Skandapurana 16.314
Skandapurāṇa 16.314
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16.314.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
atha devakulāgneyyāṃ gavyūtyā tatra saṃsthitam ..
samudrasya taṭe ramyamṛṣitīrthamanuttamam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Now, south-east of Devakula, situated at a distance of one gavyūti, / on the shore of the ocean, is the charming, unsurpassed Ṛṣitīrtha.
16.314.2
pāṣāṇākṛtayastatra ṛṣayo'dyāpi saṃsthitāḥ ..
dṛśyaṃte mānuṣe devi sarvapātakanāśanāḥ .. 2 ..
There the ṛṣis, in the form of stones, remain even today. / They are seen in human form, O goddess, destroying all sins.
16.314.3
tatra jyeṣṭhe tvamāvāsyāṃ prāpyate nādhamairnnaraiḥ ..
piṃḍadānaṃ viśeṣeṇa snānaṃ śraddhāsamanvitaiḥ .. 3 ..
There, the new moon day in Jyeṣṭha cannot be attained by base men. / Offering of piṇḍas, and especially ritual ablution, should be performed by those endowed with faith.
16.314.4
ṛṣitoyāsaṃgame tu snānaṃ śrāddhaṃ sudurlabham ..
gopradānaṃ praśaṃsaṃti tatra te munipugavāḥ ..
bhojanaṃ brāhmaṇānāṃ tu yathāśaktyā pradāpayet ..4..
Ritual ablution and śrāddha at the confluence of the Ṛṣitoyā are exceedingly difficult to attain. / Those best among sages praise the gift of a cow there. / One should feed brahmins according to one's capacity.
16.314.314
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye mūlacaṃḍīśamāhātmya ṛṣitīrthasaṃgamamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma caturdaśottaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 314 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and fourteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Mūlacaṇḍīśa and the Confluence at Ṛṣitīrtha', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [book], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skandamahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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