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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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