Skandapurana 16.367.p31

16.367.p31

29 agnitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaprastāve prathamaṃ padmakatīrthe snātvā vapanādikaṃ vidhāya punaḥ snānādikaraṇena someśvaratīrthasnānato'pi dviguṇaphalakathanam, strīṇāṃ kṣurakarma-vapananiṣedhavarṇanam, strīṇāṃ sarvānkeśānuddhṛtyāṃguladvayavicchedakaraṇavarṇanam, vapanādividhāyakasaptasthānānāṃ varṇanam, vapanaṃ vinā mahodadhisparśananiṣedhavarṇanam, samaṃtrakasnānottaraṃ tarpaṇādividhikathanam, tatra vṛṣabhādidānaphalamāhātmyavarṇanam, dvijaśāpapradānena sāgarasyāspṛśyatvadoṣavṛttāntavarṇanam , tatra devairdīrghasatre samārabdhe dvijājñābhaṅgabhayāttaiḥ śaraṇyaṃ sāgaraṃ matvā tatrābdhau svasvadehānāṃ gopanakaraṇam, samudreṇa māṃsādinā brāhmaṇebhyo bhojanadānātteṣāṃ māṃsabhakṣaṇadoṣeṇākāśagatinirodhe jāte sati tairbrāhmaṇaiḥ 'apeyatvaṃ te bhūyāt iti samudrasya śāpadānakathanam , samudreṇa brāhmaṇaprārthanākaraṇam, vaḍavānalasaṃjñakatīrthasthāpanavṛttāntavarṇanam.. 49 1

29 On the occasion of describing the majesty of Agnitīrtha, statement that by bathing first in Padmakatīrtha, undergoing shaving and the like, and bathing again, one obtains double the fruit of even bathing at the Someśvara sacred ford; description of the prohibition of shaving and hair-cutting for women; description of cutting off two fingers' width of all the hair lifted up for women; description of the seven places that prescribe shaving and other rites; description of the prohibition of touching the great ocean without shaving; statement of the rules of libations and other rites after ritual ablution with mantras; description of the fruit and majesty of gifts such as bulls there; narrative of the fault of untouchability of the ocean by the pronouncement of a curse by brahmins; when a long sacrificial session was begun there by the gods, out of fear of violating the brahmins' command they considered the ocean a refuge and hid their bodies there in the ocean; when the brahmins' power to travel in the sky was blocked by the fault of eating meat because the ocean had provided food with meat and other things to the brahmins, statement of the curse given to the ocean by those brahmins, 'May you become undrinkable'; the ocean's supplication of the brahmins; narrative of the establishment of the sacred ford named Vaḍavānala. 49 1