Skandapurana 6.3.116
Skandapurāṇa 6.3.116
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6.3.116.p1
adhyāya 116
Chapter 116
6.3.116.1
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
pāṇḍutīrthaṃ tato gacchetsarvapāpavināśanam .
tatra snātvā naro rājanmucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ .. 116.1 ..
Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go to the Pāṇḍutīrtha, which destroys all sins. / Having bathed there, O king, a man is freed from all sins.
6.3.116.2
tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā dāpayetkāñcanaṃ śuciḥ .
bhrūṇahatyādipāpāni naśyante nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 116.2 ..
Whoever, purified, bathes in that sacred ford and has gold given, / sins such as the slaying of an embryo are destroyed; there is no doubt about this.
6.3.116.3
piṇḍodakapradānena vājapeyaphalaṃ labhet .
pitaraḥ pitāmahāśca nṛtyante ca praharṣitāḥ .. 116.3 ..
By the offering of rice-balls and water, one obtains the fruit of a Vājapeya sacrifice. / The fathers and grandfathers dance with great joy.
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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe pāṇḍutīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣoḍaśādhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..
Thus ends the one hundred and sixteenth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Pāṇḍutīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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