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Skandapurana 5.109

Skandapurāṇa 5.109

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5.109.1

.. śrīdevyuvāca .. ..
naiteṣvapi suraśreṣṭha sarveṣu bhuvi mānavāḥ ..
api dīrghāyuṣo bhūtvā snātuṃ śaktāḥ kathaṃcana .. 1 ..

The goddess said: / Men on earth, even if long-lived, are by no means able / to bathe in all of these [sacred fords], O best of gods. (1)

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5.109.2

eteṣāmapi sārāṇi mama tīrthāni kīrtaya ..
yeṣu snāto naraḥ samyaksarveṣāṃ labhate phalam .. 2 .. ..

Recite to me the sacred fords that are the essences even of these, / bathing properly in which a person obtains the fruit of all of them. (2)

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5.109.3

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
eteṣāṃ madhyato devi tīrthāṣṭakamanuttamam ..
asti snātairnaraistatra sarveṣāṃ labhyate phalam .. 3 ..

Īśvara said: / From among these, O goddess, there is an unsurpassed group of eight sacred fords; / by men who bathe there, the fruit of all of them is obtained. (3)

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5.109.4

naimiṣaṃ caiva kedāraṃ puṣkaraṃ kṛmijāṃgalam ..
vārāṇasī kurukṣetraṃ prabhāsaṃ hāṭakeśvaram .. 4 ..

Naimiṣa, Kedāra, Puṣkara, Kṛmijāṅgala, / Vārāṇasī, Kurukṣetra, Prabhāsa, and Hāṭakeśvara. (4)

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5.109.5

aṣṭāsveteṣu yaḥ snātaḥ samyakchraddhāsamanvitaḥ ..
sa snātaḥ sarvatīrtheṣu satyametanmayoditam .. 5 ..

He who has bathed in these eight, endowed with proper faith, / has bathed in all sacred fords; this truth has been spoken by me. (5)

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5.109.6

.. śrīdevyuvāca .. ..
kalikāle mahādeva bhaviṣyati kathaṃcana ..
snānaṃ tasmānmama brūhi yatsāraṃ tīrthameva hi .. 6 ..

The goddess said: / In the Kali age, O Mahādeva, how can bathing / take place? Therefore, tell me the sacred ford that is the very essence [of them all]. (6)

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5.109.7

aṣṭānāmapi caiteṣāṃ devadeva trilocana ..
yadyahaṃ vallabhā bhaktā tathā cittānuvartinī .. 7 ..

Even among these eight, O God of gods, O Three-Eyed One, / if indeed I am your beloved devotee, compliant with your heart. (7)

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5.109.8

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
aṣṭānāmapi deveśi kṣetrāṇāmasti cottamam ..
eteṣāmapi tatkṣetraṃ hāṭakeśvarasaṃjñitam .. 8 ..

Īśvara said: / Even among the eight sacred fields, O ruler of the gods, there is one supreme; / even among them, that sacred field is known by the name Hāṭakeśvara, (8)

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5.109.9

yatra sarvāṇi kṣetrāṇi saṃsthitāni mamājñayā ..
tathānyāni ca tīrthāni kalikāle'pi saṃsthite .. 9 ..

where all the sacred fields are situated by my command, / as well as the other sacred fords, even when the Kali age has set in. (9)

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5.109.10

tasmātsarvaprayatnena tatkṣetraṃ sevyameva hi ..
mānuṣairmokṣamicchadbhiḥ satyametanma yoditam .. 6.110.10 ..

Therefore, that sacred field must indeed be resorted to with every effort / by humans desiring liberation; this truth has been spoken by me. (10)

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5.109.11

.. sūta uvāca .. ..
etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātamaṣṭaṣaṣṭisamudbhavam ..
samuccayaṃ dvijaśreṣṭhā nāmadevasamanvitam .. 11 ..

Sūta said: / All this collection originating from the sixty-eight [sacred fords], / accompanied by the names and the deities, has been narrated to you, O best of brahmins. (11)

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5.109.11_1

yathā devena cākhyātaṃ pārvatyā guhyamuttamam ..
prasannena mayā kṛtsnaṃ yuṣmākaṃ samudāhṛtam ...2..

Just as this supreme secret was told by the God to Pārvatī, / [so] being pleased, the whole has been declared by me to you. (12)

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5.109.13

yaścaitatpaṭhate bhaktyā hyaṣṭaṣaṣṭisamudbhavam ..
snānajaṃ labhate puṇyaṃ śṛṇvānaḥ śraddhayānvitaḥ .. 13 ..

And whoever recites with devotion this [hymn] arising from the sixty-eight, / or listens [to it] endowed with faith, obtains the merit born of bathing [in them]. (13)

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5.109.110

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe śrīhāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya 'ṣṭaṣaṣṭitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma daśottaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 110 ..

Thus ends the one hundred and tenth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Sixty-Eight Tīrthas,' in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Śrī Hāṭakeśvara, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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