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Skandapurana 16.159

Skandapurāṇa 16.159

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16.159.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi ratnakuṇḍamanuttamam ..
ratneśāddakṣiṇe bhāge dhanuṣāṃ saptake sthitam ..
mahāpāpopaśamanaṃ viṣṇunā nirmitaṃ svayam .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the unsurpassed Ratnakuṇḍa, / situated on the southern side of Ratneśa at a distance of seven bows, / which alleviates great sins and was fashioned by Viṣṇu himself.

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16.159.2

aṣṭakoṭīstu tīrthāni bhūdyo'ntarikṣagāṇi tu ..
samānīya tu kṛṣṇena tatra kṣiptāni bhūriśaḥ .. 2 ..

Eighty million sacred fords moving on earth, in heaven, and in the atmosphere / were brought together by Kṛṣṇa and cast there in abundance.

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16.159.3

gaṇānāṃ koṭirekā tu tatkuṇḍaṃ rakṣati priye ..
kalau yuge tu saṃprāpte duṣprāpyamakṛtātmabhiḥ .. 3 ..

A crore of Gaṇas protects that kuṇḍa, O beloved; / when the Kali age has arrived, it is hard to attain for those whose minds are undisciplined.

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16.159.4

tatra snātvā mahādevi vidhidṛṣṭena karmaṇā ..
prāpnuyādaśvamedhasya phalaṃ śataguṇottaram .. 4 ..

Having bathed there, O great goddess, by an act observed according to rule, / one attains a hundredfold the fruit of a horse sacrifice.

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16.159.5

ekādaśyāṃ viśeṣeṇa piṃḍaṃ tatra pradāpayet ..
akṣayyāṃ tṛptimāyāṃti pitarastasya bhāmini .. 5 ..

Especially on the eleventh lunar day, one should offer the piṇḍa there; / his ancestors attain imperishable satisfaction, O passionate woman.

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16.159.6

kuryājjāgaraṇaṃ tatra ekādaśyāṃ vidhānataḥ ..
vāñchitaṃ labhate devi yadi śraddhā dṛḍhā bhavet .. 6 ..

One should keep a night-vigil there on the eleventh lunar day according to rule; / one obtains what is desired, O goddess, if one's faith is firm.

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16.159.7

deyāni pītavastrāṇi tathā dhenuḥ payasvinī ..
tatra viṣṇuṃ samuddiśya samyagyātrāphalāptaye .. 7 ..

Yellow clothes should be given, as well as a milch cow, / there in honour of Viṣṇu, for attaining the full fruit of the pilgrimage.

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16.159.8

hemakuṇḍaṃ kṛte proktaṃ tretāyāṃ raupyanāmakam ..
dvāpare cakrakuṃḍaṃ tu ratnakuṃḍaṃ kalau smṛtam .. 8 ..

In the Kṛta age it is called Hemakuṇḍa, in the Tretā age named Raupya; / in the Dvāpara age it is Cakrakuṇḍa, and in the Kali age it is remembered as Ratnakuṇḍa.

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16.159.9

pātālavāhinīgaṃgā srotāṃsi tatra bhūriśaḥ ..
samānītāni hariṇā tatra tiṣṭhaṃti bhāmini .. 9 ..

Numerous streams of the Gaṅgā flowing in Pātāla / were brought there by Hari and remain there, O passionate woman.

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16.159.10

tatra snānena deveśi sarvatīrthābhiṣecanam .. 7.1.159.10 ..

By bathing there, O ruler of the gods, there is ablution in all sacred fords.

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16.159.159

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye ratneśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ- nāmaikonaṣaṣṭyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..159..

Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-ninth chapter, named "Description of the Greatness of Ratneśvara", in the first [part], the "Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya", in the seventh section, the "Prabhāsakhaṇḍa", of the glorious Skandamahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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