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# Skandapurana 6.3.129

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.129

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.129.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.p1)

adhyāya 129

> Chapter 129  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchenmahīpāla brahmatīrthamanuttamam .  
anyeṣāṃ caiva tīrthānāṃ parātparataraṃ mahat .. 129.1 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the unsurpassed Brahmatīrtha, / which is greater than the greatest among the other sacred fords.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.2)

tatra tīrthe suraśreṣṭho brahmā lokapitāmahaḥ .  
caturṇāmapi varṇānāṃ narmadātaṭamāśritaḥ .. 129.2 ..

> At that sacred ford, the best of the gods, Brahmā, the grandfather of the worlds, / has resorted to the bank of the Narmadā for \[the benefit of\] all four classes.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.3)

vācikaṃ mānasaṃ pāpaṃ karmajaṃ yatpurākṛtam .  
tatkṣālayati deveśo darśanādeva pātakam .. 129.3 ..

> Whatever sin has been committed formerly, born of speech, mind, or bodily action, / the lord of the gods washes away that sin merely by being seen.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.4)

śrutismṛtyuditānyeva tatra snātvā dvijarṣabhāḥ .  
prāyaścittāni kurvanti teṣāṃ vāsastriviṣṭape .. 129.4 ..

> Having bathed there, the best of the twice-born perform expiations / declared in the Śruti and Smṛti; their abode is in heaven.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.5)

ye punaḥ śāstramutsṛjya kāmalobhaprapīḍitāḥ .  
prāyaścittaṃ vadiṣyanti te vai nirayagāminaḥ .. 129.5 ..

> Those, on the other hand, who abandon the scriptures and, tormented by desire and greed, / declare an expiation, will indeed go to hell.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.6)

snātvādau pātakī brahmannatvā tu kīrtayedagham .  
tasya tannaśyate kṣipraṃ tamaḥ sūryodaye yathā .. 129.6 ..

> Having bathed first, a sinner, O brahmin, having bowed, should declare his sin; / that \[sin\] of his is quickly destroyed, like darkness at sunrise.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.7)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayetpitṛdevatāḥ .  
agniṣṭomasya yajñasya sa labhetphalamuttamam .. 129.7 ..

> Whoever bathes at that sacred ford and worships the ancestors and the deities, / obtains the excellent fruit of an Agniṣṭoma sacrifice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.8)

tatra tīrthe tu yaddānaṃ brahmoddiśya prayacchati .  
tadakṣayaphalaṃ sarvamityevaṃ śaṅkaro'bravīt .. 129.8 ..

> Whatever gift one gives at that sacred ford dedicated to Brahmā, / all of that has inexhaustible fruit; thus spoke Śaṅkara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.9)

gāyatrīsāramātro'pi tatra yaḥ kriyate japaḥ .  
ṛgyajuḥsāmasahitaḥ sa bhavennātra saṃśayaḥ .. 129.9 ..

> Even if only the essence of the Gāyatrī is recited there in muttered prayer, / it becomes endowed with the Ṛg, Yajur, and Sāma Vedas; of this there is no doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.10)

tatra tīrthe tu yo bhaktyā tyajeddehaṃ sudustyajam .  
anivartikā gatistasya brahmalokānna saṃśayaḥ .. 129.10 ..

> Whoever abandons with devotion the body so hard to abandon at that sacred ford, / his attainment is one that does not return from the world of Brahmā; of this there is no doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.11)

yāvadasthīni tiṣṭhanti brahmatīrthe ca dehinām .  
tāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi devaloke mahīyate .. 129.11 ..

> As long as the bones of embodied beings remain in Brahmatīrtha, / for that many thousands of years one is honored in the world of the gods.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.12)

avatīrṇastato loke brahmajño jāyate kule .  
uttamaḥ sarvavarṇānāṃ devānāmiva devatā .. 129.12 ..

> Having descended from there into the world, he is born in a family of knowers of the Veda, / superior among all the classes, like a deity among the gods.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.13)

vidyāsthānāni sarvāṇi vetti vedāṅgapāragaḥ .  
jāyate pūjito loke rājabhiḥ sa na saṃśayaḥ .. 129.13 ..

> He knows all branches of knowledge and has mastered the auxiliary disciplines of the Veda; / he is born respected in the world by kings, without a doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.14)

putrapautrasamopetaḥ sarvavyādhivivarjitaḥ .  
jīvedvarṣaśataṃ sāgraṃ brahmatīrthaprabhāvataḥ .. 129.14 ..

> Endowed with sons and grandsons, free from all diseases, / he lives for a full hundred years through the power of Brahmatīrtha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.15)

etatpuṇyaṃ pāpaharaṃ tīrthaṃ jñānavatāṃ varam .  
ye paśyanti mahātmāno hyamṛtatvaṃ prayānti te .. 129.15 ..

> This holy sacred ford, which removes sin, is the best for the wise; / the great-souled ones who see it attain immortality.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.129.15\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.129.15_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe brahmatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonatriṃśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ..

> Thus ends the one hundred twenty-ninth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford Brahmatīrtha', 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.6.3.129.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.129.1) — Sanskrit

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