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# Skandapurana 4.46

Skandapurāṇa 4.46

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.46.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.1)

.. skaṃda uvāca .. ..

> Skanda said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.2)

gatetha yoginīvṛṃde devadevo ghaṭodbhava ..

> When the host of yoginīs had gone, O pot-born one \[Agastya\], the God of Gods,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.3)

kāśīpravṛttiṃ jijñāsuḥ prāhiṇodaṃśumālinam ..1..

> desirous of knowing the events in Kāśī, dispatched the Sun.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.4)

devadeva uvāca .. ..

> The God of Gods said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.5)

saptāśva tvarito yāhi purīṃ vārāṇasīṃ śubhām ..

> "O you who have seven horses, go swiftly to the auspicious city of Vārāṇasī,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.6)

yatrāsti sa divodāso dharmamūrtirmahīpatiḥ .. 2 ..

> where that King Divodāsa, righteousness incarnate, resides.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.7)

tasya dharmavirodhena yathātatkṣetramudvaset ..

> Act quickly in such a way that the sacred field may be vacated without violating his righteousness;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.8)

tathā kuruṣva bho kṣipraṃ māvamaṃsthāśca taṃ nṛpam .. 3 ..

> and do not show disrespect to that king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.9)

dharmamārga pravṛttasya kriyate yāvamānanā ..

> Whatever disrespect is shown to one devoted to the path of righteousness  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.10)

sā bhavedātmano nūnaṃ mahadenaśca jāyate .. 4 ..

> surely falls upon oneself, and a great sin is born.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.11)

tavabuddhivikāsena cyavate cetsa dharmataḥ ..

> If, by the unfolding of your intellect, he deviates from righteousness,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.12)

tadā sā nagarī bhāno tvayodvāsyā'sahaiḥ karaiḥ .. 5 ..

> then, O Sun, that city should be evacuated by you with your unbearable rays.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.13)

kāmakrodhau lobhamohau matsarāhaṃkṛtī api ..

> Desire and anger, greed and delusion, envy and pride—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.14)

te tatra na bhavetāṃ yattatkālopi na taṃ jayet .. 6 ..

> as long as those two \[classes of passions\] are not in him, even Time cannot conquer him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.15)

yāvaddharme sthirābuddhiryāvaddharmesthiraṃ manaḥ ..

> As long as intellect is steady in righteousness, and as long as the mind is steady in righteousness,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.16)

tāvadvighnodayaḥ kvāsti vipadyapi rave nṛṣu .. 7 ..

> how can there be any rise of obstacles among men even in adversity, O Sun?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.17)

sarveṣāmiha jaṃtūnāṃ tvaṃ vetsi bradhnaceṣṭitam ..

> You know the conduct of all living beings here, O Sun;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.18)

ataeva jagaccakṣurvraja tvaṃ kāryasiddhaye .. 8 ..

> therefore, O eye of the universe, go to accomplish this task."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.19)

ravirādāya devājñāṃ mūrtimanyāṃ prakalpya ca ..

> Taking the god's command and assuming another form,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.20)

nabhodhvagāmahorātraṃ kāśīmabhimukho'bhavat .. 9 ..

> the Sun, traveling day and night through the sky, turned his face toward Kāśī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.21)

manasātīvalolo'bhūtkāśīdarśanalālasaḥ ..

> His mind became exceedingly restless with eager longing to see Kāśī;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.22)

sahasracaraṇopyaicchattadā khe naikapādatām .. 4.1.46.10 ..

> though possessing a thousand rays, he then wished to take not just a single step in the sky.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.23)

haṃsatvaṃ tasya sūryasya tadā saphalatāmagāt ..

> Then, being a swan \[in the sky\], the sun's state of being a swan bore fruit,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.24)

sadā nabhodhvanīnasya kāśīṃ prati yiyāsataḥ .. 11 ..

> for he was a traveler perpetually on the celestial path, desirous of going to Kāśī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.25)

atha kāśīṃ samāsādya raviraṃtarbahiścaran ..

> Then, having reached Kāśī, the sun, moving inside and out,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.26)

manāgapi na tadbhūpe dharmadhvastimavekṣata ..12..

> did not perceive the slightest breach of righteousness in that king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.27)

vibhāvasurvasankāśyāṃ nānārūpeṇa vatsaram ..

> Dwelling in Kāśī in various forms for a year, the sun  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.28)

kvacinnāvasaraṃ prāpa tatra rājñi sudharmiṇi .. 13 ..

> found no opening anywhere in that highly righteous king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.29)

kadācidatithirbhūto durlabhaṃ prārthayanraviḥ ..

> At times, becoming a guest and asking for what was hard to obtain, the sun  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.30)

na tasya rājño viṣaye durlabhaṃ kiṃcidaikṣata .. 14 ..

> saw nothing that was hard to obtain in that king's realm.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.31)

kadācidyācako jāto bahudopi kadāpyabhūt ..

> At times he became a beggar, and sometimes he was a munificent giver;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.32)

kadāciddīnatāṃ prāptaḥ kadācidgaṇakopyabhūt .. 15 ..

> at times he assumed a wretched state, and sometimes he was an astrologer.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.33)

vedabāhyāṃ kriyāṃ cāpi kadācitpratyapādayat..

> And sometimes he demonstrated an action contrary to the Vedas;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.34)

kadācitsthāpayāmāsa dṛṣṭapratyayamaihikam ..16..

> at times he established empirical, worldly convictions.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.35)

kadācijjaṭilo jātaḥ kadācicca digaṃbaraḥ ..

> Sometimes he had matted hair, and sometimes he went sky-clad;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.36)

sa kadācijjāṃguliko viṣavidyāviśāradaḥ.. .. 17 ..

> sometimes he was a snake-charmer, expert in toxicology.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.37)

sarvapāṣaṃḍadharmajñaḥ kadācidbrahmavādyabhūt ..

> He knew the doctrines of all heretics, and sometimes he was an expounder of the absolute;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.38)

aiṃdrajālika āsīcca kadācidbhrāmayañjanān .. 18 ..

> sometimes he was a magician, bewildering people.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.39)

nānāvratopadeśaiśca kadācitsa pativratāḥ ..

> And sometimes, through teachings of various vows,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.40)

kṣobhayāmāsa bahuśaḥ sadṛṣṭāṃta kathānakaiḥ .. 19 ..

> he agitated devoted wives many times with illustrative tales.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.41)

kāpālika vratadharaḥ kadāciccābhavaddvijaḥ ..

> Sometimes he was a twice-born observing the Kāpālika vow;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.42)

kadācidapi vijñānī dhātuvādī kadācana .. 4.1.46.20 ..

> sometimes he was a scholar of science, and sometimes an alchemist.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.43)

kvacidvipraḥ kvacidrājaputro vaiśyoṃtyajaḥ kvacita ..

> Somewhere a brahmin, somewhere a prince, a merchant, or somewhere an outcaste;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.44)

brahmacārī kvacidabhūdgṛhī vanacaraḥ kvacit .. 21 ..

> somewhere he was a celibate student, somewhere a householder, somewhere a forest dweller,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.45)

yatiḥ kadāciditi sarūpairabhrāmayajjanān ..

> and sometimes an ascetic—with these forms he bewildered the people;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.46)

sarvavidyāsu kuśalaḥ sarvajñaścābhavatkvacit .. 22 ..

> and somewhere he was skilled in all lores, omniscient.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.47)

iti nānāvidhai rūpaiścarankāśyāṃ graheśvaraḥ ..

> Thus, roaming Kāśī in various forms, the lord of the planets  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.48)

na kadāpi jane kvāpi cchidraṃ prāpa kadācana .. 23 ..

> never found any flaw in anyone anywhere.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.49)

tato niniṃda cātmānaṃ ciṃtārtaḥ kaśyapātmajaḥ ..

> Then Kaśyapa's son, stricken with anxiety, condemned himself:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.50)

dhikparapreṣyatāṃ yasyāṃ yaśo labhyeta na kvacit .. 24 ..

> “Fie on servitude to another, in which glory is nowhere gained!”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.51)

.. mārtaṃḍa uvāca .. ..

> Mārtaṇḍa said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.52)

maṃdaraṃ yadi yāmyadya sadyastatkruddhyatīśvaraḥ ..

> “If I go to Mandara today, the Lord will instantly grow angry  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.53)

aniṣpāditakāryārthe mayi sāmānyabhṛtyavat .. ..25 ..

> at me, as if at an ordinary servant, whose purpose has not been accomplished.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.54)

kopamapyurarīkṛtya yadi yāyāṃ kathaṃcana ..

> Even taking his wrath upon myself, if I should go somehow,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.55)

kathaṃ tiṣṭhe purastasya tarhi vai mūḍhabhṛtyavat .. 26 ..

> how indeed could I stand before him like a foolish servant?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.56)

athoṃkṛtyāvahelaṃ vā yāmi cecca kathaṃcana ..

> And if, uttering assent or in disregard, I somehow go,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.57)

krodhānnirīkṣettryakṣo māṃ viṣaṃ peyaṃ tadā mayā .. 27 ..

> the three-eyed lord will look at me in rage; then poison must be drunk by me.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.58)

harakopānale nūnaṃ yadi yātaḥ pataṃgatām ..

> Truly, if I become a moth into the fire of Hara's wrath,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.59)

pitāmahopi māṃ trātuṃ tadā śakṣyati nasphuṭam .. 28 ..

> even the grandfather \[Brahmā\] will certainly not be able to protect me.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.60)

sthāsyāmyatraiva tannityaṃ na tyakṣyāmi kadācana ..

> Therefore I will stay right here forever; I will never leave,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.61)

kṣetrasaṃnyāsavidhinā vārāṇasyāṃ kṛtāśramaḥ .. 29 ..

> having made my hermitage in Vārāṇasī according to the rule of kṣetrasaṃnyāsa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.62)

puraḥ purāreḥ kāyārthamanivedyeha tiṣṭhataḥ ..

> For me remaining here without reporting the matter before the enemy of Tripura,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.63)

yatpāpaṃ bhāvi me tasya kāśīpāpasyaniṣkṛtiḥ ..4.1.46.30..

> whatever sin shall arise, Kāśī is the expiation of that sin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.64)

anyānyapi ca pāpāni mahāṃtyalpāni yāni ca ..

> Whatever other sins there may be, great or small,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.65)

kṣayaṃti tāni sarvāṇi kāśīṃ praviśatāṃ satām ..31..

> all those perish for virtuous people who enter Kāśī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.66)

buddhipūrvaṃ mayā caitanna pāpaṃ samupārjitam ..

> And this sin was not deliberately acquired by me;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.67)

purāriṇaiva hi purā''śāsi dharmo hi rakṣyatām .. 32 ..

> for indeed formerly it was commanded by the enemy of Tripura: ‘Let righteousness be protected!’  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.68)

dharmo hi rakṣito yena dehe satvaragatvare ..

> By him by whom righteousness is protected while the body is swiftly passing away,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.69)

trailokyarakṣitaṃ tena kiṃ kāmārthaiḥ surakṣitaiḥ ..33 ..

> the three worlds are protected; what is the use of well-protected pleasure and wealth?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.70)

rakṣaṇīyo yadi bhavetkāmaḥ kāmāriṇā katham ..

> If pleasure ought to be protected, how was it that Kāma,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.71)

kṣaṇādanaṃgatāṃ nīto bahūnāṃ sukhakāryapi ..34..

> though bringing happiness to many, was in an instant reduced to bodilessness by the enemy of Kāma?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.72)

arthaścetsarvathārakṣya iti kaiścidudāhṛtam..

> If it is said by some: ‘Wealth must be protected by all means,’  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.73)

tatkathaṃ na hariścaṃdro'rakṣatkuśikanaṃdane .. 35 ..

> then why did Hariścandra not protect it when faced with Kuśika's son \[Viśvāmitra\]?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.74)

dharmastu rakṣitaḥ sarvairapidehavyayena ca ..

> Righteousness, however, was protected by all, even at the cost of their bodies—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.75)

śibiprabhṛtibhūpālairdadhīcipramukhairdvijaiḥ .. 36 ..

> by kings like Śibi and by leading twice-borns like Dadhīci.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.76)

ayameva hi vai dharmaḥ kāśīsevanasaṃbhavaḥ ..

> This very righteousness arising from service to Kāśī  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.77)

ruṣitādapi rudrānmāṃ rakṣiṣyati na saṃśayaḥ .. 37 ..

> will protect me even from an enraged Rudra, without a doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.78)

avāpya kāśīṃ duṣprāpāṃ ko jahāti sacetanaḥ ..

> Having reached Kāśī, so hard to attain, what conscious person abandons it?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.79)

ratnaṃ karasthamutsṛjya kaḥ kācaṃ saṃjighṛkṣati .. 38 ..

> Abandoning a jewel in one's hand, who desires to grasp a piece of glass?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.80)

vārāṇasīṃ samutsṛjya yastvanyatra yiyāsati ..

> He who, having cast aside Vārāṇasī, desires to go elsewhere,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.81)

hatvā nidhānaṃ pādena sorthamicchati bhikṣayā .. 39 ..

> kicks away a treasure with his foot and seeks wealth through begging.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.82)

putramitrakalatrāṇi kṣetrāṇi ca dhanāni ca ..

> Sons, friends, wives, fields, and riches,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.83)

pratijanmeha labhyaṃte kāśyekā naiva labhyate .. 4.1.46.40 ..

> can be obtained in birth after birth here; Kāśī alone is never obtained.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.84)

yena labdhā purī kāśī trailokyoddharaṇakṣamā ..

> By him by whom the city of Kāśī—capable of delivering the three worlds—has been attained,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.85)

trailokyaiśvaryaduṣprāpaṃ tena labdhaṃ mahāsukham .. 41 ..

> great bliss, difficult to obtain through the sovereign power of the three worlds, has been attained.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.86)

kupitopi hi me rudrastejohāniṃ vidhāsyati ..

> “Even if Rudra is angered, he will only cause the loss of my luster;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.87)

kāśyāṃ ca lapsye tattejo yadvai svātmāvabodhajam .. 42 ..

> and in Kāśī I shall regain that luster which indeed is born of self-realization.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.88)

itarāṇīha tejāṃsi bhāsaṃte tāvadeva hi ..

> Other splendors shine here only so long,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.89)

khadyotābhāni yāvanno jṛṃbhate kāśijaṃ mahaḥ .. 43 ..

> resembling fireflies, as long as the glory born of Kāśī does not expand.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.90)

iti kāśīprabhāvajño jagaccakṣustamonudaḥ ..

> Knowing thus the majesty of Kāśī, the eye of the universe, dispeller of darkness,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.91)

kṛtvā dvādaśadhātmānaṃ kāśīpuryāṃ vyavasthitaḥ .. 44 ..

> divided himself twelvefold and took up residence in the city of Kāśī:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.92)

lolārka uttarārkaśca sāṃbādityastathaiva ca ..

> Lolārka and Uttarārka, and likewise Sāmbāditya,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.93)

caturtho drupadādityo mayūkhāditya eva ca .. 45 ..

> Drupadāditya as the fourth, and Mayūkhāditya,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.94)

khakholkaścāruṇādityo vṛddhakeśavasaṃjñakau ..

> Khakholka and Aruṇāditya, the two known as Vṛddhakeśava,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.95)

daśamo vimalādityo gaṃgādityastathaiva ca .. .. 46 ..

> the tenth, Vimalāditya, and likewise Gaṅgāditya,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.96)

dvādaśaśca yamādityaḥ kāśipuryāṃ ghaṭodbhava ..

> and the twelfth is Yamāditya in the city of Kāśī, O pot-born one!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.97)

tamo'dhikebhyo duṣṭebhyaḥ kṣetraṃ rakṣaṃtyamī sadā .. 47 ..

> These always protect the sacred field from wicked beings abundant in ignorance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.98)

tasyārkasya manololaṃ yadāsītkāśidarśane ..

> Because that sun’s mind was trembling (lola) upon seeing Kāśī,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.99)

ato lolārka ityākhyā kāśyāṃ jātā vivasvataḥ .. 48 ..

> therefore Vivasvat acquired the name Lolārka in Kāśī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.100)

lolārkastvasisaṃbhede dakṣiṇasyāṃ diśisthitaḥ ..

> Lolārka, stationed at the confluence of the Asi in the southern direction,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.101)

yogakṣemaṃ sadā kuryātkāśīvāsi janasya ca .. .. 49 ..

> always ensures the welfare and security of the people residing in Kāśī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.102)

mārgaśīrṣasya saptamyāṃ ṣaṣṭhyāṃ vā ravivāsare ..

> On the seventh or sixth day \[of the lunar fortnight\] of Mārgaśīrṣa, on a Sunday,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.103)

vidhāya vārṣikīṃ yātrāṃ naraḥ pāpai pramucyate .. 4.1.46.50 ..

> a man having performed the annual pilgrimage is freed from sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.104)

kṛtāni yāni pāpāni naraiḥ saṃvatsarāvadhi ..

> Whatever sins have been committed by men up to the span of a year,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.105)

naśyaṃti kṣaṇatastāni ṣaṣṭhyarke loladarśanāt .. 51 ..

> are destroyed in an instant from the darśana of Lola on a Sunday that is a sixth tithi.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.106)

naraḥ snātvāsisaṃbhede saṃtarpya pitṛdevatāḥ ..

> A man having bathed at the confluence of the Asi, having gratified the ancestors and deities,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.107)

śrāddhaṃ vidhāya vidhinā pitrānṛṇyamavāpnuyāt ..52..

> and having performed a śrāddha according to rule, attains freedom from debt to the ancestors.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.108)

lolārkasaṃgame snātvā dānaṃ homaṃ surārcanam ..

> Having bathed at the confluence of Lolārka, gift-giving, oblation, worship of the gods—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.109)

yatkiṃcitkriyate karma tadānaṃtyāya kalpate .. 53 ..

> whatever rite is performed leads to endless \[merit\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.110)

sūryoparāge lolārke snānadānādikāḥ kriyāḥ ..

> At a solar eclipse at Lolārka, rites such as ritual ablution and gift-giving  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.111)

kurukṣetrāddaśaguṇā bhavaṃtīha na saṃśayaḥ .. 54 ..

> are ten times greater than at Kurukṣetra here, there is no doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.112)

lolārke rathasaptamyāṃ snātvā gaṃgāsisaṃgame ..

> Having bathed at Lolārka, at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the Asi, on the Rathasaptamī,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.113)

saptajanmakṛtaiḥ pāpairmukto bhavati tatkṣaṇāt .. 55 ..

> one is freed that very moment from sins committed in seven lifetimes.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.114)

pratyarkavāraṃ lolārkaṃ yaḥ paśyati śucivrataḥ ..

> One of pure vows who beholds Lolārka on every Sunday,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.115)

na tasya duḥkhaṃ lokesminkadācitsaṃbhaviṣyati..56..

> suffering will never occur for him in this world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.116)

na tasya duḥkhaṃ no pāmā na dadrurna vicarcikā ..

> Neither suffering, nor scabies, ringworm, or eczema befalls him  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.117)

lolārkamarke yaḥ paśyettatpādodakasevakaḥ .. 57 ..

> who beholds Lolārka on Sunday and honors the water of his feet.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.118)

vārāṇasyāmuṣitvāpi yo lolārkaṃ na sevate ..

> Whoever, even having dwelt in Vārāṇasī, does not worship Lolārka,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.119)

sevaṃte taṃ naraṃ nūnaṃ kleśāḥ kṣudvyādhisaṃbhavāḥ .. 58 ..

> surely troubles born of hunger and disease will beset that man.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.120)

sarveṣāṃ kāśitīrthānāṃ lolārkaḥ prathamaṃ śiraḥ ..

> Lolārka is the first head of all the sacred fords of Kāśī;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.121)

tatoṃ'gānyanyatīrthāni tajjalaplāvitānihi .. 59 ..

> the other sacred fords are its limbs, flooded indeed with its water.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.122)

tīrthāṃtarāṇi sarvāṇi bhūmīvalayagānyapi ..

> All other sacred fords, even those situated on the circle of the earth,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.123)

asisaṃbhedatīrthasya kalāṃ nārhaṃti ṣoḍaśīm .. 4.1.46.60 ..

> are not worth a sixteenth part of the sacred ford at the Asi confluence.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.124)

sarveṣāmeva tīrthānāṃ snānādyallabhyate phalam ..

> Whatever fruit is obtained from ritual ablution in all sacred fords,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.125)

tatphalaṃ samyagāpyeta narairgaṃgāsisaṃgame .. 61 ..

> that fruit is fully attained by men at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the Asi.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.126)

nārthavādoyamuditaḥ stutivādo na vai mune ..

> This is not mere rhetoric (arthavāda) that has been spoken; it is not mere eulogy, O sage;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.127)

satyaṃ yathārthavādoyaṃ śraddheyaḥ sadbhirādarāt .. 62 ..

> this is the truth, an accurate statement, to be believed with reverence by the virtuous.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.128)

yatra viśveśvaraḥ sākṣādyatra svargataraṃgiṇī ..

> Where Viśveśvara is present in person, where the river of heaven flows,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.129)

mithyā tatrānumanyaṃte tārkikāścānusūyakāḥ .. 63 ..

> logicians and carpers wrongly consider that \[testimony\] false.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.130)

udāharaṃti ye mūḍhāḥ kutarkabaladarpitāḥ ..

> Those fools, arrogant with the force of sophistry, who declare,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.131)

kāśyāṃ sarverthavādoyaṃ te viṭkīṭā yugeyuge .. 64 ..

> “All this is mere rhetoric in Kāśī,” become worms in excrement age after age.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.132)

kasyacitkāśitīrthasya mahimno mahatastulām..

> Even the pavilion of the three worlds could never equal the scale  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.133)

nādhirohenmune nūnamapi trailokyamaṃḍapaḥ .. 65 ..

> of the great majesty of any single sacred ford of Kāśī, O sage.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.134)

nāstikā vedabāhyāśca śiśnodaraparāyaṇāḥ ..

> To atheists, those outside the Veda, those devoted only to the belly and genitals,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.135)

aṃtyajātāśca ye teṣāṃ puraḥ kāśī na varṇyatām .. 66 ..

> and outcasts—before them let not Kāśī be described.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.136)

lolārkakaraniṣṭaptā asidhāra vikhaṃḍitāḥ ..

> Scorched by the rays of Lolārka, severed by the sword-edge (asidhārā) \[of the river\],  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.137)

kāśyāṃ dakṣiṇadigbhāge na viśeyurmahāmalāḥ ..67..

> those of great impurity cannot enter Kāśī from the southern direction.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.138)

mahimānamimaṃ śrutvā lolārkasya narottamaḥ ..

> Having heard this majesty of Lolārka, the best of men  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.139)

na duḥkhī jāyate kvāpi saṃsāre duḥkhasāgare .. 68 ..

> never becomes miserable anywhere in this transmigration, this ocean of misery.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [4.46.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.46.140)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ caturthe kāśīkhaṃḍe pūrvārddhe lolārkavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṭcatvāriṃśodhyāyaḥ .. 46 ..

> Thus ends the forty-sixth chapter, named “The Description of Lolārka,” in the first half of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa in the fourth \[book of\] the venerable Skandamahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.46.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Śrīpraśnasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.pancaratra.sriprasna.4.25) — Sanskrit
- [Abhidhānaratnamālā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.kosa.paryaya.abhidhanaratnamala.8.7.p1.17_5) — Halāyudha (lexicographer), Sanskrit

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