[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) › 16.229 # Skandapurana 16.229 Skandapurāṇa 16.229 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.229.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.229.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.229.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.229.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.229.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.229.229](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.229.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.229](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.229) · Pramāṇa