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# Skandapurana 6.3.125

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.125

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.125.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.p1)

adhyāya 125

> Chapter 125  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchenmahīpāla ravitīrthamanuttamam .  
yatra devaḥ sahasrāṃśustapastaptvā divaṃ gataḥ .. 125.1 ..

> Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the unsurpassed Ravitīrtha, / where the thousand-rayed god, having performed austerity, went to heaven.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.2)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
kathaṃ devo jagaddhātā sarvadevanamaskṛtaḥ .  
tapastapati deveśastāpaso bhāskaro raviḥ .. 125.2 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said: / How does the god, the creator of the world, bowed to by all deities, / the lord of gods, the ascetic, the light-maker, Ravi, perform austerity?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.3)

ārādhyaḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ sarvadevaiśca pūjitaḥ .  
pratyakṣo dṛśyate loke sṛṣṭisaṃhārakārakaḥ .. 125.3 ..

> He is to be propitiated by all beings, worshipped by all deities, / seen visibly in the world, the cause of creation and destruction.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.4)

ādityatvaṃ kathaṃ prāptaḥ kathaṃ bhāskara ucyate .  
sarvametatsamāsena kathayasva mamānagha .. 125.4 ..

> How did he attain status as Āditya? How is he called Bhāskara? / Tell me all this in brief, O sinless one.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.5)

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
mahāpraśno mahārāja yastvayā paripṛcchitaḥ .  
tatsarvaṃ sampravakṣyāmi namaskṛtya svayambhuvam .. 125.5 ..

> Mārkaṇḍeya said: / This is a great question, O great king, which has been asked by you; / having bowed to the self-born one, I shall tell all of that.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.6)

āsīdidaṃ tamobhūtamaprajñātamalakṣaṇam .  
apratarkyamavijñeyaṃ prasuptamiva sarvataḥ .. 125.6 ..

> This \[universe\] was enveloped in darkness, unperceived, devoid of distinguishing marks, / inconceivable, unknowable, as if completely asleep everywhere.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.7)

tatastejaśca divyaṃ ca taptapiṇḍamanuttamam .  
ākāśāttu yathaivolkā sṛṣṭihetoradhomukhī .. 125.7 ..

> Then \[emerged\] divine brilliance, an unsurpassed heated mass, / falling headlong from the sky for the sake of creation, just like a meteor.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.8)

tattejaso'ntaḥ puruṣaḥ saṃjātaḥ sarvabhūṣitaḥ .  
sa śivo'pāṇipādaśca yena sarvamidaṃ tatam .. 125.8 ..

> Within that brilliance arose the Puruṣa, adorned with all \[ornaments\]; / he is auspicious, without hands and feet, by whom all this is pervaded.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.9)

tasyotpannasya bhūtasya tejo rūpasya bhārata .  
paścātprajāpatirbhūyaḥ kālaḥ kālāntareṇa vai .. 125.9 ..

> From that being of fiery form who had arisen, O descendant of Bharata, / afterwards Prajāpati \[came forth\], and then Time through the course of time.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.10)

agnirjātaḥ sa bhūtānāṃ manuṣyāsurarakṣasām .  
sarvadevādhidevaśca ādityastena cocyate .. 125.10 ..

> He became the fire of creatures, of humans, asuras, and rākṣasas; / he is the supreme deity of all gods, and therefore he is called Āditya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.11)

ādau tasya namaskāro'nyeṣāṃ ca tadanantaram .  
kriyate daivataiḥ sarvaistena sarvairmaharṣibhiḥ .. 125.11 ..

> At the beginning, salutation is made to him, and after that to the others, / by all deities and therefore by all great seers.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.12)

tisraḥ sandhyāstrayo devāḥ sāṃnidhyāḥ sūryamaṇḍale .  
namaskṛtena sūryeṇa sarve devā namaskṛtāḥ .. 125.12 ..

> The three twilights and the three gods have their presence in the solar orb; / when the sun has been bowed down to, all gods have been bowed down to.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.13)

na divā na bhavedrātriḥ ṣaṇmāsā dakṣiṇāyanam .  
ayanaṃ cottaraṃ cāpi bhāskareṇa vinā nṛpa .. 125.13 ..

> There would be no day, no night, no six months of the southern course, / nor the northern course, O king, without the light-maker.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.14)

snānaṃ dānaṃ japo homaḥ svādhyāyo devatārcanam .  
na vartate vinā sūryaṃ tena pūjyatamo raviḥ .. 125.14 ..

> Ablution, giving, recitation, oblation, Vedic study, and worship of deities / do not exist without the sun; therefore Ravi is most worthy of worship.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.15)

śabdagāḥ śrutimukhyāśca brahmaviṣṇumaheśvarāḥ .  
pratyakṣo bhagavāndevo dṛśyate lokapāvanaḥ .. 125.15 ..

> Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara are conveyed through words and chief in the Vedas, / \[but\] the visible lord, the god, the purifier of the worlds, is seen \[as the sun\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.16)

utpattiḥ pralayasthānaṃ nidhānaṃ bījamavyayam .  
hetureko jagannātho nānyo vidyeta bhāskarāt .. 125.16 ..

> The origin, the place of dissolution, the receptacle, the imperishable seed, / the sole cause, the lord of the world—none other than the light-maker is known.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.17)

evamātmabhavaṃ kṛtvā jagatsthāvarajaṅgamam .  
lokānāṃ tu hitārthāya sthāpayeddharmapaddhatim .. 125.17 ..

> Having thus made the world of moving and unmoving beings born from himself, / he established the path of dharma for the welfare of the worlds.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.18)

narmadātaṭamāśritya sthāpayitvātmanastanum .  
sahasrāṃśuṃ nidhiṃ dhāmnāṃ jagāmākāśamavyayam .. 125.18 ..

> Resorting to the bank of the Narmadā, having established his own body / as the thousand-rayed one, the storehouse of splendours, he went to imperishable space.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.19)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayetparameśvaram .  
sahasrakiraṇaṃ devaṃ nāmamantravidhānataḥ .. 125.19 ..

> Whoever, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships the supreme lord, / the thousand-rayed god, according to the rules of name and mantra—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.20)

tena taptaṃ hutaṃ tena tena sarvamanuṣṭhitam .  
tena samyagvidhānena samprāptaṃ paramaṃ padam .. 125.20 ..

> By him has austerity been performed, by him has oblation been offered, by him has everything been accomplished; / by him, through the correct procedure, the supreme abode has been attained.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.21)

te dhanyāste mahātmānasteṣāṃ janma sujīvitam .  
snātvā ye narmadātoye devaṃ paśyanti bhāskaram .. 125.21 ..

> Blessed are they, great-souled are they, well-lived is the life of those / who, having bathed in the waters of the Narmadā, behold the sun-god.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.22)

tathā devasya rājendra ye kurvanti pradakṣiṇam .  
ananyabhaktyā satataṃ trirakṣarasamanvitāḥ .. 125.22 ..

> Likewise, O best of kings, those who circumambulate the god / constantly with undivided devotion, endowed with the three syllables,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.23)

tena pūtaśarīrāste mantreṇa gatapātakāḥ .  
yatpuṇyaṃ ca bhavetteṣāṃ tadihaikamanāḥ śṛṇu .. 125.23 ..

> their bodies purified by that mantra, their sins dispelled— / what merit accrues to them, hear that here with an attentive mind.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.24)

sasamudraguhā tena saśailavanakānanā .  
pradakṣiṇīkṛtā sarvā pṛthivī nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 125.24 ..

> By him has the entire earth, with its oceans and caves, / with its mountains, forests, and woods, been circumambulated; of this there is no doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.25)

mantramūlamidaṃ sarvaṃ trailokyaṃ sacarācaram .  
tena mantravihīnaṃ tu kāryaṃ loke na sidhyati .. 125.25 ..

> All this threefold world, with the moving and the unmoving, is rooted in mantras. / Therefore, an action lacking a mantra is not accomplished in this world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.26)

yathā kāṣṭhamayo hastī yathā carmamayo mṛgaḥ .  
kāryārthaṃ naiva sidhyeta tathā karma hyamantrakam .. 125.26 ..

> Just as a wooden elephant or a leather deer / cannot accomplish any practical purpose, so indeed is a rite performed without a mantra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.27)

bhasmahutaṃ pārtha yathā toyavivarjitam .  
niṣphalaṃ jāyate dānaṃ tathā mantravivarjitam .. 125.27 ..

> Just as an oblation poured into ashes, O Pārtha, or a gift given without water, / becomes fruitless, so too is a gift devoid of a mantra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.28)

kāṣṭhapāṣāṇaloṣṭeṣu mṛnmayeṣu viśeṣataḥ .  
mantreṇa loke pūjāṃ tu kurvanti na hyamantrataḥ .. 125.28 ..

> In figures of wood, stone, clods of earth, and especially of clay, / people in this world worship with a mantra, never indeed without a mantra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.29)

dvādaśābdānnamaskārādbhaktyā yallabhate phalam .  
mantrayuktanamaskārātsakṛttallabhate phalam .. 125.29 ..

> The fruit one obtains from prostration with devotion for twelve years, / one obtains all at once from a single prostration joined with a mantra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.30)

saṃkrāntau ca vyatīpāte ayane viṣuve tathā .  
narmadāyā jale snātvā yastu pūjayate ravim .. 125.30 ..

> At a solstice, at a vyatīpāta, at the sun's passage, or at an equinox, / he who bathes in the water of the Narmadā and worships the sun,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.31)

dvādaśābdena yatpāpamajñānajñānasaṃcitam .  
tatkṣaṇānnaśyate sarvaṃ vahninā tu tuṣaṃ yathā .. 125.31 ..

> whatever sin has been accumulated through ignorance or knowledge over twelve years / is completely destroyed in an instant, like chaff by fire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.32)

candrasūryagrahe snātvā sopavāso jitendriyaḥ .  
tatrādityamukhaṃ dṛṣṭvā mucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ .. 125.32 ..

> Having bathed during an eclipse of the moon or the sun, fasting and with senses controlled, / beholding the face of the sun there, he is freed from all sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.33)

māghamāse tu samprāpte saptamyāṃ nṛpasattama .  
sopavāso jitakrodha uṣitvā sūryamandire .. 125.33 ..

> When the month of Māgha arrives, on the seventh day, O best of kings, / fasting, with anger conquered, having stayed in the temple of the sun,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.34)

prātaḥ snātvā vidhānena dadātyarghaṃ divākare .  
vidhinā mantrayuktena sa labhetpuṇyamuttamam .. 125.34 ..

> bathing at dawn according to rule and offering an arghya to the sun / according to the rite endowed with a mantra, he attains supreme merit.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.35)

pitṛdevamanuṣyāṇāṃ kṛtvā hyudakatarpaṇam .  
mandire devadevasya tataḥ pūjāṃ samācaret .. 125.35 ..

> Having performed the water-tarpaṇa for the ancestors, gods, and men, / he should then perform worship in the temple of the god of gods.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.36)

gandhaiḥ puṣpaistathā dhūpairdīpanaivedyaśobhanaiḥ .  
pūjayitvā jagannāthaṃ tato mantramudīrayet .. 125.36 ..

> Having worshipped the Lord of the World with perfumes, flowers, incenses, / and splendid lamps and food-offerings, he should then utter the mantra:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.37)

viṣṇuḥ śakro yamo dhātā mitro'tha varuṇastathā .  
vivasvānsavitā pūṣā caṇḍāṃśurbharga eva ca .. 125.37 ..

> “Viṣṇu, Śakra, Yama, Dhātṛ, Mitra, and Varuṇa; / Vivasvant, Savitṛ, Pūṣan, Caṇḍāṃśu, and Bharga.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.38)

iti dvādaśanāmāni japankṛtvā pradakṣiṇām .  
yatphalaṃ labhate pārtha tadihaikamanāḥ śṛṇu .. 125.38 ..

> Reciting these twelve names and performing circumambulation, / what fruit one obtains, O Pārtha, hear that here with an attentive mind.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.39)

daridro vyādhito mūko badhiro jaḍa eva ca .  
na bhavetsapta janmāni ityevaṃ śaṅkaro'bravīt .. 125.39 ..

> He will not be poor, diseased, mute, deaf, or dull / for seven births; thus indeed spoke Śaṃkara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.40)

evaṃ jñātvā vidhānena japanmantraṃ vicakṣaṇaḥ .  
ārādhayedraviṃ bhaktyā ya icchetpuṇyamuttamam .. 125.40 ..

> Knowing this, repeating the mantra according to the rite, the wise man / who desires supreme merit should worship the sun with devotion.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.41)

mantrahīnāṃ tu yaḥ kuryādbhaktiṃ devasya bhārata .  
sa viḍambati cātmānaṃ paśukīṭapataṅgavat .. 125.41 ..

> He who offers devotion to the god devoid of mantras, O Bhārata, / merely mocks himself like a beast, a worm, or a moth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.42)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ kaścittyajate dehamuttamam .  
sa gatastatra devaistu pūjyamāno maharṣibhiḥ .. 125.42 ..

> Whoever abandons his excellent body at that sacred ford, / having gone there, being worshipped by gods and great seers,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.43)

svecchayā suciraṃ kālamiha loke nṛpo bhavet .. 125.43 ..

> by his own will for a very long time, will become a king in this world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.44)

putrapautrasamāyukto hastyaśvarathasaṅkulaḥ .  
dāsīdāsaśatopeto jāyate vipule kule .. 125.44 ..

> Joined with sons and grandsons, crowded with elephants, horses, and chariots, / attended by hundreds of female and male servants, he is born in an exalted family.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.125.44\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.125.44_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ravitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma pañcaviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-fifth chapter, named the Description of the Māhātmya of Ravitīrtha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the compilation of eighty-one thousand \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.125.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.125.1) — Sanskrit

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