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Skandapurana 3.1.53.19

Skandapurāṇa 3.1.53.19

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3.1.53.19

16 athāgastitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanam, tanmāhātmyaprasaṃgena dīrghatamomuniputrasya kakṣīvataśca-ritravarṇanam tatrodaṃkākhyasya gurorgṛhe kakṣīvatā ṣaṣṭivarṣaparyantaṃ vidyābhyāsaṃ kṛtvā gṛhaṃ pratyāgantuṃ guroḥ prārthanākaraṇam , tatastadguruṇā tasyodvāhāyopāyakathanam, gurvājñayā kakṣīvatā'gastyatīrthe snātvā tasmāttīrthādudgataṃ caturdantaṃ śubhraṃ gajendra-māruhya madhyemārgameva militena svanayākhyena rājñā saha tasya puraṃ prati gamanam, tataḥ svanayena rājñā kakṣīvate svakanyāyāḥ pradānāya tadvacanāttatpiturdīrghatamasaḥ sudarśanākhyapurodhodvārā''mantraṇaṃ kṛtvā satkārapūrvakaṃ svapuraṃ pratyānayanam, dīrgha-tamasaṃ pitaraṃ prati kakṣīvatā'bhivādanam, nijavidyādhyayanavṛttāntanivedanaṃ ca.... 30 1

16. Now follows the description of the māhātmya of Agastitīrtha. In connection with that māhātmya, the account of Kakṣīvat, son of the sage Dīrghatamas, is described: there Kakṣīvat, having pursued the study of sacred lore for sixty years in the home of his guru named Udaṅka, requested the guru to return home; then the guru told him the means for his marriage; Kakṣīvat, by order of his guru, having taken a ritual ablution at Agastitīrtha, mounted a white lord of elephants with four tusks that emerged from that sacred ford, and met King Svanaya along the way, going with him to his city; then King Svanaya, wishing to give his daughter to Kakṣīvat, upon his word invited Kakṣīvat's father Dīrghatamas through the priest named Sudarśana and brought him with honor to his city; Kakṣīvat saluted his father Dīrghatamas and reported the account of his own study of sacred lore. ... [Chapters] 30–31.

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