[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) › 5.92 # Skandapurana 5.92 Skandapurāṇa 5.92 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.92.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. agnitīrthasya māhātmyametadvaḥ parikīrtitam .. brahmakuṃḍasamutpattiradhunā śrūyatāṃ dvijāḥ .. 1 .. > Sūta said: / “This greatness of Agnitīrtha has been proclaimed to you. / Now let the origin of Brahmakuṇḍa be heard, O twice-born! 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.2) yadā saṃsthāpito brahmā mārkaṃḍena mahātmanā .. tadā vinirmitaṃ tatra kuṇḍaṃ śucijalānvitam .. 2 .. > When Brahmā was installed by the great-souled Mārkaṇḍa, / a pool endowed with pure water was fashioned there at that time. 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.3) proktaṃ ca kārtike māsi kṛttikāsthe niśākare .. samyagbhīṣmavrataṃ kṛtvā snātvātra salile śubhe .. 3 .. > And it was declared: ‘In the month of Kārttika, when the moon is in Kṛttikā, / having properly performed the Bhīṣma vow and bathed here in the auspicious water, 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.4) pūjayiṣyati yo devaṃ padmayoniṃ tataḥ param .. sa śūdro'pi tanuṃ tyaktvā brahmayonau prayāsyati .. 4 .. > whoever then worships the lotus-born god— / even a Śūdra, leaving his body, will go to the womb of a brahmin. 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.5) brāhmaṇo'pi yadi snānaṃ tatra kuṇḍe kariṣyati .. kṛtvā bhīṣmavrataṃ samyagbrahmalokaṃ prayāsyati .. 5 .. > Even a brahmin, if he performs a bath in that pool / after properly undertaking the Bhīṣma vow, will go to Brahmā's world.’ 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.6) evaṃ pravadatastasya mārkaṃḍeyasya sanmuneḥ .. śrutaṃ tatsakalaṃ vākyaṃ paśupālena kenacit .. 6 .. > As that virtuous sage Mārkaṇḍeya was speaking thus, / all that speech was heard by a certain cowherd. 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.7) tataḥ śraddhāprayuktena tena tadbhīṣmapaṃcakam .. yathāvadvihitaṃ samyakkārtike māsi saṃsthite .. 7 .. > Then, moved by faith, he duly performed / that five-day Bhīṣma observance when the month of Kārttika arrived. 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.8) tataśca kṛttikāyoge pūrṇimāyāṃ yathāvidhi .. saṃpūjya padmajaṃ paścātpūjitaḥ puruṣottamaḥ .. 8 .. > Then, on the full moon day in conjunction with Kṛttikā, having worshipped / the lotus-born according to rule, he afterwards worshipped Puruṣottama. 8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.9) tataḥ kālavipākena sa paṃcatvamupāgataḥ .. brāhmaṇasya gṛhe jātaḥ pure'traiva dvijottamāḥ .. jātismaraḥ prabhāyuktaḥ pitṛmātṛpratuṣṭidaḥ .. 9 .. > Then, by the ripening of time, he met his death, / and was born in the house of a brahmin in this very city, O best of the twice-born, / remembering his past life, endowed with splendor, bringing delight to his father and mother. 9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.10) evaṃ pragacchatastasya vṛddhiṃ tatra purottame .. pitṛmātṛsamudbhūto yādṛksneho vyavasthitaḥ .. 6.92.10 .. > While he was thus growing up in that excellent city, / the same kind of affection he had for his father and mother 10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.11) anyadehodbhave vāpi tasya śūdreparisthitaḥ .. sa tasya dhanasaṃpannaḥ sadaiva kurute dvijaḥ .. 11 .. > he maintained also toward the Śūdra \[father\] born of his other body; / rich in wealth, that twice-born man continually rendered 11 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.12) upakārapradānaṃ ca yatkiṃcittasya saṃmatam .. anyasmindivase śūdraḥ sa pitā pūrvajanmanaḥ .. tasya pañcatvamāpannaḥ saṃprāpte cāyuṣaḥ kṣaye .. 12 .. > benefactions and whatever was agreeable to him. / On another day, that Śūdra who had been his father in his previous life / met his death when the end of his lifespan arrived. 12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.13) atha tasya mahāśokaṃ sa kṛtvā tadanaṃtaram .. cakāra pretakāryāṇi niḥśeṣāṇi prabhaktitaḥ .. 13 .. > Then, having grieved greatly for him, he immediately thereafter / performed all the funerary rites with great devotion. 13 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.14) atha tasya samālokya tādṛśaṃ tadviceṣṭitam .. pṛṣṭaḥ sa kautukāviṣṭaiḥ pitṛmātṛsutādibhiḥ .. 14 .. > Then, seeing that conduct of his, / his father, mother, sons, and others, filled with curiosity, questioned him: 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.15) kasmāttvamasya nīcasya paśupālasya sarvadā .. atisnehasamāyukto niḥspṛhasyāpi śaṃsa naḥ .. 15 .. > ‘Why are you always full of excessive affection toward this base cowherd, / who was not even related to you? Tell us! 15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.16) tasyāpi pretakāryāṇi mṛtasyāpi karoṣi kim .. etannaḥ sarvamācakṣva na cedguhyaṃ vyavasthitam .. 16 .. > Why do you even perform the funerary rites for him now that he is dead? / Tell us all this, unless it is a secret.’ 16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.17) teṣāṃ tadvacanaṃ śrutvā kiṃcillajjāsamanvitaḥ .. tānabravīcchṛṇudhvaṃ ca kathayiṣyāmyasaṃśayam .. 17 .. > Hearing their words, he, feeling somewhat ashamed, / said to them: ‘Listen, and I will tell you without a doubt.’ 17 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.18) ahamasyānyadehatve putra āsaṃ susaṃmataḥ .. paśupālanakarmajñaḥ prāṇebhyo vallabhaḥ sadā .. 18 .. > In his other body, I was his beloved son, / skilled in the work of cattle-rearing and dearer to him than life itself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.19) kasyacittvatha kālasya mārkaṃḍasya mahāmuneḥ .. śrutaṃ pravadato vākyaṃ brahmakuṇḍasamudbhavam .. 19 .. > Then, after some time, words uttered by the great sage Mārkaṇḍeya / were heard concerning the origin of Brahmakuṇḍa: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.20) kārtikyāṃ kṛttikāyoge bhīṣmapañcakakṛnnaraḥ .. samyakchraddhāsamutpanno yo'tra snānaṃ kariṣyati .. 6.92.20 .. > “On the full moon day of Kārttika, when the moon is in Kṛttikā, a person who observes the Bhīṣmapañcaka / and, filled with perfect faith, bathes here, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.21) dṛṣṭvā pitāmahaṃ devaṃ pūjayitvā janārdanam .. sa bhaviṣyati śūdro'pi brāhmaṇaścānyajanmani .. 21 .. > having seen God Pitāmaha and worshipped Janārdana, / will become a brahmin in another birth, even if he were a śūdra.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.22) tanmayā vihitaṃ samyaksnātvā tatra śubhāvahe .. sukuṇḍe kārtike māsi tena jāto'smi saddvijaḥ .. 22 .. > Therefore, having duly bathed there in that auspicious, / noble pool in the month of Kārttika, I was born as a true twice-born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.23) candrodayasya viprarṣeranvaye bhuvi viśrute .... saṃsmaranpūrvikāṃ jāti tena sneho mama sthitaḥ .. tasyopari mahānnityaṃ śūdrasyāpi nirargalaḥ .. 23 .. > In the renowned lineage of the brahmin seer Candrodaya on earth, / remembering my former birth, great and unrestrained affection / has thus always remained in me toward him, even though he was a śūdra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.24) ato'haṃ kṛttikāyoge kārtikyāṃ bhaktisaṃyutaḥ .. jñātvā karomi bhīṣmasya paṃcakaṃ vratamuttamam .. 24 .. > Therefore, endowed with devotion, knowing \[this\], on the full moon day of Kārttika / in the conjunction with Kṛttikā, I observe the supreme vow of Bhīṣma’s five days. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.25) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evaṃ tasya vacaḥ śrutvā te cānye ca dvijottamāḥ ... bhīṣmasya pañcakaṃ cakruḥ samyakchraddhāsamanvitāḥ. 25 .. > Sūta said: / Having heard his words, those and other foremost twice-born / observed Bhīṣma’s five days, filled with perfect faith. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.26) tataḥprabhṛti tatkuṇḍaṃ vikhyātaṃ dharaṇītale .. sthitamuttaradigbhāge brahmakuṇḍamiti smṛtam .. 26 .. > From then on, that pool became renowned on the surface of the earth, / situated in the northern direction and known as Brahmakuṇḍa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.27) yaḥ snānaṃ sarvadā tatra brāhmaṇaḥ prakaroti vai .. sa saṃbhavati vipreṃdro jāyamānaḥ punaḥ punaḥ .. 27 .. > A brahmin who always bathes there / indeed becomes a prince among brahmins in birth after birth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.92.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.92.92) itiśrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye brahmakuṇḍamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvinavatitamodhyāyaḥ ..92.. .. > Thus ends the ninety-second chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Brahmakuṇḍa’, in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[part\] of the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa. > — English (machine 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