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Skandapurana 16.344

Skandapurāṇa 16.344

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16.344.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ pāpapraṇāśanam ..
kapileśvarasyaiśānyāmuttareṇa vyavasthitam .. 1 ..

Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to the liṅga that destroys sins, / situated to the northeast and to the north of Kapileśvara,

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16.344.2

jaradgaveśvaraṃnāma jaradgavapratiṣṭhitam ..
brahmahatyādi pāpānāṃ nāśanaṃ nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 2 ..

named Jaradgaveśvara, installed by Jaradgava, / the destroyer of sins such as the killing of a brahmin; there is no doubt in this.

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16.344.3

tatraiva saṃsthitā devi devī aṃśumatī nadī ..
tatra snātvā vidhānena piḍadānaṃ tu dāpayet .. 3 ..

Right there is situated, O goddess, the divine river Aṃśumatī; / having bathed there according to the rule, one should offer the piṇḍa.

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16.344.4

varṣakoṭiśataṃ sāgraṃ pitṝṇāṃ tṛptimāvahet ..
vṛṣabhastatra dātavyo brāhmaṇe vedapārage .. 4 ..

It brings satisfaction to the ancestors for more than a hundred million years; / a bull should be given there to a brahmin who has crossed to the end of the Vedas.

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16.344.5

tatastu pūjayeddevaṃ gandhapuṣpairjaradgavam ..
pañcāmṛtarasenaiva tathā guggu ludhūpanaiḥ .. 5 ..

Then one should worship the god Jaradgava with fragrant pastes and flowers, / with the liquid of the five nectars, and with offerings of bdellium incense,

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16.344.6

stutidaṇḍanamaskāraiḥ pradakṣiṇairaharniśam ..
brāhmaṇānbhojayettatra bhakṣyabhojyaiḥ pṛthagvidhaiḥ ..
ekena bhojitenaiva koṭirbhavati bhojitā .. 6 ..

with praises, prostrations, and circumambulations, day and night; / one should feed brahmins there with different kinds of eatables and foods: / by feeding one alone, ten million are fed.

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16.344.7

kṛte siddhodakaṃnāma tattīrthaṃ parikīrttitam ..
jaradgaveśvaraṃ tīrthaṃ kalau tu parikīrtyate .. 7 ..

In the Kṛta age that sacred ford was known by the name Siddhodaka; / in the Kali age, however, it is celebrated as the Jaradgaveśvara sacred ford.

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16.344.344

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmyeṃ'śumatīmāhātmye jaradgaveśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 344 ..

Thus ends the three hundred and forty-fourth chapter, entitled “Description of the Greatness of Jaradgaveśvara in the Greatness of Aṃśumatī”, in the Greatness of the Prabhāsa Field, in the first [part] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand verses in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.

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