Skandapurana 5.58
Skandapurāṇa 5.58
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5.58.1
.. sūta uvāca .. ..
evaṃ saṃsthāpya gāṃgeyaḥ puṇyaṃ devacatuṣṭayam ..
tataḥ saṃsthāpayāmāsa gaṃgāṃ tripathagāminīm .. 1 ..
Sūta said: / Having thus established the holy group of four deities, / Gāṅgeya then installed the Gaṅgā that flows in three worlds
5.58.2
kūpikāyāṃ mahābhāga śivaliṃgasya pūrvataḥ ..
tataḥ provāca tānhṛṣṭaḥ saṃpūjya dvijasattamān .. 2 ..
in a small well to the east of the Śivaliṅga, O fortunate one. / Then, delighted, having worshipped those best of brahmins, he spoke:
5.58.3
asyāṃ yaḥ puruṣaḥ snānaṃ kṛtvā māṃ vīkṣayiṣyati ..
sarvapāpavinirmuktaḥ śivalokaṃ prayāsyati .. 3 ..
"The person who, having bathed in this, shall behold me, / freed from all sins, shall go to the world of Śiva.
5.58.4
kariṣyati tathā yastu śapathaṃ cātra mānavaḥ ..
asatyaṃ yāsyati kṣipraṃ sa yamasya gṛhaṃ prati .. 4 ..
And whatever human being here takes an oath / that is false, shall quickly go to the house of Yama."
5.58.5
evamuktvā mahābhāgo bhīṣmaḥ kurupitāmahaḥ ..
jagāma svapuraṃ tasmāddharṣeṇa mahatā vṛtaḥ .. 5 ..
Having spoken thus, the fortunate Bhīṣma, grandfather of the Kurus, / departed thence to his own city, filled with great joy.
5.58.6
.. sūta uvāca ..
tatrāsīcchūdrasaṃbhūtaḥ pauṃḍrakonāma nāmataḥ ..
bālabhāve samaṃ mitraiḥ sa krīḍati divāniśam .. 6 ..
Sūta said: / There was a man born of a Śūdra named Pauṇḍraka. / In his childhood he played day and night with his friends.
5.58.7
hāsyabhāvācca mitrasya pustakaṃ tena coritam ..
mitraiḥ pṛṣṭaḥ pauṇḍrakaḥ sa prāha naiva mayā hṛtam .. 7 ..
And in jest a book of his friend was stolen by him. / Questioned by his friends, that Pauṇḍraka said, 'It was not taken by me at all!
5.58.8
pustakaṃ caiva yuṣmākaṃ cintanīyaṃ sadaiva tat ..
bhavadbhiryatnamāsthāya dṛśyatāṃ kvāpi pustakam .. 8 ..
You should always look after that book of yours. / Making an effort, you should look for the book somewhere else!'
5.58.9
kṛtāśca śapathāstatra snātvā bhāgīrathījale ..
aduṣṭacetasā tena dattaṃ tatpustakaṃ hṛtam .. 9 ..
And having bathed there in the water of the Bhāgīrathī, oaths were taken [by him]. / Without wicked intention, that stolen book was then returned by him,
5.58.10
punaśca ruciraṃ hāsyaṃ kṛtvā tena samaṃ bahu ..
athāsāvabhavatkuṣṭhī tatkṣaṇādeva garhitaḥ .. 6.58.10 ..
and again he made much charming laughter together with him. / Then he became a leper, instantly despised.
5.58.11
sa tyakto bāṃdhavaiḥ sarvaiḥ kalatrairapi vallabhaiḥ ..
tato vairāgyamāpanno bhṛgupātaṃ papāta saḥ .. 11 ..
He was abandoned by all his kinsmen and even by his beloved wives. / Then, having attained dispassion, he threw himself from a cliff.
5.58.12
jātaśca tatprabhāvena kuṣṭhena parivarjitaḥ ..
śāstracauryakṛtāddoṣānmūkarūpaḥ sa hāsyakṛt .. 12 ..
And by the power of that [tīrtha] he was born free of leprosy; / [yet] due to the sin of stealing a text, that jester took the form of a mute.
5.58.13
na kāryaḥ śapathastasmāttasyāgre'pi laghurdvijāḥ ..
api hāsyopacāreṇa ātmanaḥ sukhamicchatā .. 13 ..
Therefore, even in front of it, O brahmins, one desiring happiness for oneself / must not make a frivolous oath, even in jest.
5.58.58
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śivagaṃgāmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma aṣṭapañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 58 .. ..
Thus ends the fifty-eighth chapter, named 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Śivagaṅgā', in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection in the glorious Skanda Purāṇa.
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