Skandapurana 6.3.127
Skandapurāṇa 6.3.127
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6.3.127.p1
adhyāya 127
Chapter 127
6.3.127.1
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra agnitīrthamanuttamam .
tatra snātvā tu pakṣādau mucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ .. 127.1 ..
Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king of kings, to the unsurpassed Agnitīrtha. / Having bathed there at the start of a fortnight, one is freed from all sins.
6.3.127.2
tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ kanyāṃ dadyātsvayamalaṃkṛtām .
tasya yatphalamuddiṣṭaṃ tacchṛṇuṣva narottama .. 127.2 ..
Whoever gives away a maiden there at that sacred ford, herself adorned, / hear the fruit declared for him, O best of men:
6.3.127.3
agniṣṭomātirātrābhyāṃ śataṃ śataguṇīkṛtam .
prāpnoti puruṣo dattvā yathāśaktyā hyalaṃkṛtām .. 127.3 ..
A man obtains a hundred times a hundredfold [the fruit] of the Agniṣṭoma and Atirātra [sacrifices], / having given her away, adorned according to his ability.
6.3.127.4
tasyāḥ putraprapautrāṇāṃ yā bhavedromasaṃgatiḥ .
sa yāti tena mānena śivaloke parāṃ gatim .. 127.4 ..
As many as the hairs of her sons and grandsons may be, / by that measure he attains the supreme state in the world of Śiva.
6.3.127.4_2
.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe agnitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptaviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..
Thus ends the one hundred twenty-seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford Agnitīrtha', in the Revā Section of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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