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Skandapurana 14.61

Skandapurāṇa 14.61

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14.61.1

.. pulastya uvāca .. ..
gaṃgādharaṃ tato gacchetsupuṇyaṃ vimalodakam ..
yena gaṃgā dhṛtā rājannipatantī nabhastalāt .. 1 ..

Pulastya said: / Then one should go to Gaṅgādhara, very sacred, having clear waters, / by which Gaṅgā was held, O king, as she fell from the expanse of the sky, 1.

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14.61.2

āhūtā deva devena hyacaleśvararūpiṇā ..
hareṇa rabhasā rājanyatpurā kathitaṃ tava .. 2 ..

summoned impetuously, O king, by Hara, the god of gods, / in the form of Acaleśvara, as was told to you before. 2.

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14.61.3

tatra yaḥ kurute snānamaṣṭamyāṃ ca samāhitaḥ ..
sa gacchetparamaṃ sthānaṃ devai rapi sudurlabham .. 3 ..

Whoever, attentive in mind, performs a ritual ablution there on the eighth day [of the fortnight], / he shall go to the supreme abode, very difficult to attain even for the gods. 3.

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14.61.61

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe tṛtīya'rbudakhaṇḍe gaṃgādharatīrthamāhātmya varṇanaṃnāmaikaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 61 ..

Thus ends the sixty-first chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Gaṅgādharatīrtha,' in the third [section], the Arbudakhaṇḍa, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses. 61.

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