Skandapurana 4.40.41.1

4.40.41.1

.. skaṃda uvāca .. ..
avimukteśa māhātmyaṃ varṇitaṃ tegrato mayā ..
atho kimasi śuśrūṣuḥ kathayiṣyāmi tatpunaḥ .. 1 ..
.. agastya uvāca .. ..
avimukteśa māhātmyaṃ śrāvaṃ śrāvaṃ śrutī mama ..
atīva suśrute jāte tathāpi na dhinomyaham .. 2 ..
avimukteśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ kṣetraṃ cāpyavimuktakam ..
etayostu kathaṃ prāptirbhavetṣaṇmukha tadvada .. 3 ..
.. skaṃda uvāca .. ..
śṛṇu kuṃ bhaja vakṣyāmi yathā prāptirbhavediha ..
svaśreyo dāturetasyā vimuktasya mahāmate .. 4 ..
samīhitārtha saṃsiddhirlabhyate puṇyabhārataḥ ..
tacca puṇyaṃ bhavedvipra śrutivartmasabhājanāt ..5..
śrutivartmajuṣaḥ puṃsaḥ saṃsparśānnaśyato mune ..
kalikālāvapi sadā chidraṃ prāpya jighāṃsataḥ ..6..
varjitasya vidhānena proktasyākaraṇena vai ..
kalikālāvapi hato brāhmaṇaṃ raṃdhradarśanāt .. 7 ..
niṣiddhācaraṇaṃ tasmātkathayiṣye tavāgrataḥ ..
taddūrataḥ parityajya naro na nirayī bhavet .. 8 ..
palāṃḍuṃ viḍvarāhaṃ ca śeluṃ laśuna gṛṃjane ..
gopīyūṣaṃ taṃḍulīyaṃ varjyaṃ ca kavakaṃ sadā .. 9 ..
vraścanānvṛkṣaniryāsānpāyasāpūpaśaṣkulīḥ ..
adevapitryaṃ palalamavatsāgopayastyajet .. 4.1.40.10 ..
paya aikaśaphaṃ heyaṃ tathā krāmelakāvikam ..
rātrau na dadhi bhoktavyaṃ divā na navanītakam .. 11 ..
ṭiṭṭibhaṃ kalaviṃkaṃ ca haṃsaṃ cakraṃ plavaṃbakam ..
tyajenmāṃsāśinaḥ sarvānsārasaṃ kukkuṭaṃ śukam .. 12 ..
jālapādānkhaṃjarīṭānbuḍitvā matsyabhakṣakān ..
matsyāśī sarvamāṃsāśī tanmatsyānsarvathā tyajet.. 13 ..
havyakavyaniyuktau tu bhakṣyau pāṭhīnarohitau..
māṃsāśibhistvamī bhakṣyāḥ śaśa śallaka kacchapāḥ ..14..

Skanda said: / The māhātmya of Avimukteśa has been described before you by me. / Now what do you wish to hear? I shall recount that again. // 1 // Agastya said: / Listening repeatedly to the māhātmya of Avimukteśa, both my ears / Have become exceedingly good at hearing; even so, I am not satiated. // 2 // Tell me, O Six-faced One, how may the attainment of these two / Be gained: the liṅga Avimukteśvara and the kṣetra Avimukta? // 3 // Skanda said: / Listen, O Pot-born one! I shall declare how attainment in this world may come to pass / Of this Avimukta, which bestows one's own highest good, O highly intelligent one! // 4 // The attainment of desired goals is obtained from a mass of merit; / And that merit, O vipra, arises from honoring the path of the Vedas. // 5 // From the contact of a man devoted to the path of the Vedas, O muni, [sins] perish; / Yet Kali and Kāla, finding a flaw, always seek to destroy him. // 6 // Through omitting what is prescribed by rule, and through performing what is forbidden, / Kali and Kāla indeed slay a brāhmaṇa upon seeing a flaw. // 7 // Therefore I will recount before you forbidden conduct; / Abandoning that from afar, a man will not become an inhabitant of hell. // 8 // Onions, village-pigs, śelu fruit, garlic, and gṛñjana carrots, / Cow's colostrum, taṇḍulīya greens, and mushrooms should always be avoided; // 9 // Red saps oozing from incisions, tree resins, pāyasa, apūpa cakes, śaṣkulī pastries, / Meat not offered to gods and ancestors, and milk from a cow whose calf is absent should be abandoned; // 10 // Milk from solid-hoofed animals is to be rejected, and likewise that of camels and sheep; / Curds should not be eaten at night, nor fresh butter by day; // 11 // The lapwing, the sparrow, the swan, the cakra bird, the plava, and the heron, / All carnivorous birds, the sārasa crane, the cock, and the parrot should be avoided; // 12 // Web-footed birds, wagtails, diving fish-eaters: / An eater of fish is an eater of all meat; therefore one must completely avoid fish. // 13 // But pāṭhīna and rohita fish are edible when appointed for rites to gods and ancestors; / And by meat-eaters, these may be eaten: hares, porcupines, and tortoises; // 14