[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) › 16.204 # Skandapurana 16.204 Skandapurāṇa 16.204 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.204.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.1) .. devyuvāca .. .. bhagavandevadeveśa saṃsārārṇavatāraka .. sarasvatyāśca māhātmyaṃ vistarātkathayasva me .. 1 .. > The goddess said: / O Lord, Lord of the gods of gods, Savior from the ocean of worldly existence, / tell me in detail the māhātmya of the Sarasvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.2) yātrāgatānāṃ deveśi puruṣāṇāṃ jitātmanām.. mukhadvāre tu kiṃ puṇyaṃ snānadāne ca śaṃkara .. 2 .. > What is the merit for men of restrained self who have come on pilgrimage, O Śaṃkara, / in bathing and making gifts at the mouth? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.3) avagāhanena cānyatra phalaṃ kiṃsvitprajāyate .. śrāddhasya kiṃ vidhānaṃ tu ke maṃtrāstatra ke dvijāḥ .. 3 .. > And what fruit is produced by bathing elsewhere? / What is the rule for the ancestral offering, what are the mantras there, and what brahmins \[should be invited\]? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.4) kiṃ grāhyaṃ kiñca bhoktavyaṃ brāhmaṇaiḥ śrāddhakarmaṇi .. kāni dānāni deyāni nṛbhiryātrā phalepsubhiḥ .. 4 .. > What is to be received and what is to be eaten by the brahmins in the rite of ancestral offerings? / What gifts are to be given by men desiring the fruit of the pilgrimage? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.5) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. śṛṇu devipravakṣyāmi dānaśrāddhavidhikramam .. sarasvatyāśca māhātmyaṃ kīrtyamānaṃ nibodha me .. 5 .. > Īśvara said: > Listen, O goddess, I shall explain the proper order of the rites of giving and śrāddha; / and learn from me the māhātmya of the Sarasvatī being proclaimed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.6) puṇyaṃ sārasvataṃ toyaṃ yatra tatrāvagāhyate .. sāgareṇa tu saṃmiśraṃ devānāmapi durlabham .. 6 .. > Meritorious is the water of the Sarasvatī wherever one immerses oneself; / but when mingled with the ocean, it is difficult to attain even for the gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.7) sarasvatī sarvanadīṣu puṇyā sarasvatī lokasukhāvagāhā .. sarasvatīṃ prāpya na duḥkhitā narāḥ sadā na śocaṃti paratra ceha vā .. 7 .. > The Sarasvatī is the most meritorious among all rivers; the Sarasvatī offers pleasant immersion for people. / Having reached the Sarasvatī, men are not afflicted; they never grieve, either in this world or the next. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.8) puṇyaṃ sārasvataṃ tīrthaṃ puṇyakṛllabhate naraḥ .. durlabhaṃ triṣu lokeṣu vaiśākhyā somaparvaṇi. .. 8 .. > A man who performs meritorious deeds obtains the sacred ford of the Sarasvatī; / on the full-moon day of Vaiśākha or on an occasion involving the Moon, it is rare to attain in the three worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.9) amā somena saṃyuktā yadi tatraiva labhyate .. tatra kiṃ kriyate devi parvakoṭiśatairapi .. 9 .. > If a new moon joined with Monday is attained right there, / what need is there, O goddess, of hundreds of millions of other sacred occasions? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.10) cāndrāyaṇāni kṛcchrāṇi mahāsāṃ tapanāni ca .. prāyaścittāni dīyante yatra nāsti sarasvatī ..7.1.204.10.. > The Cāndrāyaṇa penances, the Kṛcchra penances, and the Mahāsāṃtapana penances / are assigned as expiations where the Sarasvatī is absent. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.11) yāvadasthi śarīrasya tiṣṭhetsārasvate jale .. tāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi viṣṇuloke vase nnaraḥ .. jātyandhaiste samā jñeyā mṛtaiḥ paṃgubhireva ca .. 11 .. > As long as a bone of one's body rests in the water of the Sarasvatī, / for that many thousands of years a man resides in Viṣṇu's world. / Those who are able, yet do not look upon > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.12) samarthā ye na paśyanti prabhāsasthāṃ sarasvatīm .. te deśāstāni tīrthāni āśramāste ca parvatāḥ .. 12 .. > the Sarasvatī situated at Prabhāsa, are to be regarded as equal to the blind from birth, to the dead, and to the crippled. / Those regions, those sacred fords, those hermitages, and those mountains, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.13) yeṣāṃ sarasvatī devī madhye yāti saridvarā .. trailokyapāvanīṃ puṇyāṃ saṃśritā ye sarasvatīm .. saṃsārakardamāmodamājighranti na te punaḥ .. 13 .. > through the midst of which the goddess Sarasvatī, the best of rivers, flows, \[are blessed\]. / Those who take refuge in the holy Sarasvatī, the purifier of the three worlds, / never inhale the stench of the mire of worldly existence again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.14) śabdavidyeva vistīrṇā mataiva jagataḥ priyā .. satāṃ matiriva svacchā ramaṇīyā sarasvatī .. 14 .. > Vast as the science of grammar, dear to the world like a mother, / and pure as the intellect of the virtuous, delightful is the Sarasvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.15) trailokyaśobhitāṃ devīṃ divya toyāṃ sunirmalām.. sa nīco yaḥ pumānetāṃ na vandeta sarasvatīm .. 15 .. > The goddess who adorns the three worlds, whose waters are divine and exceedingly pure— / vile is the man who does not bow down to this Sarasvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.16) svarganiśreṇisaṃbhūtā prabhāse tu sarasvatī .. nāpuṇyavadbhiḥ saṃprāptuṃ puṃbhiḥ śakyā mahānadī .. 16 .. > The Sarasvatī at Prabhāsa has become a ladder to heaven; / this great river cannot be attained by men devoid of merit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.17) candrabhāgā ca gaṃgā ca tathā yatra sarasvatī .. devāste na manuṣyāste tisro nadyaḥ pibanti ye ..17.. > Where the Candrabhāgā, the Gaṅgā, and the Sarasvatī are present, / those who drink from those three rivers are gods, not human beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.18) satyameva mayā devi jāhnavī śirasā dhṛtā .. yāḥ kāścitsarito loke tāsāṃ puṇyā sarasvatī .. 18.. > Truly, O goddess, the Gaṅgā was borne on my head; / yet among whatever rivers exist in the world, the Sarasvatī is the most meritorious. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.19) darśanena sarasvatyā rājasūyo na rājate .. gaṃḍūṣaścāśvamedhādvai sarva kratuvaraṃ payaḥ ..19.. > In comparison with the darśana of the Sarasvatī, the Rājasūya sacrifice does not shine; / indeed, a mouthful of its water surpasses the Aśvamedha; its water is superior to all sacrifices. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.19\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.19_1) bhasmāsthicarmatoyāni nakhakeśādikāni ca .. vātairapi dhutānyeva tathā sārasvate jale ..7.1.204.2... > Whose ash, bones, skin, fluids, / and nails, hair, and the like, / shaken even by the winds, are carried in due course > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.21) vahanti yeṣāṃ kālena te na kāla vaśā narāḥ .. devi kiṃ bahunoktena varṇitena punaḥpunaḥ.. sarasvatyāḥ paraṃ tīrthaṃ na bhūtaṃ na bhaviṣyati ..21.. > into the water of the Sarasvatī, those men do not fall under the power of Death. / O goddess, what is the use of speaking much, of describing it again and again? / There has never been, nor will there ever be, a sacred ford superior to the Sarasvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.22) tatraiva durlabhaṃ snānaṃ yatra sāgarasaṃgamaḥ .. tatra snānena dānena koṭiyajñaphalaṃ labhet ..22.. > Rarest of all is the bath taken right where it joins the ocean; / by bathing and giving there, one obtains the fruit of ten million sacrifices. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.23) yatra sārasvataṃ toyaṃ sāgarormisamākulam .. tatra snāsyaṃti ye martyā bhāgyavanto yugeyuge ..23.. > Where the water of the Sarasvatī is churned by the waves of the ocean, / those mortals who bathe there in age after age are fortunate. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.24) te dhanyāste namaskāryāsteṣāṃ sphītataraṃ yaśaḥ .. yeṣāṃ kalevaraṃ nṝṇāṃ siktaṃ sārasvatairjalaiḥ .. 24 .. > They are blessed, they are worthy of veneration, their renown is most abundant, / the bodies of which men are sprinkled with the waters of the Sarasvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.204.204](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204.204) iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye sarasvatīsaṃgamamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma caturuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 204 .. cha .. > Thus ends the two hundred and fourth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Confluence of the Sarasvatī', in the first \[part\], the Māhātmya of the Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh \[book\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.204.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.204) · Pramāṇa