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Skandapurana 16.327

Skandapurāṇa 16.327

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16.327.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato mahodayaṃ gacchettasmādīśānasaṃsthitam .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / Then one should go to Mahodaya, situated to the northeast of that.

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16.327.2

vidhinā tatra yaḥ snāti tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ ..
pratigrahakṛtāddoṣānna bhayaṃ tasya vidyate .. 2 ..

Whoever bathes there according to rule and satisfies the ancestors and deities / has no fear arising from the fault of accepting gifts.

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16.327.3

mahodayaṃ mahānandadāyakaṃ ca dvijanmanām ..
pratigrahaprasaktānāṃ viṣayāsaktacetasām ..
teṣāmapi dadenmuktiṃ tena khyātaṃ mahodayam .. 3 ..

Mahodaya brings great joy to the twice-born; / even to those addicted to accepting gifts whose minds are attached to sensory objects, / it grants liberation: therefore it is celebrated as Mahodaya.

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16.327.4

tasya vai rakṣaṇārthāya mahākālasya cottare ..
niyuktāśca mahādevi mātarastatra saṃsthitāḥ ..
tasminsnātvā naraḥ pūrvaṃ mātṝstāśca prapūjayet .. 4 ..

Indeed, for its protection, to the north of Mahākāla, / the Mothers were appointed and remain there, O great goddess. / Having bathed there, a person should first worship those Mothers.

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16.327.5

evaṃ devi mayā khyātaṃ mahodayamahodayam ..
sarvapāpaharaṃ nṛṇāmabhiṣekācca muktidam .. 5 ..

Thus, O goddess, has been proclaimed by me the greatly fortunate Mahodaya, / which removes all sins of humans and gives liberation through ritual bathing.

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16.327.6

ardhakrośe ca tattīrthaṃ samaṃtātparimaṃḍalam ..
etanmadhyaṃ mahāsāraṃ sadaiva munivallabham .. 6 ..

That sacred ford measures half a krośa in circumference on all sides; / its center is of great excellence and ever dear to sages.

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16.327.327

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye mahodayamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma sapta viṃśatyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 327 ..

Thus ends the three hundred and twenty-seventh chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Mahodaya', in the first [part], the 'Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra', of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse collection.

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