the third [part] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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