Skanda Purana 16.261
Skandapurāṇa 16.261
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16.261.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi yatra nyaṃkumatī nadī ..
maryādārthaṃ samānītā kṣetraśāṃtyai ca śaṃbhunā .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to where the Nyaṅkumatī river is, / brought by Śambhu to mark the boundary and for the peace of the sacred field.
16.261.2
tasyaiva dakṣiṇe bhāge sarvapāpapraṇāśinī ..
tasyāṃ snātvā ca vai samyagyaḥ śrāddhaṃ kurute naraḥ ..
sa pitṝṃstārayetsarvānnarakānnātra saṃśayaḥ .. 2 ..
In its southern part, it destroys all sins. / Having properly bathed in it, whatever man performs a śrāddha / delivers all his ancestors from hell, without doubt.
16.261.3
vaiśākhe śuklapakṣe tu tṛtīyāyāṃ ca bhāmini ..
snātvā tu tarpayedbhaktyā tiladarbhajalaiḥ priye ..
śrāddhaṃ kṛtaṃ bhavettena gaṃgāyāṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 3 ..
In the month of Vaiśākha, on the third day of the bright fortnight, O passionate woman, / having bathed and offered libations with devotion using water, sesame seeds, and darbha grass, O beloved, / by him a śrāddha has been performed at the Gaṅgā, without doubt.
16.261.261
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye nyaṃkumatīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikaṣaṣṭyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 261 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-first chapter, entitled “The Description of the Māhātmya of Nyaṅkumatī,” 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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