Skandapurana 16.229
Skandapurāṇa 16.229
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16.229.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi gaṃgāṃ tripathagāminīm ..
anarakeśato devi aiśānyāṃ diśi saṃsthitām .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the Gaṅgā that flows in three paths, / situated in the northeastern direction from Anarakeśa, O goddess.
16.229.2
svayaṃbhūtāṃ dharāmadhyādānītāṃ viṣṇunā purā ..
yādavānāṃ tu muktyarthaṃ sarvapāpopaśāntaye .. 2 ..
Self-manifested from the midst of the earth, she was formerly brought by Viṣṇu / for the liberation of the Yādavas and for the appeasement of all sins.
16.229.3
yastatra kurute snānaṃ kathaṃcitpuṇyasaṃcayāt ..
śrāddhaṃ caiva vidhānena na sa śocetkṛtākṛte .. 3 ..
Whoever takes a bath there somehow by an accumulation of religious merit, / and performs an ancestral offering according to the rules, does not grieve over what was done or left undone.
16.229.4
brahmāṇḍaṃ sakalaṃ dattvā yatpuṇyaphalamāpnuyāt ..
tatpuṇyaṃ prāpnuyāddevi kārtikyāṃ jāhnavījale .. 4 ..
The religious merit one would obtain by gifting the entire egg of Brahmā, / that merit he obtains, O goddess, in the water of the Jāhnavī on the full moon of Kārttika.
16.229.5
kalau yuge tu saṃprāpte durllabhaṃ tatra darśanam..
kiṃ punaḥ snānadānaṃ tu prabhāse jāhnavījale .. 5 ..
When the Kali age arrives, even seeing it is difficult to attain; / how much more so ritual ablution and charity in the waters of the Jāhnavī in Prabhāsa?
16.229.229
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye gaṃgāmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonatriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 229 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Gaṅgā', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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