[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) › 6.3.12 # Skandapurana 6.3.12 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.12.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.p1) adhyāya 12 > Chapter 12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.1) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - etacchrutvā vaco rājansaṃhṛṣṭā ṛṣayo'bhavan . narmadāṃ stotumārabdhāḥ kṛtāñjalipuṭā dvijāḥ .. 12.1 .. > Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Having heard these words, O king, the seers were delighted. / With folded hands, the twice-born began to praise the Narmadā: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.2) namo'stu te puṇyajale namo makaragāmini . namaste pāpamocinyai namo devi varānane .. 12.2 .. > 'Salutations to you of sacred water; salutations to you who ride on a makara! / Salutations to you, O deliverer from sin; salutations, O goddess of beautiful face! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.3) namo'stu te puṇyajalāśraye śubhe viśuddhasattvaṃ surasiddhasevite . namo'stu te tīrthagaṇairniṣevite namo'stu rudrāṅgasamudbhave vare .. 12.3 .. > Salutations to you, O auspicious abode of sacred waters, pure of essence, served by gods and siddhas! / Salutations to you, frequented by hosts of sacred fords; salutations to you, O excellent one born from Rudra's body! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.4) namo'stu te devi samudragāmini namo'stu te devi varaprade śive . namo'stu lokadvayasaukhyadāyini hyanekabhūtaughasamāśrite'naghe .. 12.4 .. > Salutations to you, O goddess who flow to the ocean; salutations to you, O auspicious goddess who grant boons! / Salutations to you who grant happiness in both worlds, who are resorted to by countless multitudes of beings, O sinless one! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.5) saridvare pāpahare vicitrite gandharvayakṣoragasevitāṅge . sanātani prāṇigaṇānukampini mokṣaprade devi vidhehi śaṃ naḥ .. 12.5 .. > O best of rivers, remover of sins, variegated one whose body is served by Gandharvas, Yakṣas, and Uragas! / O eternal one, compassionate toward all living beings, bestower of liberation! O goddess, grant us welfare! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.6) mahāgajairghamahiṣairvarāhaiḥ saṃsevite devi mahormimāle . natāḥ sma sarve varade sukhaprade vimocayāsmānpaśupāśabandhāt .. 12.6 .. > O goddess served by great elephants, dark buffaloes, and boars, adorned with garlands of great waves! / We all bow to you, O giver of boons, O giver of happiness; deliver us from the bonds of paśus! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.7) pāpairanekairaśubhairvibaddhā bhramanti tāvannarakeṣu martyāḥ . mahānilodbhūtataraṅgabhūtaṃ yāvattavāmbho hi na saṃspṛśanti .. 12.7 .. > Bound by numerous inauspicious sins, mortals wander in hells / only so long as they do not touch your waters, which are stirred into waves by the mighty wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.8) anekaduḥkhaughabhayārditānāṃ pāpairanekairabhiveṣṭitānām . gatistvamambhojasamānavakre dvandvairanekairapi saṃvṛtānām .. 12.8 .. > To those tormented by the perils of countless afflictions, enveloped in numerous sins, / and surrounded by various dualities, you are the refuge, O one whose face resembles a lotus! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.9) nadyaśca pūtā vimalā bhavanti tvāṃ devi samprāpya na saṃśayo'tra . duḥkhāturāṇāmabhayaṃ dadāsi śiṣṭairanekairabhipūjitāsi .. 12.9 .. > Even rivers become purified and spotless upon reaching you, O goddess; there is no doubt about this. / You give fearlessness to those distressed by suffering; you are worshiped by many virtuous ones. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.10) spṛṣṭaṃ karaiścandramaso raveśca tadaiva dadyātparamaṃ padaṃ tu . yatropalāḥ puṇyajalāplutāste śivatvamāyānti kimatra citram .. 12.10 .. > Touched by the rays of the moon and the sun, she immediately grants the highest realm; / and where the stones immersed in your sacred water attain Śiva-hood, what is there to wonder at? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.11) bhramanti tāvannarakeṣu martyā duḥkhāturāḥ pāpaparītadehāḥ . mahānilodbhūtataraṅgabhaṅgaṃ yāvattavāmbho na hi saṃśrayanti .. 12.11 .. > Mortals wander in hells, tormented by suffering and their bodies covered in sins, / only so long as they do not resort to your water with breaking waves raised by the mighty wind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.12) mlecchāḥ pulindāstvatha yātudhānāḥ pibanti ye'mbhastava devi puṇyam . muktā bhavantīha bhayāttu ghorānniḥsaṃśayaṃ te'pi kimatra citram .. 12.12 .. > Even Mlecchas, Pulindas, and Yātudhānas who drink your sacred water, O goddess, / are undoubtedly freed here from terrible fear—what is there to wonder at?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.13) sarāṃsi nadyaḥ kṣayamabhyupetā ghore yuge'smin hi kalau pradūṣite . tvaṃ bhrājase devi jalaughapūrṇā divīva nakṣatrapathe ca gaṅgā .. 12.13 .. > Lakes and rivers have met with destruction in this dreadful, corrupted Kali age, / but you shine, O goddess, filled with floods of water, like the Gaṅgā in the sky on the path of the constellations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.14) tava prasādādvarade variṣṭhe kālaṃ yathemaṃ paripālayitvā . yāmo'tha rudraṃ tava suprasādādvayaṃ tathā tvaṃ kuru vai prasādam .. 12.14 .. > O bestower of boons, O most excellent one! By your grace, having thus endured this time, / may we then go to Rudra by your good grace; please grant that grace to us. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.15) gatistvamambeva piteva putrāṃstvaṃ pāhi no yāvadimaṃ yugāntam . kālaṃ tvanāvṛṣṭihataṃ sughoraṃ yāvattarāmastava suprasādāt .. 12.15 .. > You are our refuge, like a mother and like a father to children; protect us until this end of the age, / so that we may cross over this most terrible time stricken by drought, by your good grace. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.16) paṭhanti ye stotramidaṃ dvijendrāḥ śṛṇvanti ye cāpi narāḥ praśāntāḥ . te yānti rudraṃ vṛṣasaṃyutena yānena divyāmbarabhūṣitāśca .. 12.16 .. > The best among the twice-born who recite this hymn of praise, and the tranquil men who listen to it, / adorned with divine garments, go to Rudra in a vehicle accompanied by a bull. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.17) ye stotrametatsatataṃ paṭhanti snātvā tu toye khalu narmadāyāḥ . ante hi teṣāṃ sariduttameyaṃ gatiṃ viśuddhāmacirāddadāti .. 12.17 .. > Those who constantly recite this hymn after having bathed in the water of the Narmadā, / to them at the end this best of rivers soon gives a purified state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.18) prātaḥ samutthāya tathā śayāno yaḥ kīrtayetānudinaṃ stavaṃ ca . sa muktapāpaḥ suviśuddhadehaḥ samāśrayaṃ yāti maheśvarasya .. 12.18 .. > Having risen in the morning, and likewise when lying down, whoever praises \[her\] day after day with this hymn, / freed from sin, his body completely purified, goes to the shelter of Maheśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.12.18\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12.18_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe śrīnarmadāmāhātmye narmadāstotrakathanaṃ nāma dvādaśo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the twelfth chapter, entitled 'Recital of the Narmadā Hymn,' in the Revered Narmadā-māhātmya, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section, in the venerable 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.6.3.12.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.12.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.12) · Pramāṇa