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Skandapurana 6.3.137

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.137

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6.3.137.p1

adhyāya 137

Chapter 137

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6.3.137.1

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
dharmaputra tato gacchetkarkaṭeśvaramuttamam .
uttare narmadākūle sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 137.1 ..

Mārkaṇḍeya said:
O Dharmaputra, one should then go to the excellent Karkaṭeśvara / on the northern bank of the Narmadā, which destroys all sins. (1)

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6.3.137.2

tatra snātvā vidhānena yastu pūjayate śivam .
anivartikā gatistasya rudralokādasaṃśayam .. 137.2 ..

Whoever bathes there according to the injunctions and worships Śiva, / his state of existence is non-returning from Rudra's world, without a doubt. (2)

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6.3.137.3

tasya tīrthasya māhātmyaṃ purāṇe yacchrutaṃ mayā .
na tadvarṇayituṃ śakyaṃ saṃkṣepeṇa vadāmyataḥ .. 137.3 ..

What I have heard in the Purāṇa regarding the māhātmya of that sacred ford / cannot be fully described; therefore I tell it in brief. (3)

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6.3.137.4

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ kuryātkiṃcitkarma śubhāśubham .
harṣānmadānmahārāja tatsarvaṃ jāyate'kṣayam .. 137.4 ..

Whatever deed, whether auspicious or inauspicious, one performs at that sacred ford / out of joy or intoxication, O great king, all of it becomes imperishable. (4)

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6.3.137.5

tatra tīrthe tapastaptvā vālakhilyā marīcayaḥ .
ramante'dyāpi lokeṣu svecchayā kurunandana .. 137.5 ..

Having performed austerity at that sacred ford, the Vālakhilyas and the Marīcis / even today sport in the worlds at will, O delight of the Kurus! (5)

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6.3.137.6

tatrasthāstanna jānanti narājñānabahiṣkṛtāḥ .
śarīrasthamivātmānamakṣayaṃ jyotiravyayam .. 137.6 ..

Those who dwell there do not know it, people excluded by ignorance, / like the imperishable, undecaying light, the Self situated within the body. (6)

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6.3.137.7

tatra tīrthe nṛpaśreṣṭha devī nārāyaṇī purā .
adyāpi tapate ghoraṃ tapo yāvatkilārbudam .. 137.7 ..

At that sacred ford, O best of kings, the goddess Nārāyaṇī of old, / even today performs fierce austerity, indeed for an arbudam of years. (7)

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6.3.137.8

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ .
tasya te dvādaśābdāni tṛptiṃ yānti pitāmahāḥ .. 137.8 ..

Whoever, having bathed at that sacred ford, offers libations to the ancestors and gods, / his forefathers attain satisfaction for twelve years. (8)

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6.3.137.8_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe karkaṭeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptatriṃśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-seventh chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Karkaṭeśvara Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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