Skandapurana 3.1.53.37

3.1.53.37

33 athapunardhanuṣkoṭitīrthamāhātmyaprasaṃgena parāvasunāmakabrāhmaṇa brahmahatyāvimukti vṛttānta varṇanam, tatra bṛhaddyumnacakravartinaḥ satre raibhyamaharṣiputrayorarvāvasuparāvasunāmnoradhvara karmārthaṃ gatayormadhye parāvasoradhvarakarmaṇastṛtīyasavanānte gṛhakṛtyanirīkṣaṇārthaṃ svāśramaṃ pratyāgamanama , tadā madhyemārgaṃ mṛgājinaṃ paridhāya rātrau carataḥ svapituhiṃsramṛgaśaṃkayā parāvasunā hananam, atha parāvasunā tadantikamabhyetya svapitara- meva taṃ svena hataṃ nirīkṣya mahāṃtaṃ śokaṃ kṛtvā pituḥ pretakāryaṃ samāpya nṛpateḥ satre sametya svānujāyārvāvasave pitṛhananādivṛttanivedanam, tataḥ pitṛhatyādoṣanivṛttaye prāyaścittakaraṇārthaṃ kaniṣṭhaṃ bhrātaramājñāpya parāvasunā svayaṃ vṛhaddyumnasya rājñaḥ satre yajñakarmakaraṇam, athārvāvasau dvādaśavarṣaparyantaṃ vrahmahatyānivṛttaye prāyaścittapūrvakaṃ vrataṃ kṛtvā satre samāgate sati tajjyeṣṭhabandhunā parāvasunā tasminnijakaniṣṭhabandhāvarvāvasāveva brahmahatyādoṣamāropya bṛhaddyumnarājadvārā'- rvāvasoḥ satrasadanādbahirniṣkāsanam, tato vāstavikatayā niraparādhinā'rvāvasunā nirupāyavaśātsatrādviniṣkramya vanaṃ gatvā tapaḥkaraṇam, tattapastuṣṭebhya āditye- ndrādidevebhyo'rvāvasunā nijapitṛsaṃjīvanarūpavarayācanaṃ svabhrātuśca pitṛbrahmahatyā- doṣaśāntirūpavarayācanaṃ ca, tato devoktopāyamāśrutyārvāvasunā kaniṣṭhabandhunā parāvasorjyeṣṭhabandhorbrahmahatyādoṣanivṛttaye parāvasuṃ gṛhītvā dakṣiṇodadhistha- dhanuṣkoṭitīrthe snānakaraṇam, tena snānaprabhāveṇa parāvasoḥ pitṛbrahmahatyādoṣa- nivṛttiḥ, tataḥ svagṛhaṃ pratyāgatayostayorarvāvasuparāvasvoḥ pitū raibhyamuneḥ sañjīvyotthānam, brahmahatyādisamastadoṣavināśaka dhanuṣkoṭitīrthamāhātmyam... 59 2

33. Now, again in connection with the description of the māhātmya of the Dhanuṣkoṭi tīrtha, the narration of the release from the killing of a brahmin of the brahmin named Parāvasu: There, of the two sons of the great seer Raibhya named Arvāvasu and Parāvasu who had gone for sacrificial rites at the sacrificial session of Emperor Bṛhaddyumna, between them Parāvasu, at the end of the third pressing of the sacrificial rite, returned to his own hermitage to inspect household affairs; then, in the middle of the road, his own father, who was wandering in the night wearing a deer-skin, was killed by Parāvasu in the suspicion that he was a predatory beast; now, having approached him, Parāvasu, seeing his own father himself killed by him, grieved greatly, completed the funeral rites for his father, returned to the king's sacrificial session, and disclosed the event of the killing of their father and the rest to his younger brother Arvāvasu; then, having commanded his younger brother to perform an expiation for the cessation of the guilt of father-killing, Parāvasu himself performed the sacrificial work at the sacrificial session of King Bṛhaddyumna; then, when Arvāvasu, having performed a vow accompanied by expiation for twelve years for the removal of the killing of a brahmin, arrived at the sacrificial session, his elder brother Parāvasu, having falsely imputed the guilt of the killing of a brahmin onto that very younger brother of his, Arvāvasu, caused Arvāvasu to be expelled from the hall of the sacrificial session by King Bṛhaddyumna; then, as Arvāvasu was truly innocent, having no other recourse, he departed from the sacrificial session, went to the forest, and performed austerity; from the gods beginning with Āditya and Indra who were pleased by that austerity, Arvāvasu requested the boon consisting of the revival of his own father, and requested the boon consisting of the pacification of his brother's sin of the killing of a father who was a brahmin; then, having heard the means spoken by the gods, Arvāvasu the younger brother, for the removal of the guilt of the killing of a brahmin of his elder brother Parāvasu, took Parāvasu and performed a ritual ablution at the Dhanuṣkoṭi tīrtha situated on the southern ocean; by the power of that ritual ablution, the removal of Parāvasu's guilt of the killing of a father who was a brahmin; then, when those two, Arvāvasu and Parāvasu, returned to their own home, the rising of their father the sage Raibhya restored to life; the māhātmya of the Dhanuṣkoṭi tīrtha, destroyer of all sins beginning with the killing of a brahmin. 59.