Skandapurana 14.45
Skandapurāṇa 14.45
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14.45.1
.. pulastya uvāca.. ..
devakhātaṃ tato gacchetsupuṇyaṃ tīrthamuttamam ..
yatkhyātirvibudhaiḥ sarvaiḥ svayameva vyadhīyata .. 1 ..
Pulastya said: / 'Then one should go to Devakhāta, an exceedingly holy, supreme tīrtha,
whose renown was created by all the gods themselves.
14.45.2
tatra yaḥ kurute śrāddhamamāvāsyāṃ viśeṣataḥ ..
kanyāgate ravau rājansa labhetparamaṃ padam ..
pitṝnsa tārayatyeva prāptānapi sudurgatim.. 2 ..
Whoever performs a śrāddha there, especially on the new moon day
when the sun has entered Virgo, O king, attains the supreme abode; / he indeed delivers his ancestors even if they have fallen into an evil state.'
14.45.45
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṇḍe śrīdevakhātotpattimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma paṃcacatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 45 ..
Thus ends the forty-fifth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Origin and Māhātmya of the Holy Devakhāta,' 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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