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# Skandapurana 6.3.104

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.104

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.104.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.p1)

adhyāya 104

> Chapter 104  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchenmahīpālaṃ sauvarṇaśilamuttamam .  
prakhyātamuttare kūle sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 104.1 ..

> Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O protector of the earth, one should go to the excellent Sauvarṇaśila, / famous on the northern bank, causing the destruction of all sins,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.2)

samantācchatapātena munisaṅghaiḥ purā kṛtam .  
revāyāṃ durlabhaṃ sthānaṃ saṅgamasya samīpataḥ .. 104.2 ..

> created in former times by hosts of sages by falling \[from heights\] on all sides, / a place hard to attain on the Revā, near the confluence.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.3)

vibhaktaṃ hastamātraṃ ca puṇyakṣetraṃ narādhipa .  
suvarṇaśilake snātvā pūjayitvā maheśvaram .. 104.3 ..

> It is divided and measures merely a cubit, a sacred field, O ruler of men. / Having bathed at Suvarṇaśilaka and having worshipped the Great Lord,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.4)

natvā tu bhāskaraṃ devaṃ hotavyaṃ ca hutāśane .  
bilvenājyavimiśreṇa bilvapatrairathāpi vā .. 104.4 ..

> and having bowed to the sun god, an offering should be made into the fire / with bilva fruit mixed with ghee, or even with bilva leaves, \[saying:\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.5)

prīyatāṃ me jagannātho vyādhirnaśyatu me dhruvam .  
dvijāya kāñcane datte yatphalaṃ tacchṛṇuṣva me .. 104.5 ..

> "May the Lord of the Universe be pleased with me; may my disease surely be destroyed." / When gold is given to a twice-born, hear from me what the fruit of that is.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.6)

bahusvarṇasya yatproktaṃ yāgasya phalamuttamam .  
tathāsau labhate sarvaṃ kāñcanaṃ yaḥ prayacchati .. 104.6 ..

> Whatever excellent fruit is proclaimed of the sacrifice with abundant gold, / that person who offers gold obtains all of that.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.7)

tena dānena pūtātmā mṛtaḥ svargamavāpnuyāt .  
rudrasyānucarastāvadyāvadindrāścaturdaśa .. 104.7 ..

> Purified in soul by that gift, upon death he would attain heaven; / he is an attendant of Rudra as long as fourteen Indras \[endure\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.8)

tataḥ svargāvatīrṇastu jāyate viśade kule .  
dhanadhānyasamopetaḥ punaḥ smarati tajjalam .. 104.8 ..

> Then, having descended from heaven, he is born in a pure family; / endowed with wealth and grain, he remembers that water again.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.104.8\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.104.8_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe suvarṇaśilātīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma caturadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and fourth chapter, named "Description of the Māhātmya of the Suvarṇaśilā Sacred Ford," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.104.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.104.1) — Sanskrit

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