Skandapurana 5.169
Skandapurāṇa 5.169
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5.169.1
.. sūta uvāca .. ..
tathānyadapi saṃjātamāścaryaṃ yadabhūddvijāḥ ..
viśvāmitreṇa sā śaktirvasiṣṭhāya visarjitā .. 1 ..
Sūta said: / O brahmins, another wonder also occurred: / that spear was dispatched by Viśvāmitra against Vasiṣṭha
5.169.2
vadhārthaṃ tasya viprarṣervasiṣṭhena ca dhīmatā ..
staṃbhitā'tharvaṇairmantraiḥ prasvedaḥ samajāyata..2..
for the slaying of that brahmin-seer; and by the wise Vasiṣṭha / it was immobilized with Atharvan mantras, and perspiration arose [from it].
5.169.3
svedātsamabhavattoyaṃ śītalaṃ tadajāyata..
pādābhyāṃ nirgataṃ toyamatra dṛśyamajāyata ..3..
From the perspiration water arose, and it became cool. / Water issuing from her two feet became visible here.
5.169.4
vidārya bhūmiṃ saṃjātā jaladhārā suśītalā ..
nirmalaṃ pāvanaṃ svacchaṃ gaṃgāṃbha iva niḥsṛtam .. 4 .. gaṃ
Tearing through the earth, a very cool stream of water arose; / pure, sanctifying, clear, it issued forth like the water of the Gaṅgā.
5.169.5
gā pratyakṣatāṃ yātā tīrthaiḥ sarvaiḥ samanvitā..
pūritaṃ vāriṇā kuṇḍaṃ nirmalaṃ śītalaṃ śivam .. 5 ..
Gaṅgā became manifest, accompanied by all the sacred fords; / the pool was filled with clear, cool, auspicious water.
5.169.6
tasyāṃ yā kurute snānaṃ nārī vaṃdhyā dvijottamāḥ ..
sadyaḥ putravatī sā syādraudre kaliyuge dvijāḥ .. 6 ..
A barren woman who performs a ritual ablution in it, O best of brahmins, / quickly becomes endowed with a son, O brahmins, in the dreadful Kali age.
5.169.7
anyo'pi kurute snānaṃ sarvatīrthaphalaṃ labhet ..7..
Another person who performs a ritual ablution obtains the fruit of all sacred fords.
5.169.8
snātvā tatra tu yo devīṃ paśyecca vidhinā naraḥ ..
dhanaṃ dhānyaṃ tathā putrānrājyotthaṃ ca sukhaṃ labhet .. ..8..
Having bathed there, whatever man sees the goddess according to rule / obtains wealth, grain, sons, and the happiness born of kingship.
5.169.9
yā nārī durbhagā vandhyā sā'pi putravatī bhavet ..
caitre māsi sitāṣṭamyāṃ bhaktiyogasamanvitā ..
mahāniśāyāṃ tatraiva naivedyabalipiṃḍikām..9..
A woman who is unfortunate or barren also becomes endowed with sons. / In the month of Caitra, on the bright eighth lunar day, endowed with the yoga of devotion, / at midnight right there, whatever woman
5.169.10
prasannayā kumāryā tu svayaṃ cā'tha karoti yā ..
gṛhṇāti yā ca vai nārī piṃḍikāṃ balisaṃyutām .. 6.170.10 ..
by means of a pleased virgin makes herself a cake for food offering and oblation, / and whatever woman takes that lump accompanied by the offering—
5.169.11
śatavarṣā tu yā nārī piṃḍikāṃ bhakṣayeddvijāḥ ..
sā'pi putravatī ca syādyadi vṛddhatamā bhavet .. 11 ..
even a woman of a hundred years who eats that cake, O brahmins, / she too would become endowed with a son, even if she be extremely old;
5.169.12
kiṃ punaryauvanopetā saubhāgyena samanvitā ..
putrasaukhyavatī nārī devyā vai darśanena ca .. .. 12 ..
what to say then of a woman endowed with youth, endowed with good fortune? / Endowed with the joy of sons a woman becomes, indeed by the darśana of the goddess.
5.169.13
sarveṣāṃ nāgarāṇāṃ tu bhāvajā devatā smṛtā ..
sā sārdhāṣṭadvipaṃcāśadgotrāṇāṃ kuladevatā .. 13 ..
For all Nāgaras, she is remembered as their deity born of devotion; / she is the family deity of fifty-two and a half gotras.
5.169.14
etasmātkāraṇādyātrā nāgaraiḥ sukṛtā bhavet ..
na vinā nāgarairyātrāṃ tuṣṭiṃ yāti sureśvarī .. 14 ..
For this reason, a pilgrimage by the Nāgaras will be virtuous; / without the pilgrimage by the Nāgaras, the sovereign goddess is not pleased.
5.169.170
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭake śvarakṣetramāhātmye dhārātīrthotpattimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 170 .. ..
Thus ends the one hundred seventieth chapter, entitled “Description of the Māhātmya of the Origin of Dhārātīrtha,” in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section], in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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