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Skandapurana 14.54

Skandapurāṇa 14.54

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14.54.1

.. pulastya uvāca .. ..
tatastripuṣkaraṃ gacchedabhīṣṭaṃ padmajasya ca ..
brahmaṇā tatsamānītaṃ parvate'rbudasaṃjñake .. 1 ..

Pulastya said: / Then one should go to Tripuṣkara, which is dear to the Lotus-Born [Brahmā]; / it was brought by Brahmā to the mountain named Arbuda.

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14.54.2

vasiṣṭhasya purā satre varttamāne narādhipa ..
tasminnage samāyātā brahmādyāśca surottamāḥ .. 2 ..

Formerly, while Vasiṣṭha's sacrificial session was underway, O ruler of men, / Brahmā and the foremost gods arrived at that mountain.

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14.54.3

pratijñātaṃ mahārāja brahmaṇā'vyaktajanmanā ..
yāvatsthāsye nṛloke'smiṃstāvatsandhyāṃ tripuṣkare ..
vaṃdayiṣyāmi saṃprāpte saṃdhyākāle samāhitaḥ .. 3 ..

A vow had been made, O great king, by Brahmā of unmanifest birth: / 'As long as I stay in this world of men, so long will I, composed in mind, / worship the twilight at Tripuṣkara when twilight time arrives.'

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14.54.4

etasminneva kāle tu prasthitaḥ puṣkaraṃ prati ..
saṃdhyārthaṃ padmajo yāvadvasiṣṭhastāvadabravīt .. 4 ..

Just at that time, as the Lotus-Born was setting out towards Puṣkara / for the twilight devotion, Vasiṣṭha said to him:

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14.54.5

.. vasiṣṭha uvāca .. ..
karmakālaśca samprāpto yajñe'sminsurasattama ..
sa vinā na tvayā deva siddhiṃ yāsyati karhicit .. 5..

Vasiṣṭha said: / 'The time for ritual actions has arrived in this sacrifice, O best of gods; / without you, O god, it will never reach completion.

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14.54.6

tasmādānaya cātraiva padmayone tripuṣkaram ..
saṃdhyopāstiṃ tataḥ kṛtvā tatra bhūyaḥ sureśvara ..
brahmatvaṃ kuru deveśa satre cāsmindayānidhe .. 6 ..

Therefore bring Tripuṣkara right here, O Lotus-Born. / Having performed the twilight worship there again, O Lord of gods, / act as the chief priest (brahman) in this sacrificial session, O Lord of gods, O store of compassion!'

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14.54.7

evamukto vasiṣṭhena brahmā loka pitāmahaḥ ..
dhyātvā tatrānayāmāsa jyeṣṭhamadhyakaniṣṭhikam ..
puṣkaratritayaṃ cāgātsupuṇye salilāśaye .. 7 ..

Addressed thus by Vasiṣṭha, Brahmā, the grandfather of the worlds, / meditated and brought there the senior, middle, and junior ones; / and the triad of Puṣkaras entered into a most holy reservoir of water.

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14.54.8

tataḥprabhṛti saṃjātamarbude'smiṃstripuṣkaram .. 8 ..

From that time onwards, Tripuṣkara came to be on this Arbuda.

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14.54.9

tatra yaḥ kārtike māsi paurṇamāsyāṃ samāhitaḥ ..
snānaṃ karoti dānaṃ ca tasya lokāḥ sanātanāḥ .. 9 ..

Whoever, composed in mind, bathes and gives gifts there / on the full-moon day in the month of Kārtika attains eternal worlds. // 9

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14.54.10

tasya cottaradigbhāge sāvitrīkuṇḍamuttamam ..
snānadānādikaṃ kurvanyatra yāti śubhāṃ gatim .. 7.3.54.10 ..

To the north of it is the excellent Sāvitrīkuṇḍa, / performing bath, gift-giving, and other rites at which one attains an auspicious realm. // 7.3.54.10

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14.54.54

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṃḍe tripuṣkaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuṣpaṃcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 54 .. ..

Thus ends the fifty-fourth chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of Tripuṣkara", in the third section, the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh book, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. // 54

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