[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) › 2.4.2.p109 # Skandapurana 2.4.2.p109 Skandapurāṇa 2.4.2.p109 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.4.2.p109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.2.4.2.p109) 2.4.2.12 kanyādānaphalamuktam-"aṣṭavarṣā bhavedgaurī navavarṣā ca rohiṇī .. daśavarṣā bhavetkanyā ata ūrdhvaṃ rajasvalā ..gaurīṃ dadadbrahmalokaṃ rohiṇīṃ sūryalokaṃ kanyāṃ svargalokaṃ rajasvalāṃ yamalokaṃ gacchati .. yāvaṃti caiva romāṇi kanyāyāstu tanau suta .. tāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi rudraloke mahīyate..” iti . 2.4.2.32 śvetaḥ śvetanṛpaḥ puṣkarārcanayogena kamalapūjanena muktiṃ prāpa .. atra prasiddhā kathā brāhme - purā kāśmīradeśe śvetonāma nṛpaḥ iṣṭāpūrtakarmaniṣṭhaḥ mahāvaiṣṇavaḥ rājye putramabhiṣicya puṣkarakṣetraṃ gatvā atitīvreṇa tapasā svaśarīraṃ śoṣayannastot stutyaṃte svadehānnirgataṃ mahābhayaṃkaraṃ puruṣaṃ dṛṣṭvā tvaṃ ko'si kuta āgato'sītyapṛcchat, tadā vyādha uvāca - he rājan tvaṃ pūrvajanmani janasthānīyo nṛpaḥ mṛgayāyāṃ mṛgarūpadharaṃ muniṃ hatavān tena brahmahā jātaḥ, ekadā rātrau brahmahatyābhayānmukto bhavāmīti viciṃtya paramabhaktyā kārtike kamalaiviṣṇuṃ pūjayāmāsitha, tadaiva udaravyādhitaḥ kaṃṭhagatena prāṇena nārāyaṇīnāmnīṃ svapatnīṃ saṃsmaranmṛtaḥ, tena puṇyena tvaṃ svargaṃ gataḥ, ahamapi svena tejamā kalpaparyaṃtaṃ tatra tava nikaṭe sthitaḥ, tataḥ kalpāṃte idānīṃ sa tvaṃ kāśmīradeśe sumanasaḥ rājñaḥ gṛhe śvetanāmnā jātaḥ, atrāpi viṣṇorārādhanastotrapāṭhena tvaṃ śuddhaḥ . ataḥ vyādharūpeṇa tava dehādahaṃ nirgataḥ, śuddhaśca jātaḥ, tacchrutvā vismito rājā vyādhamuvāca, he vyādha yatastvayā mama janmāṃtaraṃ smāritaṃ tasmānmatprasādena tvaṃ dharmavyādho bhaviṣyasi, ityuktvā vimānamāruhya paraṃ sthānamavāpa, tasmāt-"sahasrakamalaiḥ pūjā kārtike madhusūdane . na teṣāṃ punarāvṛttiḥ kalpakoṭiśatairapi” iti .. > 2.4.2.12 > The fruit of giving away a maiden in marriage is stated: > “An eight-year-old girl is Gaurī, and a nine-year-old is Rohiṇī; / a ten-year-old is a kanyā, and beyond that she has attained menses. / One who gives a Gaurī goes to the world of Brahmā; a Rohiṇī, to the world of the Sun; / a kanyā, to the heavenly world; a menstruating girl, to the world of Yama. / And for as many hairs as there are on the maiden's body, O son, / for that many thousands of years one is honored in the world of Rudra.” > > 2.4.2.32 > Śveta, King Śveta, attained liberation through the practice of worshiping at Puṣkara, through the worship with lotuses. Here is the famous story in the Brahma Purāṇa: Formerly in the land of Kaśmīra, there was a king named Śveta, dedicated to sacrifices and charitable deeds, a great devotee of Viṣṇu. Having consecrated his son to the kingdom, he went to the sacred field of Puṣkara, and, drying up his body through exceedingly fierce austerity, he praised \[the Lord\]. At the end of his hymn of praise, seeing a terrifying man issue from his body, he asked: “Who are you, and whence have you come?” Then the hunter said: “O king, in a previous birth you were a king of Janasthāna. While hunting, you killed a sage who had assumed the form of a deer; thereby you became the slayer of a brahmin. Once at night, thinking 'May I be liberated from the fear of slaying a brahmin,' with supreme devotion you worshiped Viṣṇu with lotuses in the month of Kārtika. At that very time, suffering from an abdominal disease, with your life-breath rising to the throat, remembering your wife named Nārāyaṇī, you died. Through that merit you went to heaven; and I too, by my own radiance, remained near you there until the end of the cosmic age. Then, at the end of the cosmic age, you were born just now in the land of Kaśmīra in the house of King Sumanas, under the name of Śveta. Here also, through the recitation of the hymn of worship of Viṣṇu, you have been purified. Therefore, in the form of a hunter, I have issued from your body and have become pure.” Hearing that, the king, filled with astonishment, said to the hunter: “O hunter, since my previous birth has been recalled by you, through my grace you shall become Dharmavyādha.” Saying this, ascending an aerial chariot, he reached the supreme abode. Therefore: > “For those who perform worship of the slayer of Madhu with a thousand lotuses in Kārtika, / there is no return, even after hundreds of crores of cosmic ages.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.4.2.p108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.2.4.2.p108) - [Next: 2.4.2.p110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.2.4.2.p110) - [Up: 2.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.2.4.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.2.4.2.p109) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.2.4.2.p109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.2.4.2.p109) · Pramāṇa