[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 5.57 # Skandapurana 5.57 Skandapurāṇa 5.57 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.57.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. tasminkṣetre tathādityaḥ sthāpito dvijasattamāḥ .. bhīṣmeṇa brāhmaṇeṃdrāṇāṃ saṃmatena tathātmanā .. 1 .. > Sūta said: / In that sacred field, O best of brahmins, the sun was likewise established / by Bhīṣma, in agreement with the foremost of brahmins, and through his own will. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.2) śaṃtanordayitaḥ putro gāṃgeya iti viśrutaḥ .. āsītpurā varo nṛṇāmūrdhvaretāḥ suviśrutaḥ .. 2 .. > Formerly, there was a beloved son of Śaṃtanu, renowned as Gāṅgeya, / the best of men, celebrated as one whose semen flows upward (ūrdhvaretas). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.3) tasyāsīttumulaṃ yuddhaṃ bhārgaveṇa samaṃ mahat .. trayoviṃśaddinānyeva devāsuraraṇopamam.. aṃbākṛte śitaiḥ śastrairastraiśca tadanaṃtaram.. 3 .. > A fierce, great battle occurred between him and the descendant of Bhṛgu (Bhārgava) / for twenty-three days, resembling a war between gods and asuras, / on account of Ambā, with sharp weapons and missiles thereafter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.4) tato brahmādayo devāḥ svayameva vyavasthitāḥ .. tābhyāṃ nivāraṇārthāya śāṃtyarthaṃ sarvadehinān .. gatāśca te samutthāpya punareva triviṣṭapam .. 4 .. > Then the gods, headed by Brahmā, stood between them on their own / to restrain those two, for the pacification of all embodied beings; / and having raised them up, they went again to heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.5) aṃbāpi prāpya paramaṃ gāṃgeyotthaṃ parābhavam .. praviṣṭā koparaktākṣī susamiddhe hutāśane..5.. > Ambā, too, having suffered supreme humiliation arising from Gāṅgeya, / entered a blazing fire, her eyes red with fury. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.6) bhartsayitvā nadīputraṃ bāṣpavyākulalocanā.. tataḥprovāca madhyasthā vahneḥ kurupitāmaham..6.. > Having reviled the son of the river (Gāṅgeya), her eyes clouded with tears, / standing in the midst of the fire she then spoke to the grandfather of the Kurus: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.7) yasmādbhīṣma tvayā tyaktā kāmārtāhaṃ sudurmate.. tasmāttava vadhāyāśu bhaviṣyāmi punaḥ kṣitau..7.. > “Since I, afflicted by desire, was rejected by you, O Bhīṣma, O evil-minded one, / therefore I shall be born again on earth swiftly for your slaying. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.8) strīhatyayā samāyuktastvaṃ ca nūnaṃ bhaviṣyasi.. pramāṇaṃ yadi dharmo'tra smṛtiśāstrasamudbhavaḥ .. 8 .. > And you will surely be tainted with the sin of killing a woman, / if the dharma arising from the smṛti scriptures is authoritative here.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.9) tataḥ sa ghṛṇayā''viṣṭo bhīṣmaḥ kurupitāmahaḥ .. mārkaṃḍeyaṃ muniśreṣṭhaṃ papraccha vinayānvitaḥ..9.. > Then Bhīṣma, the grandfather of the Kurus, seized with remorse, / humbly questioned the best of sages, Mārkaṇḍeya: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.10) bhagavankāśirājasya sutayā me prajalpitam .. mama mṛtyukaraṃ pāpaṃ sakalaṃ te bhaviṣyati .. 6.57.10 .. > “O venerable one, by the daughter of the king of Kāśi it was proclaimed to me: / ‘All the sin causing your death will fall upon you.’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.11) tatkiṃ syādvākyamātreṇa no vā brāhmaṇasattama .. atra me saṃśayastattvaṃ yathāvadvaktumarhasi.. 11 .. > Could that be so by mere words, or not, O best of brahmins? / In this matter I have a doubt; you ought to tell me the truth properly.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.12) .. śrīmārkaṃḍeya uvāca .. .. ākṣiptastāḍito vāpi yamuddiśya tyajedasūn .. strījano vā dvijo vāpi tasya pāpaṃ tu tadbhavet .. 12 .. > The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / “Against whomever reviled or struck, a woman or a brahmin gives up life / on his account, that sin indeed belongs to him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.13) striyaṃ vā brāhmaṇaṃ vāpi tasmānnaiva prakopayet .. nighnaṃtaṃ vā śapaṃtaṃ vā yadīcchecchubhamātmanaḥ .. 13 .. > Therefore one should never enrage a woman or a brahmin, / whether striking or cursing, if one desires welfare for oneself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.13\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.13_1) tvayā punarvarākī sā kāmārtā samupekṣitā .. jitvā svayaṃvare pūrvaṃ tatkathaṃ syānna pāpabhāk ...4.. > Moreover, by you that wretched woman, afflicted by desire, was neglected, / having won her formerly at a bridegroom-choice (svayaṃvara); how then could you not partake of the sin?” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.15) .. bhīṣma uvāca .. .. tadarthaṃ vada me brahmanprāyaścittaṃ viśuddhaye .. tapo vā yadi vā dānaṃ vrataṃ niyamameva vā .. 15 .. > Bhīṣma said: / “For that reason, tell me, O brahmin, the expiation for purification— / whether austerity, or a gift, a vow, or a religious observance.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.16) .. mārkaṃḍeya uvāca .. .. daśānāṃ brāhmaṇeṃdrāṇāṃ yadvadhe pātakaṃ smṛtam .. tatpāpaṃ strīvadhe kṛtsnaṃ jāyate bharatarṣabha .. 16 .. > Mārkaṇḍeya said: / “The guilt that is stated for the slaying of ten eminent brahmins, / all that sin arises in the slaying of a woman, O bull of the Bharatas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.17) tadatra viṣaye dānaṃ na tapo na vratādikam .. tīrthasevāṃ parityajya tasmāttvaṃ tāṃ samācara .. 17 .. > In this matter there is no gift, no austerity, no vow and the like \[that avails\], / apart from serving sacred fords; therefore perform that.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.17\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.17_2) .. .. sūta uvāca .. .. sa tasya vacanaṃ śrutvā bhīṣmaḥ kurupitāmahaḥ .. tīrthayātrāparo bhūtvā babhrāma kṣitimaṃḍale...8.. > Sūta said: / Hearing his words, Bhīṣma, the grandfather of the Kurus, / devoted to pilgrimage to sacred fords, wandered across the circle of the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.19) tataḥ kramātsamāyāto bhramamāṇo mahītale .. camatkārapure kṣetre nānātīrthasamākule .. 19 .. > Then, wandering over the surface of the earth, he came in due course / to the sacred field of Camatkārapura, crowded with various sacred fords. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.20) athāpaśyanmahātmā sa supuṇyaṃ tadgayāśiraḥ .. snātvā śrāddhaṃ ca vidhivadyāvacchraddhāsama nvitaḥ .. 6.57.20 .. > Then that great soul saw the very holy Gayāśiras there; / having bathed, just as he was endowed with faith, in accordance with the rules for an ancestral rite (śrāddha), > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.21) cakre tāvannabhovāṇī vākyametaduvāca ha .. bhīṣmabhīṣma mahābāho nārhastvaṃ śrāddhajaṃ vidhim .. 21 .. > performed it, a voice from the sky spoke this sentence: / ‘O Bhīṣma, Bhīṣma of mighty arms, you are not fit to perform the rite > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.22) kartuṃ strīhatyayāyuktastasmācchṛṇu vaco mama .. śarmiṣṭhātīrthamityeva khyātaṃ pātakanāśanam .. 22 .. > born of śrāddha, tainted as you are with the killing of a woman; therefore hear my words. / There is the renowned sacred ford named Śarmiṣṭhātīrtha, destroyer of sins, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.23) asmātsthānātsamīpasthaṃ vāruṇyāṃ diśi puṇyakṛt .. kṛṣṇāṃgārakaṣaṣṭhyāṃ yo naraḥ snānaṃ samācaret .. 23 .. > near to this place, in the western direction, producing merit. / The man who performs a ritual ablution on the sixth day of the dark fortnight falling on a Tuesday (kṛṣṇāṅgārakaṣaṣṭhī), > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.24) sa strīhatyākṛtātpāpānmucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. tasmādadya dine putra bhaumavārasamanvitā .. 24 .. > is freed from the sin committed through killing a woman; there is no doubt in this. / Therefore, on this day, my son, endowed with Tuesday, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.25) saiva ṣaṣṭhī tithiḥ puṇyā tasmāttatra drutaṃ vraja .. ahaṃ tava pitā putra śaṃtanuḥ pṛthivīpatiḥ .. 25 .. > that very auspicious sixth lunar day is here; therefore go there quickly. / I am your father, O son, Śaṃtanu, the ruler of the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.26) strīhatyayānvitaṃ jñātvā tatastūrṇamihāgataḥ .. tato bhīṣmo drutaṃ gatvā tatra sthāne samāhitaḥ .. 26 .. > Knowing you to be tainted with the killing of a woman, I have come here swiftly.’ / Thereupon Bhīṣma went quickly, composed in mind at that place, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.27) snānaṃ kṛtvā tataḥ śrāddhaṃ cakre śraddhāsamanvitaḥ .. tato bhūyaḥ samāgatya sa taṃ provāca śatanuḥ .. 27 .. > and having performed his ritual ablution, he then performed the śrāddha endowed with faith. / Then, having arrived again, that Śaṃtanu spoke to him: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.28) vipāpmā tvaṃ kuruśreṣṭha saṃjāto'si na saṃśayaḥ .. tasmānnijaṃ gṛhaṃ gaccha rājyaciṃtāṃ samācara .. 28 .. > "O best of Kurus, you have become free from sin, there is no doubt. / Therefore, go to your own home and attend to the affairs of the kingdom." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.29) tataḥ sa vismayāviṣṭo jñātvā tīrthamanuttamam .. vāsudevātmikāmarcāṃ tathānyāṃ kurusattamaḥ .. 29 .. > Then, filled with wonder and knowing it to be an unsurpassed sacred ford, that best of the Kurus \[installed\] an image of Vāsudeva, and another, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.30) pārijātamayīṃ mūrtiṃ raverlakṣaṇalakṣitām .. supramāṇāṃ surūpāṃ ca śraddhāpūtena cetasā .. 6.57.30 .. > an image of the Sun made of pārijāta wood, endowed with the \[prescribed\] characteristics, / with good proportions and beautiful form, with a mind purified by faith. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.31) tathānyatsthāpayāmāsa liṃgaṃ devasya śūlinaḥ .. durgāṃ ca bhaktisaṃyukto vidhidṛṣṭena karmaṇā .. 31 .. > Likewise, endowed with devotion, according to the rites prescribed by rule, / he installed another liṅga of the trident-bearing God, and \[an image of\] Durgā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.32) tataḥ sarvānsamāhūya sa viprānpurasaṃbhavān .. provāca kauravo bhīṣmo vinayāvanataḥ sthitaḥ .. 32 .. > Then, having summoned all the brahmins born in that town, / the Kaurava Bhīṣma stood bowed with humility and spoke: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.33) mayā vinirmitaṃ viprā devāgāracatuṣṭayam .. etatkṣetre ca yuṣmākaṃ dayāṃ kṛtvā mamopari .. 33 .. > "O brahmins, four temples of the gods have been constructed by me / in this sacred field. Showing compassion toward me, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.34) pālayadhvaṃ prayāsyāmi svagṛhaṃ prati satvaram.. preritaḥ pitṛbhirdivyaiḥ svargamārgasamāśritaiḥ .. 34 .. > protect them. I shall depart swiftly to my own home, / impelled by my divine ancestors who abide on the path to heaven." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.35) .. brāhmaṇā ūcuḥ .. .. gacchagaccha kuruśreṣṭha suviśrabdhaḥ svamāyayā .. vayaṃ sarve kariṣyāmo yuṣmacchreyo'bhivardhanam .. 35 .. > The brahmins said: / "Go, go, O best of Kurus, fully confident by your own power! / We all shall bring about the increase of your prosperity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.36) devaśreṇiriyaṃ rājanyā tvayātra vinirmitā .. asyāḥ pūjādikaṃ sarvaṃ kariṣyāmaḥ sadā vayam.. 36 .. > O king, this series of deities that has been established here by you— / we will always perform all their worship and rites. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.37) tavāpi vinayaṃ dṛṣṭvā parituṣṭā vayaṃ nṛpa .. sarvānprārthaya tasmāttvaṃ varaṃ svaṃ manasi sthitam ..37 .. > Seeing your humility as well, O king, we are exceedingly pleased. / Therefore, ask of all of us a boon that resides in your heart." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.37\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.37_3) .. bhīṣma uvāca .. .. eṣa eva varo'smākaṃ yatsaṃtuṣṭā dvijottamāḥ .. tathāpyāśu vacaḥ kāryaṃ yuṣmadīyaṃ mayādhunā .. 38 .1 > Bhīṣma said: / "This alone is my boon, that the best of brahmins are pleased. / Nevertheless, your word must now be carried out quickly by me: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.39) etāni devasadmāni madīyāni naro bhuvi .. yo yaṃ kāmamabhidhyāya pūjayecchraddhayā'nvitaḥ .. prasādādeva yuṣmākaṃ tasya tatsyādasaṃśayam .. 39 .. > Whatever desire a human being on earth may contemplate, and full of faith / worship in these temples of mine—by your grace alone, / that desire will surely be his, without doubt." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.40) .. brāhmaṇā ūcuḥ .. .. ādityasya kariṣyāmo yātrāṃ bhādrapade vayam .. saptamyāṃ sūryavāreṇa sarvadaiva samāhitāḥ .. 6.57.40 .. > The brahmins said: / "In the month of Bhādrapada we shall perform the pilgrimage-festival of the Sun / on the seventh day falling on a Sunday, remaining always attentive; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.41) tathā śivasya cāṣṭamyāṃ caitraśukle viśeṣataḥ .. caturdaśyāṃ mahābhāga tava snehānna saṃśayaḥ .. 41 .. > and of Śiva on the eighth day, especially during the bright fortnight of Caitra; / \[and\] on the fourteenth day, O fortunate one, out of love for you, without a doubt; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.42) śayane bodhane viṣṇoḥ saṃprāpte dvādaśīdine .. viṣṇorapi ca durgāyāḥ saṃprāpte navamīdine ..42.. > when the twelfth day arrives for Viṣṇu's sleeping and waking; / and when the ninth day arrives for both Viṣṇu and Durgā > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.44) āśvine śuklapakṣe ca gītavāditranisvanaiḥ.. mahotsavaṃ tathā citrairhāsyalāsyaiḥ pṛthagvidhaiḥ .. 43... yastatra mānavo nityaṃ śraddhayā parayā yutaḥ .. kariṣyati ca gītādi sa yāsyati parāṃ gatim .. 44 .. > in the bright fortnight of Āśvina, with the sounds of singing and musical instruments, / and a great festival with diverse and wonderful comic acting and graceful dances. / Whatever human being, always endowed with supreme faith, / performs singing and the like there, shall attain the highest state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.45) vayaṃ tasya bhaviṣyāmaḥ sadaiva prītamānasāḥ .. pradāsyāmastathā kāmānmanasā vāṃchitānnṛpa .. .. 45 .. > We shall always be pleased in our minds toward him, / and we shall grant the desires wished for in his heart, O king." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.46) evamuktvātha te viprāḥ svāni sthānāni bhejire .. bhīṣmo'pi harṣasaṃyuktaḥ svagṛhaṃ prasthitastataḥ .. 46 .. > Having spoken thus, those brahmins returned to their own abodes; / and Bhīṣma, filled with joy, departed thence to his own home. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.57.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57.57) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṃḍe śrīhāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye gāṃgeyayātrākhyānaṃnāma saptapañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 57 .. .. cha .. .. > Thus ends the fifty-seventh chapter, named 'The Narration of the Pilgrimage of Gāṅgeya', in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Śrī Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[part\] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection in the glorious Skanda Purāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.57.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.57) · Pramāṇa