[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) › 6.3.126 # Skandapurana 6.3.126 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.126 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.126.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.p1) adhyāya 126 > Chapter 126 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.1) mārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tato gacchettu rājendra paraṃ tīrthamayonijam . snātamātro narastatra na paśyedyonisaṅkaṭam .. 126.1 .. > Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O best of kings, one should go to the supreme sacred ford Ayonija. / Merely upon bathing there, a person will not behold the distress of rebirth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.2) tatra tīrthe naraḥ snātvā pūjayeddevamīśvaram . ayonijo mahādeva yathā tvaṃ parameśvara .. 126.2 .. > Having bathed at that sacred ford, a person should worship the god Īśvara: / “Just as you, O Mahādeva, O Parameśvara, are not born from a womb, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.3) tathā mocaya māṃ deva sambhavādyonisaṅkaṭāt . gandhapuṣpādidhūpaiśca sa mucyetsarvapātakaiḥ .. 126.3 .. > so deliver me, O god, from existence and the distress of rebirth!” / \[Worshipping\] with perfumes, flowers, incenses, and the like, he is freed from all sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.4) tasya devasya yo bhaktyā kurute liṅgapūraṇam . sa vaseddevadevasya yāvatsikthasya saṃkhyayā .. 126.4 .. > Whoever with devotion fills the liṅga of that god \[with grains of boiled rice\], / dwells near the god of gods for as many \[years\] as the count of rice-grains. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.5) ayonije mahādevaṃ snāpayedgandhavāriṇā . madhukṣīreṇa dadhnā vā sa labhedvipulāṃ śriyam .. 126.5 .. > At Ayonija, one should bathe Mahādeva with scented water, / or with honey, milk, or curd; he attains abundant fortune. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.6) aṣṭabhyāṃ ca site pakṣe asitāṃ vā caturdaśīm . pūjayitvā mahādevaṃ prīṇayedgītavādyakaiḥ .. 126.6 .. > On the eighth day of the bright fortnight, or on the dark fourteenth day, / having worshipped Mahādeva, he should please him with songs and instrumental music. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.7) vasetsa ca śive loke ye kurvanti manoharam . te vasanti śive loke yāvadābhūtasamplavam .. 126.7 .. > He shall dwell in the world of Śiva. Those who make it delightful, / dwell in the world of Śiva until the universal dissolution. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.8) tasya devasya bhaktyā tu yaḥ karoti pradakṣiṇām . vijñāpayaṃśca satataṃ mantreṇānena bhārata .. 126.8 .. > Whoever circumambulates that god with devotion, / constantly addressing \[him\] with this mantra, O Bhārata— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.9) tasya yatphalamuddiṣṭaṃ pāramparyeṇa mānavaiḥ . sakāśāddevadevasya tacchṛṇuṣva samādhinā .. 126.9 .. > what fruit has been proclaimed by men through tradition / in the presence of that god of gods, hear that with concentration: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.10) ayonijo mahādeva yathā tvaṃ parameśvara . tathā mocaya māṃ śarva sambhavādyonisaṅkaṭāt .. 126.10 .. > “Just as you, O Mahādeva, O Parameśvara, are not born from a womb, / so deliver me, O Śarva, from existence and the distress of rebirth!” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.11) kiṃ tasya bahubhirmantraiḥ kaṃṭhaśoṣaṇatatparaiḥ . yenauṃnamaḥ śivāyeti proktaṃ devasya saṃnidhau .. 126.11 .. > What need has he for many mantras that merely dry the throat, / by whom “Oṃ, homage to Śiva” has been uttered in the presence of the god? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.12) tenādhītaṃ śrutaṃ tena tena sarvamanuṣṭhitam . yenauṃnamaḥ śivāyeti mantrābhyāsaḥ sthirīkṛtaḥ .. 126.12 .. > By him has been studied, by him has been heard, by him has everything been accomplished, / by whom the practice of the mantra “Oṃ, homage to Śiva” has been made firm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.13) na tatphalamavāpnoti sarvadeveṣu vai dvijaḥ . yatphalaṃ samavāpnoti ṣaḍakṣara udīraṇāt .. 126.13 .. > A twice-born does not obtain that fruit from all the gods / which he obtains from uttering the six-syllabled \[mantra\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.14) tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayecchivayoginam . dvijānāmayutaṃ sāgraṃ sa labhetphalamuttamam .. 126.14 .. > Whoever, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships a Śivayogin, / obtains the excellent fruit of \[feeding\] fully ten thousand twice-born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.15) athavā bhaktiyuktastu teṣāṃ dānte jitendriye . saṃskṛtya dadate bhikṣāṃ phalaṃ tasya tato'dhikam .. 126.15 .. > Or, filled with devotion, preparing alms, gives them to those who are restrained and self-controlled, / the fruit for him is greater than that. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.16) yatihaste jalaṃ dadyādbhikṣāṃ dattvā punarjalam . sā bhikṣā meruṇā tulyā tajjalaṃ sāgaropamam .. 126.16 .. > One should pour water into the hand of an ascetic, offer alms, and again pour water; / that alms is equal to Mount Meru, that water is like an ocean. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.126.16\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126.16_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ayoniprabhavatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaḍviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the one hundred twenty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford Ayoniprabhava', in the Revā Section of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.126.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.126.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.126) · Pramāṇa