Skandapurana 3.1.53.38

3.1.53.38

34 atha punardhanuṣkoṭimāhātmyaprasaṅgena sṛgālavānarasaṃvādavṛttāntavarṇanam, tatra pūrva jātismarayoḥ kayościtsṛgālavānarayoḥ parasparaṃ saṃvāde'nyonyaṃ nijapūrvajanma- karmavṛttāntakathanam , evaṃ parasparaṃ bhāṣamāṇayoḥ sṛgālavānarayoḥ samīpe sindhudvīpākhyamunerāgamanam , atha tābhyāṃ sṛgālavānarābhyāṃ nijamu- ktyupāyaṃ pṛṣṭena sindhudvīpamaharṣiṇā dhanuṣkoṭitīrthasnānopadeśapūrvakaṃ kirātī- saṃsargisurāpāyisumatināmaka brāhmaṇasamuddhāravṛttāntakathanam, tatra mahārāṣṭrasthayajña- devadvijaputrasya sumatyākhyasya kirātīsaṃgalolupatayā dhanaṃ saṃpādayituṃ cauryāya pravṛttasya hastena kasyacidbrāhmaṇasya hatyayā brahmahatyāprāptiḥ, atha tayā ghorayā brahmahatyayopadrutasya sarvāṃ bhūmiṃ bhrāntvā svagrāmamāgatya pituḥ samīpe śaraṇā-gamanam, brahmahatyayā tatpitustasya rakṣaṇe niṣedhakaraṇam , tatpitrādīnāṃ purataśca tayā brahmahatyayā sumatestāḍane kṛte tatpitrādīnāṃ sarveṣāṃ duḥkhena rodanam, atha tasminnevāvasare tatra samāgatasya durvāsomaharṣestatpitrā yajñadevena svaputrasya doṣa-nivṛttaye prārthanākaraṇam, tato durvāsasā tasmai brahmahatyādoṣanivṛttaye śrīrāma-dhanuṣkoṭitīrthe snānārthamupadeśakaraṇam, dhanuṣkoṭitīrthamāhātmyaprasaṅgena durvinī- tākhyaviprasya gurustrīgamanapāpanivṛttivṛttāntavarṇanam........ 61 2

34. Now again, in connection with the māhātmya of the Dhanuṣkoṭi sacred ford, the account of the dialogue between the jackal and the monkey is described: Therein, a certain jackal and monkey who remembered their previous lives, in a mutual dialogue, relate the deeds of each other's past births; as the jackal and the monkey were thus conversing together, the sage named Sindhudvīpa arrived near them; then, being asked by the jackal and the monkey about the means to their own liberation, the great seer Sindhudvīpa, while instructing them to bathe in the sacred ford of Dhanuṣkoṭi, narrates the story of the deliverance of the brahmin named Sumati, who frequented a Kirāta woman and drank liquor; therein, through association with a Kirāta woman and lustful craving, Sumati, the son of the twice-born Yajñadeva living in Mahārāṣṭra, set out upon theft to acquire wealth, and by his hand a brahmin was murdered, whereby he incurred the sin of slaying a brahmin; then, afflicted by that terrible sin of slaying a brahmin, having wandered the entire earth, he returned to his own village and took refuge with his father; the sin of slaying a brahmin forbade his father from protecting him; and in front of his father and others, as Sumati was struck by that sin of slaying a brahmin, his father and all the rest wept in grief; then, at that very moment, the great seer Durvāsas having arrived there, the father Yajñadeva made a prayer for the removal of his son's sin; thereupon, for the sake of removing the guilt of slaying a brahmin, Durvāsas instructed him to bathe in the holy Rāmadhanuṣkoṭi sacred ford; and in connection with the māhātmya of the Dhanuṣkoṭi sacred ford, the account of the cessation of the sin of having sex with the Guru's wife committed by the brahmin named Durvinīta is described. 61 2