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# Skandapurana 6.3.132

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.132

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.132.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.1)

adhyāya 132  
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchettu rājendra uttare narmadātaṭe .  
sarvapāpaharaṃ tīrthaṃ vārāhaṃ nāma nāmataḥ .. 132.1 ..

> Chapter 132  
> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Then one should go, O best of kings, to the northern bank of the Narmadā, / to the sacred ford that removes all sins, named Vārāha by name.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.2)

tatra devo jagaddhātā vārāhaṃ rūpamāsthitaḥ .  
sthito lokahitārthāya saṃsārārṇavatārakaḥ .. 132.2 ..

> There the god, the creator of the world, assuming the boar form, / remained for the welfare of the world, carrying \[souls\] across the ocean of worldly existence.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.3)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayeddharaṇīdharam .  
gandhamālyaviśeṣaiśca jayaśabdādimaṅgalaiḥ .. 132.3 ..

> Whoever bathes at that sacred ford and worships the Supporter of the Earth / with specific perfumes and garlands, and auspicious cries of victory and the like,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.4)

upavāsaparo bhūtvā dvādaśyāṃ nṛpasattama .  
vṛṣalāḥ pāpakarmāṇastathaivāndhapiśācinaḥ .. 132.4 ..

> intent upon fasting on the twelfth lunar day, O best of kings— / \[keeping away from\] Śūdras of sinful deeds, and likewise blind Piśācas;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.5)

ālāpādgātrasaṃparkānniḥśvāsātsahabhojanāt .  
pāpaṃ saṃkramate yasmāttasmāttān parivarjayet .. 132.5 ..

> since sin is transmitted through conversation, bodily contact, exhalation, and dining together, / one should therefore avoid them.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.6)

brāhmaṇān pūjayedbhaktyā yathāśaktyā yathāvidhi .  
rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ kāryaṃ kathāyāṃ tatra bhārata .. 132.6 ..

> One should worship brahmins with devotion according to one's ability and according to rule; / a vigil should be observed there at night during the recitation, O Bhārata.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.7)

prabhāte vimale snātvā tatra tīrthe jagadgurum .  
ye paśyanti jitakrodhāste muktāḥ sarvapātakaiḥ .. 132.7 ..

> Those who, having bathed at that sacred ford at clear dawn, / look upon the teacher of the universe with anger conquered, are freed from all sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.8)

yathā tu dṛṣṭvā bhujagāḥ suparṇaṃ naśyanti muktvā viṣamugratejaḥ .  
naśyanti pāpāni tathaiva śīghraṃ dṛṣṭvā mukhaṃ śūkararūpiṇastu .. 132.8 ..

> Just as serpents, on seeing Garuḍa, flee, abandoning their terrible burning venom, / even so sins quickly perish on seeing the face of him who has the form of a boar.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.9)

nabhogataṃ naśyati cāndhakāraṃ dṛṣṭvā raviṃ devavaraṃ tathaiva .  
naśyanti pāpāni sudustarāṇi dṛṣṭvā mukhaṃ pārtha dharādharasya .. 132.9 ..

> Just as darkness in the sky vanishes on seeing the sun, the foremost of gods, / even so insurmountable sins perish, O Pārtha, on seeing the face of the Supporter of the Earth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.10)

kiṃ tasya bahubhirmantrairbhaktiryasya janārdane .  
namo nārāyaṇāyeti mantraḥ sarvārthasādhakaḥ .. 132.10 ..

> What need is there for many mantras for one whose devotion is directed to Janārdana? / The mantra "Obeisance to Nārāyaṇa" accomplishes all aims.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.11)

eko'pi kṛṣṇasya kṛtaḥ praṇāmo daśāśvamedhāvabhṛthena tulyaḥ .  
daśāśvamedhī punareti janma kṛṣṇapraṇāmī na punarbhavāya .. 132.11 ..

> Even a single obeisance offered to Kṛṣṇa is equal to the concluding bath of ten horse-sacrifices. / The performer of ten horse-sacrifices takes birth again, but one who bows to Kṛṣṇa is not \[born\] for rebirth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.12)

dhyāyamānā mahātmāno rūpaṃ nārāyaṇaṃ hareḥ .  
ye tyajanti svakaṃ dehaṃ tatra tīrthe jitendriyāḥ .. 132.12 ..

> Those great-souled ones with subdued senses who, meditating upon Hari's form as Nārāyaṇa, / cast off their own bodies at that sacred ford,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.13)

te gacchantyamalaṃ sthānaṃ yatsurairapi durlabham .  
kṣarākṣaravinirmuktaṃ tadviṣṇoḥ paramaṃ padam .. 132.13 ..

> go to the spotless abode that is difficult even for the gods to attain: / Viṣṇu's highest step, free from both the perishable and the imperishable.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.132.13\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.132.13_1)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ādivārāhatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma dvātriṃśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-second chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of the Ādivārāha Sacred Ford", in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth \[section\], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious 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.6.3.132.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.132.1) — Sanskrit

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