Skandapurana 3.1.15.5

3.1.15.5

.. śrīsūta uvāca .. ..
brahmakuṇḍe mahāpuṇye snānaṃ kṛtvā samāhitaḥ ..
naro hanūmataḥ kuṇḍamatha gacchedvijottamāḥ .. 1 ..
purā hateṣu rakṣaḥsu samāpte raṇakarmaṇi ..
rāmādiṣu nivṛtteṣu gaṃdhamādanaparvate .. 2 ..
sarva lokopakārāya hanūmānmārutātmajaḥ ..
sarvatīrthottamaṃ cakre svanāmnā tīrthamuttamam .. 3 ..
viditvā vaibhavaṃ yasya svayaṃ rudreṇa sevyate ..
tasya tīrthasya sadṛśaṃ na bhūtaṃ na bhaviṣyati .. 4 ..
yatra snātā narā yāṃti śivalokaṃ sanātanam ..
yasmiṃstīrthe mahāpuṇye mahāpātakanāśane .. 5 ..
sarvalokopakārāya nirmite vāyusūnunā ..
sarvāṇi narakāṇyāsañcchūnyānyeva cirāya vai .. 6 ..
vaibhavaṃ tasya tīrthasya śaṃkaro vetti vā na vā ..
yatra dharmasakhonāma rājā kekayavaṃśajaḥ .. 7 ..
bhaktyā saha purā snātvā śataṃ putrānavāpta vān ..
.. ṛṣaya ūcuḥ .. ..
sūta dharmasakhasyādya caritaṃ vaktumarhasi ..
hanūmatkuṇḍatīrthe yo lebhe snātvā śataṃ sutān .. 8 .. ..
.. śrīsūta uvāca .. ..
śṛṇudhvamṛṣayo yūyaṃ caritaṃ tasya bhūpateḥ .. 9 ..
adya dharmasakhasyāhaṃ pravakṣyāmi samāsataḥ ..
rājā dharmasakhonāma vijitāriḥ sudhārmikaḥ .. 3.1.15.10 ..
babhūva nītimānpūrvaṃ prajāpālanatatparaḥ ..
tasya bhāryāśataṃ viprā vabhūva patidaivatam .. 11 ..
sa pālayanmahīṃ rājā saśailavanakānanām ..
tāsu bhāryāsu tanayaṃ nāviṃdadvaṃśavarddhanam .. 12 ..
putrārthaṃ sa mahīpālo bahūyatnānathākarot ..5

Glorious Sūta said: / Having performed a ritual ablution with a concentrated mind in the highly sacred Brahmakuṇḍa, / a man should then go to the pool of Hanūmat, O best of brahmins. / Formerly, when the demons had been slain, when the task of battle was over, / and Rāma and the others had returned to Mount Gandhamādana, / for the benefit of all the worlds, Hanūmat, the son of the Wind, / created the best of all sacred fords bearing his own name. / Knowing the glory of which it is served by Rudra himself, / equal to that sacred ford there has never been, nor will there ever be. / Bathing in which men go to the eternal world of Śiva; / in which highly sacred ford, which destroys great sins, / created by the son of the Wind for the benefit of all worlds, / all the hells became utterly empty for a long time indeed. / Śaṃkara knows the glory of that sacred ford, or perhaps he does not! / Where formerly a king of the Kekaya lineage named Dharmasakha, / having bathed with devotion, obtained one hundred sons. / The seers said: / O Sūta, you ought to tell today the life-story of Dharmasakha, / who, having bathed in the sacred ford of Hanūmatkuṇḍa, obtained one hundred sons. / Glorious Sūta said: / Listen, O seers, to the deeds of that protector of the earth; / today I will relate in brief [the story] of Dharmasakha. / Formerly there was a king named Dharmasakha who had conquered his enemies, was exceedingly righteous, / virtuous, and devoted to the protection of his subjects. / He had one hundred wives, O brahmins, to whom their husband was a deity. / Ruling the earth along with its mountains, forests, and groves, / the king did not obtain in those wives a son to continue his lineage. / Then, for the sake of a son, that protector of the earth made many efforts;