Skandapurana 6.3.135
Skandapurāṇa 6.3.135
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adhyāya 135
Chapter 135
6.3.135.1
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tasyaivānantaraṃ cānyatsiddheśvaramanuttamam .
tīrthaṃ sarvaguṇopetaṃ sarvalokeṣu pūjitam .. 135.1 ..
Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Directly after that is another unsurpassed [sacred ford], Siddheśvara,
a sacred ford endowed with all virtues, worshipped in all the worlds.
6.3.135.2
tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā hyumārudraṃ prapūjayet .
vājapeyasya yajñasya sa labhetphalamuttamam .. 135.2 ..
Whoever, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships Umā and Rudra,
obtains the excellent fruit of the Vājapeya sacrifice.
6.3.135.3
tena puṇyena mahatā mṛtaḥ svargamavāpnuyāt .
apsarogaṇasaṃvīto jayaśabdādimaṅgalaiḥ .. 135.3 ..
Dying with that great merit, he attains heaven,
surrounded by groups of apsarases with auspicious shouts of victory and the like.
6.3.135.4
sahasravatsarāṃstatra krīḍayitvā yathāsukham .
dhanadhānyasamopete kule mahati jāyate .. 135.4 ..
Sporting there comfortably for a thousand years,
he is born into an exalted family endowed with wealth and grain.
6.3.135.5
pūjyamāno naraśreṣṭha vedavedāṅgapāragaḥ .
vyādhiśokavinirmukto jīvecca śaradāṃ śatam .. 135.5 ..
Honored, O best of men, a master of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas,
freed from disease and sorrow, he will live for a hundred autumns.
6.3.135.5_2
.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe siddheśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma pañcatriṃśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..
Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-fifth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Siddheśvara', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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