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# Skandapurana 6.3.116

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.116

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.116.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.116.p1)

adhyāya 116

> Chapter 116  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.116.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.116.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.116.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.116.3\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.116.3_2)

.. 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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.116.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.116.1) — Sanskrit

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