[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 14.59 # Skandapurana 14.59 Skandapurāṇa 14.59 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [14.59.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.1) .. pulastya uvāca .. .. tato mahaujasaṃ gacchettīrthaṃ pātakanāśanam .. yasminsnāto naro rājaṃstejasā yujyate dhruvam .. brahmahatyāgninā śakraḥ purā dainyaṃ paraṃ gataḥ .. 1 .. > Pulastya said: / Then one should go to the Mahaujas sacred ford, which destroys sins, / bathing where a man is certainly endowed with splendor, O king. / Formerly, Śakra was brought to extreme distress by the fire of slaying a brahmin. // 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.2) niḥśrīkastejasā hīno durgandhena samanvitaḥ .. parityaktaḥ suraiḥ sarvairviṣādaṃ paramaṃ gataḥ .. 2 .. > Devoid of luster, bereft of splendor, accompanied by a foul odor, / abandoned by all the gods, he fell into supreme dejection. // 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.3) tataḥ papraccha devendro dvijaśreṣṭhaṃ bṛhaspatim .. bhagavaṃstejaso vṛddhiḥ kathaṃ syānme yathā purā .. 3 .. > Then the lord of the gods asked the foremost twice-born, Bṛhaspati: / ‘O venerable one, how might an increase in my splendor come about as before?’ // 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.4) .. bṛhaspatiruvāca .. .. tīrthayātrāṃ suraśreṣṭha kuruṣva dharaṇītale .. tīrthaṃ vinā dhruvaṃ vṛddhistejaso na bhaviṣyati ..4.. > Bṛhaspati said: / ‘Best of gods, undertake a pilgrimage to sacred fords on the surface of the earth; / without a sacred ford, there will surely be no increase of your splendor.’ // 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.5) tatastīrthānyanekāni bhrāṃtvā śakro narādhipa .. krameṇaivārbudaṃ prāptastatra dṛṣṭvā jalāśayam .. snānaṃ cakre tataḥ śrānto mahaujāḥ pratyapadyata .. 5 .. > Then, having wandered to many sacred fords, O king of men, / Śakra in due course reached Arbuda, and seeing a pool of water there, / the exhausted \[god\] took a bath; thereupon he regained great splendor. // 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.6) durgandhena vinirmuktastato devaiḥ samāvṛtaḥ .. uvāca prahasanvākyaṃ śṛṇudhvaṃ sarvadevatāḥ .. 6 .. > Completely freed from the foul odor and surrounded by the gods, / he smilingly spoke these words: ‘Listen, all deities! // 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.7) ye'tra snānaṃ kariṣyanti prāpte śakrocchraye sadā .. āśvine śuklapakṣāṃte te yāsyaṃti parāṃ gatim .. suśrīkāśca bhaviṣyaṃti sadā janmanijanmani .. 7 .. > Those who will bathe here whenever Śakra’s festival arrives, / at the end of the bright fortnight of Āśvina, shall attain the highest goal, / and they shall always be endowed with good fortune birth after birth.’ // 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [14.59.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59.59) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṃḍe mahaujasatīrthaprabhāvavarṇanaṃnāmaikonaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 59 .. > Thus ends the fifty-ninth chapter, entitled "Description of the Power of the Mahaujas Sacred Ford", in the third section, the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh book, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. // 59 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.59.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.59) · Pramāṇa