[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) › 6.3.149 # Skandapurana 6.3.149 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.149 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.149.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.p1) adhyāya 149 > Chapter 149 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.1) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tasyaivānantaraṃ tīrthaṃ liṅgeśvaramiti śrutam . darśanāddevadevasya yatra pāpaṃ praṇaśyati .. 149.1 .. > Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately after that is the sacred ford known as Liṅgeśvara, / where sin is destroyed through the darśana of the God of gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.2) kṛtvā tu kadanaṃ ghoraṃ dānavānāṃ yudhiṣṭhira . vārāhaṃ rūpamāsthāya narmadāyāṃ vyavasthitaḥ .. 149.2 .. > Having wrought a terrible slaughter of the Dānavas, O Yudhiṣṭhira, / \[Viṣṇu\], assuming the form of the Boar, took up his abode on the Narmadā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.3) tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snānaṃ kṛtvā devaṃ namasyati . sa mucyate nṛpaśreṣṭha mahāpāpaiḥ purākṛtaiḥ .. 149.3 .. > One who takes a ritual ablution at that sacred ford and bows down to the god, / O best of kings, is freed from great sins committed in the past. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.4) dvādaśyāṃ kṛṣṇapakṣasya śukle ca samupoṣitaḥ . gandhamālyairjagannāthaṃ pūjayetpāṇḍunandana .. 149.4 .. > Having fasted completely on the twelfth day of the dark fortnight and of the bright \[fortnight\], / one should worship the Lord of the Universe with perfumes and garlands, O son of Pāṇḍu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.5) brāhmaṇāṃśca mahābhāga dānasaṃmānabhojanaiḥ . pūjayetparayā bhaktyā tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 149.5 .. > And one should worship brahmins, O fortunate one, with gifts, honor, and meals, / with supreme devotion; hear the meritorious fruit thereof: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.6) satrayājiphalaṃ janturlabhate dvādaśābdakaiḥ . brāhmaṇānbhojayaṃstatra tadeva labhate phalam .. 149.6 .. > A living being obtains the fruit of performing a sacrificial session for twelve years; / feeding brahmins there, he obtains that very fruit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.7) tarpayitvā pitṝn devān snātvā tadgatamānasaḥ . japeddvādaśanāmāni devasya purataḥ sthitaḥ .. 149.7 .. > Having offered libations to the ancestors and gods, having bathed, with mind fixed on Him, / standing before the god, one should chant the twelve names. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.8) māsi māsi nirāhāro dvādaśyāṃ kurunandana . keśavaṃ pūjayennityaṃ māsi mārgaśire budhaḥ .. 149.8 .. > Fasting month after month on the twelfth day, O delight of the Kurus, / the wise one should always worship Keśava in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.9) pauṣe nārāyaṇaṃ devaṃ māghamāse tu mādhavam . govindaṃ phālgune māsi viṣṇuṃ caitre samarcayet .. 149.9 .. > the god Nārāyaṇa in Pauṣa, Mādhava in the month of Māgha, / Govinda in the month of Phālguna, and Viṣṇu in Caitra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.10) vaiśākhe madhuhantāraṃ jyeṣṭhe devaṃ trivikramam . vāmanaṃ tu tathāṣāḍhe śrāvaṇe śrīdharaṃ smaret .. 149.10 .. > In Vaiśākha one should remember the Slayer of Madhu, in Jyeṣṭha the god Trivikrama, / Vāmana in Āṣāḍha, and Śrīdhara in Śrāvaṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.11) hṛṣīkeśaṃ bhādrapade padmanābhaṃ tathāśvine . dāmodaraṃ kārttike tu kīrtayannāvasīdati .. 149.11 .. > Chanting Hṛṣīkeśa in Bhādrapada, Padmanābha in Āśvina, / and Dāmodara in Kārttika, one does not perish. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.12) vācikaṃ mānasaṃ pāpaṃ karmajaṃ yatpurā kṛtam . tannaśyati na sandeho māsanāmānukīrtanāt .. 149.12 .. > Whatever sin was committed in the past through speech, mind, or action / is destroyed, beyond doubt, through the recitation of the names of the months. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.13) svayaṃ vinuddhaḥ satatamunmiṣannimiṣaṃstathā . śīghraṃ prapaśya bhuñjāno mantrahīnaṃ samudgiret .. 149.13 .. > Continually driven on oneself, opening and closing the eyes, / looking about swiftly, eating, \[even if\] uttering \[names\] devoid of mantras, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.14) paramāpadgatasyāpi jantoreṣā pratikriyā . yanmāsādhipaterviṣṇormāsanāmānukīrtanam .. 149.14 .. > this is the remedy even for a living being fallen into the direst calamity: / reciting the monthly name of Viṣṇu, the presiding deity of the months. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.15) tā niśāste ca divasāste māsāste ca vatsarāḥ . narāṇāṃ saphalā yeṣu cintito bhagavānhariḥ .. 149.15 .. > Those nights, those days, those months, and those years / are fruitful for men in which Lord Hari has been meditated upon. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.16) paramāpadgatasyāpi yasya devo janārdanaḥ . nāvasarpati hṛtpadmātsa yogī nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 149.16 .. > Even when he has fallen into the direst calamity, he from whose heart-lotus / the god Janārdana does not slip away is a yogin; of this there is no doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.17) te bhāgyahīnā manujāḥ suśocyāste bhūmibhārāya kṛtāvatārāḥ . acetanāste paśubhiḥ samānā ye bhaktihīnā bhagavatyanante .. 149.17 .. > Devoid of good fortune are those men, greatly to be pitied; they have descended as an incarnation only to be a burden to the earth; / they are senseless, equal to beasts—those who are devoid of devotion to the infinite Lord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.18) te pūrṇakāryāḥ puruṣāḥ pṛthivyāṃ te svāṅgapātādbhuvanaṃ punanti . vicakṣaṇā viśvavibhūṣaṇāste ye bhaktiyuktā bhagavatyanante .. 149.18 .. > Those men have accomplished their purpose on earth; they purify the world by the fall of their own limbs \[in prostration\]; / they are discerning, an ornament to the universe—those who are filled with devotion to the infinite Lord. 149.18 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.19) sa eva sukṛtī tena labdhaṃ janmataroḥ phalam . citte vacasi kāye ca yasya devo janārdanaḥ .. 149.19 .. > He alone is virtuous; by him the fruit of the tree of birth has been attained, / in whose heart, speech, and body the god Janārdana resides. 149.19 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.20) etattīrthavaraṃ puṇyaṃ liṅgo yatra janārdanaḥ . vañcayitvā ripūnsaṃkhye krodho bhūtvā sanātanaḥ .. 149.20 .. > This is an excellent, holy sacred ford, where the eternal Janārdana became a liṅga, / having deceived his enemies in battle, \[assumed the form of\] the Boar. 149.20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.21) upaplave candramaso raveśca yo hyaṣṭakānāmayanadvaye ca . pānīyamapyatra tilairvimiśraṃ dadyātpitṛbhyaḥ prayato manuṣyaḥ .. 149.21 .. > During an eclipse of the moon and sun, on the aṣṭakās, and during both solstices, / a restrained man should indeed offer even water mixed with sesame seeds to the ancestors here. 149.21 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.22) ghoṇonmīlitamerurandhranivaho duḥkhābdhimajjatplavaḥ prādurbhūtarasātalodarabṛhatpaṅkārdhamagnakṣuraḥ . phūtkārotkaranunnavātavidaladdigdantinādaśrutinyastastabdhavapuḥ śrutirbhavatu vaḥ kroḍo hariḥ śāntaye .. 149.22 .. > May the Boar Hari bring you peace!—by whose snout the network of hollows of Mount Meru was unclosed; who was a raft for those sinking into the ocean of sorrow; / whose hooves were half-submerged in the deep mire that arose from the belly of Rasātala; whose ears were frozen, rigid in listening to the roar of the elephants of the quarters shattered by the wind blast driven by his exhalations. 149.22 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.149.22\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149.22_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe liṅgavārāhatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonapañcāśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the one hundred and forty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford of the Liṅga-Boar,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, 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.6.3.149.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.149.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.149) · Pramāṇa