[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 17.12 # Skandapurana 17.12 Skandapurāṇa 17.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [17.12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.1) .. sārasvata uvāca .. .. gaṃgodakaṃ madhughṛte kuṃkumāgurucaṃda nam .. guggulaṃ bilvapatrāṇi bakapuṣpaṃ ca yo vahet .. 1 .. > Sārasvata said: / Gaṅgā water, honey, ghee, saffron, agallochum, sandalwood, / bdellium, bilva leaves, and bakula flowers—whoever carries these; 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.2) padacārī śucitanurbhāraṃ skandhe nidhāya ca .. tīrthe snātvā śivaṃ viṣṇuṃ brahmāṇaṃ śaṃkaraṃ priyam .. 2 .. > walking on foot, pure in body, placing the load upon his shoulder, / having bathed at the sacred ford, and having seen Śiva, Viṣṇu, Brahmā, and dear Śaṃkara; 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.3) dṛṣṭvā nivedayedyastu sa muktaḥ sarvabandhanaiḥ .. sa naro gaṇatāṃ yāti yāvadābhūtasaṃplavam .. 3 .. > whoever offers \[these\] is released from all bonds; / that man attains the status of an attendant until the dissolution of all beings. 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.4) kalatramitraputrairvā bhrātṛbhiḥ svajanairnaraiḥ .. sahito vā narairyāti tīrthe devaṃ viciṃtya ca .. 4 .. > Whether accompanied by wife, friends, sons, brothers, kinsmen, / or along with other men, he goes to the sacred ford meditating on the Lord; 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.5) devamūrtiṃ śubhāṃ kṛtvā rathasthāṃ supratiṣṭhitām .. candanāgurukarpūrairarcitāṃ kuṃkumena ca .. 5 .. > having fashioned an auspicious divine image, placed upon a chariot and well consecrated, / worshipped with sandalwood, agallochum, camphor, and saffron; 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.6) pūjayanvividhaiḥ puṣpairdhūpadīpādikairnṛpa .. gītanṛtyaiḥ savāditrairhāsyalāsyairanekadhā .. 6 .. > worshipping \[it\] with various flowers, incense, lamps, and the like, O king, / with singing, dancing, instruments, and varied playful dances; 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.7) dharitrīṃ kāṃcanaṃ gāśca jalānnavasanāni ca .. tṛṇendhane priyāṃ vāṇīṃ yacchanyāti naro yadi .. 7 .. > if a man goes giving land, gold, cows, water, food, garments, / grass, firewood, and kind words; 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.8) devāṃganākaragrāhagṛhīto nandanaṃ vanam .. prāpya bhuṃkte śubhānbhogānyāvadācandratārakam .. 8 .. > taken by the hand by divine maidens, reaching the Nandana grove, / he enjoys auspicious pleasures as long as the moon and stars endure. 8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.9) tīrthe saṃcaritaḥ puruṣo rogaiḥ prāṇānvimuñcati .. adṛṣṭvā daivataṃ tīrthe dṛṣṭatīrthaphalaṃ labhet .. 9 .. > If a man wandering in a sacred ford gives up his life through diseases, / even without seeing the deity at the sacred ford, he obtains the fruit of having seen the sacred ford. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.10) saṃsāradoṣānvividhānvicintya strīputramitreṣvapi baṃdhamuktaḥ .. vijñāya baddhaṃ puruṣaṃ pradhānaiḥ sa sarvatīrthāni karoti deham .. 7.2.12.10 .. > Having reflected upon the various defects of saṃsāra, freed from attachment even toward wife, sons, and friends, / and knowing the soul to be bound by the primary elements, he turns his very body into all the sacred fords. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.11) ājanmajanmāṃntarasaṃcitāni dagdhvā sa pāpāni naro narendra .. tejomayaṃ sarvagataṃ purāṇaṃ bhavodbhavaṃ paśyati mucyate saḥ ..11.. > Having burned away the sins accumulated throughout this birth and other births, O king of men, / he beholds the luminous, all-pervading, ancient source of existence, and is liberated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.12) tīrthe vipravaco grāhyaṃ snātvā saṃdhyārcanādikam .. darbhāstilā haviṣyānnaṃ prayogāḥ śraddhayā kṛtāḥ ..12.. > At a sacred ford, the word of a brahmin should be received; having bathed, performing twilight worship and the like, / with darbha grass, sesame seeds, sacrificial grain, and rites performed with faith; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.13) agastyaṃ bhṛṅgarājaṃ ca puṣpaṃ śatadalaṃ śubham .. karpūrāguruśrīkhaṃḍaṃ kuṃkumaṃ tulasīdalam .. 13 .. > with Agastya and Bhṛṅgarāja \[flowers\], the auspicious hundred-petaled lotus, / camphor, agallochum, sandalwood, saffron, and a tulasī leaf; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.14) bilvapramāṇapiṃḍeṣu dīpoddyotitabhūmiṣu .. tāṃbūla phalanaivedyaṃ tiladarbhodakena ca .. 14 .. > with rice balls the size of bilva fruits upon grounds illuminated by lamps, / with betel, fruit-offerings, and water with sesame and darbha grass. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.15) tīrthe saṃkalpitaṃ martyaistadanaṃtaṃ prajāyate .. ayane viṣuve caiva saṃkrāṃtau grahaṇeṣu ca .. 15 .. > Whatever is dedicated by mortals at a sacred ford becomes endless: / at the solstices, the equinoxes, the solar transitions, and during eclipses; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.16) māsāṃte'para pakṣe tu kṣayāhe pitṛmātṛke .. gajacchāyāṃ trayodaśyāṃ dravye prāptau dvijottamaḥ .. 16 .. > at the end of the month, during the dark fortnight, on the death anniversary of father or mother, / during the elephant's shadow, on the thirteenth day, or when wealth is obtained, O best of the twice-born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.17) gṛhe śrāddhaṃ prakurvīta pitṝṇāmṛṇamuktaye .. gṛhācchataguṇaṃ nadyāṃ yā nadī yāti sāgaram .. 17 .. > One should perform a śrāddha at home for release from the debt to the ancestors; / \[the merit is\] a hundred times greater than at home at a river that flows to the ocean. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.18) prabhāse puṣkare rājangaṃgāyāṃ piṃḍatārake .. prayāge nṛpagomatyāṃ bhavadāmodarāgrataḥ .. 18 .. > At Prabhāsa, at Puṣkara, O king, at the Gaṅgā, at Piṇḍatāraka, / at Prayāga, O king, at the Gomatī, before Bhava and Dāmodara; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.19) narmadādiṣu tīrtheṣu kuryācchrāddhaṃ naro yadi .. sarvapāpavinirmuktaḥ pitaro yāṃti sadgatim.. 19 .. > if a man should perform a śrāddha at the sacred fords such as the Narmadā, / he is fully freed from all sins, and his ancestors attain the good realm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.20) saṃtānamuttamaṃ labdhvā bhuktvā bhogānanuttamān .. divyaṃ vimānamāruhya prānte yāti surālayam.. 7.2.12.20 .. > Having obtained excellent progeny and enjoyed unsurpassed pleasures, / he ascends a divine aerial chariot and at the end goes to the abode of the gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.21) jātakarmādiyajñeṣu vivāhe yajñakarmaṇi .. devapratiṣṭhāprāraṃbhe vṛddhiśrāddhaṃ prakalpayet .. 21 .. > In rites such as the birth ceremonies, at marriages, during sacrifices, / and at the commencement of the consecration of a deity, one should perform a vṛddhiśrāddha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.22) tṛpyanti devatāḥ sarvā stṛpyaṃti pitaro nṛṇām.. vṛddhiśrāddhakṛto gehe jāyate sarvamaṃgalam .. 22 .. > All the deities are satisfied, and the ancestors of men are satisfied; / all auspiciousness arises in the house of one who performs a vṛddhiśrāddha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.23) kāmaḥ krodhaśca lobhaśca moho madyamadādayaḥ .. māyā mātsaryapaiśunyamaviveko vicāraṇā .. 23 .. > Desire, anger, greed, delusion, intoxication from liquor and other causes, / deceit, envy, slander, lack of discernment, overthinking, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.24) ahaṃkāro yadṛcchā ca cāpalyaṃ laulyatā nṛpa .. atyāyāsopyanāyāsaḥ pramādo drohasāhasam .. 24 .. > arrogance, self-will, fickleness, longing, O king, / excessive exertion, total indolence, negligence, treachery, recklessness, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.25) ālasyaṃ dīrghasūtratvaṃ paradāropasevanam .. alpāhāro nirāhāraḥ śokaścauryaṃ nṛpottama .. 25 .. > laziness, procrastination, consorting with another's wife, / eating too little, total fasting, grief, theft, O best of kings— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.26) etāndoṣāngṛhe nityaṃ varjayanyadi vartate .. sa naro maṇḍanaṃ bhūmerdeśasya nagarasya ca .. 26 .. > if one lives at home continually avoiding these defects, / that man is an ornament to the earth, to the country, and to the city. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.27) śrīmānvidvānkulīno'sau sa eva puruṣottamaḥ .. sarvatīrthābhiṣekaśca nityaṃ tasya prajāyate .. 27 .. > He is fortunate, learned, of noble birth, he alone is the best of men; / the ablution of all the sacred fords is daily accomplished for him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.28) tadā tīrthaphalaṃ samyaktyaktadoṣasya jāyate .. snānaṃ sandhyā japo homaḥ pitṛdevarṣitarpaṇam .. śrāddhaṃ devasya pūjā ca tyaktadoṣasya jāyate .. 28 .. > Then the fruit of the sacred ford is fully realized for one who has abandoned defects; / bathing, twilight prayers, silent recitation, fire offerings, libations to ancestors, gods, and seers, / śrāddha, and worship of the deity are fruitful for one who has abandoned defects. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.29) prayāge vā kurukṣetre sarasvatyāṃ ca sāgare .. gayāyāṃ vā rudrapade naranārāyaṇāśrame .. 29 .. > Whether at Prayāga, or at Kurukṣetra, and at the Sarasvatī, or at the ocean, / or at Gayā, at Rudrapada, or at the hermitage of Nara and Nārāyaṇa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.30) prabhāse puṣkare kṛṣṇe gomatyāṃ piṃḍatārake .. vastrāpathe girau puṇye tathā dāmodare nṛpa .. 7.2.12.30 .. > at Prabhāsa, at Puṣkara, at Kṛṣṇā, at the Gomatī, at Piṇḍatāraka, / in Vastrāpatha on the holy mountain, and likewise at Dāmodara, O king, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.31) bhīmeśvare narmadāyāṃ skāṃde rāmeśvarādiṣu .. ujjayinyāṃ mahākāle vārāṇasyāṃ ca bhūrbhuvaḥ .. 31 .. > at Bhīmeśvara, on the Narmadā, at Skānda, at Rāmeśvara and others, / in Ujjayinī at Mahākāla, and at Vārāṇasī, \[which encompass\] the earth and atmosphere, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.32) kāliṃdyāṃ mathurāyāṃ ca sakṛdyāti naro yadi .. sadoṣo mucyate doṣairbrahmahatyādibhiḥ kṛtaiḥ .. .. 32 .. > at the Kālindī and at Mathurā, if a man goes even once, / \[though\] tainted with fault, he is freed from faults committed, such as the killing of a brahmin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.33) api kīṭaḥ pataṃgo vā pakṣī vā sūkaro'pi vā .. kharoṣṭrakuṃjarā vājimṛgasiṃhasarīsṛpāḥ .. 33 .. > Even a worm, a moth, a bird, or a hog, / donkeys, camels, elephants, horses, deer, lions, reptiles, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.34) jñānato'jñānato rājaṃsteṣu sthā neṣu ye mṛtāḥ .. sarve te puṇyakarmāṇaḥ svargaṃ bhuktvā sukhaṃ bahu .. 34 .. > those who die in these places knowingly or unknowingly, O king, / all of them are performers of meritorious deeds; having enjoyed great happiness in heaven, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.35) caturvarṇeṣu sarve te jāyaṃte karmabaṃdhanāt .. karmabaṃdhaṃ vihāyāśu muktiṃ yāṃti narāḥ punaḥ .. 35 .. > all of them are born among the four castes by virtue of their karmic bond; / leaving behind the bond of karma, those men quickly attain liberation again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.36) modaṃte tīrthamaraṇātsvargabhogāvasānataḥ .. saṃprāpya bhārate khaṃḍe karmabhūmiṃ mahodayam .. 36 .. > They rejoice on account of death at a sacred ford, after the enjoyment of heaven has ended, / having reached the land of action, the great fortune, in the continent of Bhārata. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.37) anekāścaryasaṃyuktaṃ bahuparvatamaṃḍitam .. gaṃgāyāḥ saritaḥ sarvāḥ samudraiḥ saha saṃgatāḥ .. 37 .. > Endowed with many wonders, adorned with many mountains, / where all the rivers of the Gaṅgā unite with the oceans, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.38) padepade nidhānāni saṃti tīrthānyanekaśaḥ .. yeṣāṃ smaraṇamātreṇa sarvapāpakṣayo bhavet .. 38 .. > at every step there are treasures, countless sacred fords, / by the mere remembrance of which the destruction of all sins occurs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.39) pātālamārgā bahavaḥ svargamārgaśca dṛśyate .. gagane dṛśyate sūryo hṛdaye dṛśyate haraḥ .. 39 .. > Many are the paths to Pātāla, and the path to heaven is seen; / in the sky the sun is seen, in the heart Hara is seen. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.40) dhyānena jñānayogena tapasā vacasā guroḥ .. satyena sāhasenaiva dṛśyate bhuvanatrayam .. 7.2.12.40 .. > Through meditation, the yoga of knowledge, austerity, the words of the guru, / through truth, and through sheer courage, the three worlds are perceived. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.41) vedasmṛtipurāṇaiśca ye na paśyaṃti bhūtalam .. pātālaṃ svargalokaṃ ca vaṃcitāste narā iha .. 41 .. > Those who do not see the surface of the earth, / Pātāla, and the heavenly world through the Vedas, the Smṛtis, and the Purāṇas, are deceived men in this world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.42) ye virajyaṃti na strīṣu kāmāsaktā vicetasaḥ .. dehonyathā varastrīṇāmanyathā taiśca ciṃtitam .. 42 .. > Those who do not turn away from women, attached to desire, devoid of reason— / the body of beautiful women is one thing, and it was conceived differently by them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.43) janmabhūmiṣu te raktā janyaṃte jaṃtavaḥ punaḥ .. muktimārgātpunarbhraṣṭā jāyaṃte paśuyoniṣu .. 43 .. > Those creatures, attached to their birthplaces, are born again; / fallen again from the path of liberation, they are born into animal wombs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.44) dhanāni saṃprāpya varāṭikāṃ ye dvijātimukhyāya vidhāya pūjām .. yacchaṃti no nirmalacetanā ye narādhamā daivahatā mṛtāste .. 44 .. > Those who, having acquired wealth, do not offer even a cowrie to the foremost of the twice-born after performing worship, / those vile men of tainted thought, struck by fate, are as good as dead. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.45) dehaṃ supuṣṭaṃ vijaraṃ ca yauvanaṃ labdhvā na gaṃgādiṣu yāṃti ye narāḥ .. mātā pitā no na suto na bāṃdhavo bhāryā svasā no duhitā na vidyate .. 45 .. > Those men who, having obtained a well-nourished body and youth free from old age, do not go to the Gaṅgā and other \[places\]— / there is no mother, no father, no son, no kinsman, no wife, no sister, no daughter \[who goes with them\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.46) ekastu yo yāti kathaṃ na kliśyate mūrkho na jānāti bhavaṃ maheśvaram .. snātvā na paśyaṃti haraṃ maheśvaraṃ daivena te vai muṣitā narādhamāḥ .. 46 .. > How can one who goes alone not suffer? The fool does not know Bhava, the great Lord. / Having bathed, they do not behold Hara, the great Lord; those vile men are indeed robbed by fate. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.12.46\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12.46_1) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe dvitīye vastrāpathakṣetramāhātmye yātrā vidhivarṇanaṃnāma dvādaśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 12 .. > Thus ends the twelfth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Rules of Pilgrimage', in the Glorification of the Sacred Field of Vastrāpatha, in the second \[sub-section\] of the seventh \[part\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.17.12.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Gaṇakārikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.pasupata.ganakarika.3.19) — Haradatta & Bhāsarvajña, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.17.12) · Pramāṇa