[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) › 3.1.52.1.9 # Skandapurana 3.1.52.1.9 Skandapurāṇa 3.1.52.1.9 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.1.52.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.52.1.9) ekavāreṇa tatpuṇyaṃ labhate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 15 .. trailokyastheṣu tīrtheṣu snātānāṃ yatphalaṃ bhavet .. sakṛdarddhodaye setau snātvā tatpuṇyabhāgbhavet .. 16 .. brahmajñānavihīnānāṃ kṛtaghnānāṃ durā tmanām .. pāpināmitareṣāṃ ca mahāpātakināṃ tathā .. 17 .. setāvarddhodaye snānādviśuddhiriti niścitā .. sthalāṃtare kṛtaghnānāṃ niṣkṛtirnāsti karhicit .. 18 .. setāvardhodaye snānātteṣāmapi hi niṣkṛtiḥ .. setāvarddhodaye snānaṃ ye na kurvaṃti mohataḥ .. 19 .. saṃsāreṣu nimajjaṃti te yathāṃdhāḥ pataṃtyadhaḥ .. setāvardhodaye snātvā bhittvā bhāskaramaṇḍalam .. 3.1.52.120 .. brahmalokaṃ prayāsyaṃti nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. arddhodaye tu saṃprāpte snātvā setau vimuktide .. 21 .. snātvā samyagjagannāthaṃ rāghavaṃ sītayā saha .. rāmeśvaraṃ mahādevaṃ sugrīvādimukhānkapīn .. 22 .. dhyātvā devānṛṣīṃścāpi tathā pitṛgaṇānapi .. tarpayedapi tānsarvānsvadāridryavimuktaye .. 23 .. arddhodayākhyamamalaṃ jagannāthaṃ samarcayet .. setāvarddhodaye kāle tena prīṇāti keśavaḥ .. 24 .. divākara namaste'stu tejorāśe jagatpate .. atrigotrasamutpanna lakṣmī devyāḥ sahodara .. 25 .. arghaṃ gṛhāṇa bhagavansudhākumbha namostu te .. vyatīpātamahāyoginmahāpātakanāśana .. 26 .. sahasrabāho sarvātma ngṛhāṇārghyaṃ namo'stu te .. tithinakṣatravārāṇāmadhīśa parameśvara .. 27.. māsarūpa gṛhaṇārghyaṃ kālarūpa namo'stu te .. iti dattvā pṛthaṅmaṃtrairarghyamarddhodaye naraḥ .. 28 .. upāyanāni viprebhyo dadyādvittānusārataḥ .. caturdaśa dvādaśāṣṭau sapta ṣaṭ paṃca vā dvijān .. 29 .. > he obtains that merit with a single time; there is no doubt about this. / Whatever fruit belongs to those who have bathed in the sacred fords situated in the three worlds, / having bathed once at the Setu during the Ardhodaya, one becomes a sharer of that merit. / For those destitute of knowledge of Brahman, for the ungrateful, for the wicked, / for other sinners, and likewise for perpetrators of heinous sins, / purification is assured through ritual ablution at the Setu during the Ardhodaya. / For the ungrateful, there is never any expiation at another place; / even for them there is indeed expiation through ritual ablution at the Setu during the Ardhodaya. / Those who, through delusion, do not perform the ritual ablution at the Setu during the Ardhodaya, / sink down into worldly transmigrations as blind men fall downward. / Having bathed at the Setu during the Ardhodaya, having pierced the solar disc, / they will go to the world of Brahmā; no doubt should be entertained on this point. / But when the Ardhodaya has arrived, having bathed at the Setu that bestows complete liberation, / having bathed, having properly meditated on the Lord of the Universe, Rāghava, along with Sītā, / on Rāmeśvara the Great God, on the monkeys headed by Sugrīva, / and on the gods, the seers, and also the groups of ancestral spirits, / he should also make water offerings to all of them for the sake of release from his own poverty. / One should worship the spotless Lord of the Universe named Ardhodaya; / at the time of the Ardhodaya at the Setu, Keśava is pleased by this. / 'O Maker of the Day, homage to you, mass of splendor, Lord of the Universe! / O you born of the Atri lineage, brother of the goddess Lakṣmī! / Accept this guest-offering, O Blessed One, pitcher of nectar, homage to you! / O great yogin of the Vyatīpāta, destroyer of heinous sins, / O thousand-armed one, Soul of All, accept the guest-offering, homage to you! / O supreme lord, sovereign of lunar days, lunar mansions, and weekdays, / O you whose form is the month, accept the guest-offering, homage to you whose form is time!' / Having offered the guest-offering in this manner with separate mantras during the Ardhodaya, a man / should give presents to brahmins according to his wealth. / Fourteen, twelve, eight, seven, six, or five twice-borns, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.1.52.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.52.1.8) - [Next: 3.1.52.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.52.1.10) - [Up: 3.1.52.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.52.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.3.1.52.1.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.52.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.1.52.1.9) · Pramāṇa