Skandapurana 16.238
Skandapurāṇa 16.238
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16.238.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi hiraṇyāṃ pāpanāśinīm ..
sarvakāmapradāṃ puṇyāṃ dāridryasyāṃtakāriṇīm .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Next, O great goddess, one should go to the Hiraṇyā, which destroys sin, / grants all desires, is sacred, and puts an end to poverty.
16.238.2
tatra snātvā vidhānena kṛtvā piṃḍodaka kriyām ..
prāpnuyādakṣayām̐llokānpitṝnuddhṛtya pāpataḥ ..2..
Having bathed there according to the rules and performed the rite of rice balls and water, / having delivered the ancestors from sin, one attains imperishable worlds.
16.238.3
ekaṃ yo bhojayettatra brāhmaṇaṃ śaṃsitavratam ..
tenāyutasahasraṃ hi bhojitaṃ syāddvijanmanām .. .. 3 ..
Whoever feeds a single brahmin of commended vows there, / by him ten thousand twice-born persons would indeed be fed.
16.238.4
tatra hemarathā deyo brāhmaṇe vedapārage ..
vidhinā śivamuddiśya yātrāyutaphalaṃ labhet .. 4 ..
A golden chariot should be given there to a brahmin who has mastered the Vedas, / dedicated to Śiva in accordance with the rule; one obtains the fruit of ten thousand pilgrimages.
16.238.238
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyā saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye hiraṇyānadīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmāṣṭātriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 238 ..
Thus ends the two hundred thirty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the River Hiraṇyā', in the first [part], the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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