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# Skandapurana 6.3.153

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.153

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.153.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.p1)

adhyāya 153

> Chapter 153  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.1)

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tasyaivānantaraṃ cānyadravitīrthamanuttamam .  
yasya saṃdarśanādeva mucyante pātakairnarāḥ .. 153.1 ..

> Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately after that is another, the unsurpassed Ravitīrtha, / simply by the sight of which human beings are freed from sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.2)

ravitīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā naraḥ paśyati bhāskaram .  
tasya yatphalamuddiṣṭaṃ svayaṃ devena tacchṛṇu .. 153.2 ..

> The man who, having bathed at Ravitīrtha, beholds the Sun— / hear that fruit which was indicated by the god himself:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.3)

nāndho na mūko badhiraḥ kule bhavati kaścana .  
kurūpaḥ kunakhī vāpi tasya janmāni ṣoḍaśa .. 153.3 ..

> No one in his lineage is blind, mute, deaf, / deformed, or having diseased nails for sixteen births.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.4)

dadrucitrakakuṣṭhāni maṇḍalāni vicarcikā .  
naśyanti devabhaktasya ṣaṇmāsānnātra saṃśayaḥ .. 153.4 ..

> Ringworm, variegated leprosy, blotches, and scabies / perish for the devotee of the god after six months; there is no doubt about this.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.5)

caritaṃ tasya devasya purāṇe yacchrutaṃ mayā .  
na tatkathayituṃ śakyaṃ saṃkṣepeṇa nṛpottama .. 153.5 ..

> The deed of that god which I heard in the Purāṇa / cannot be told in brief, O best of kings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.6)

tatra tīrthe tu yaddānaṃ ravimuddiśya dīyate .  
vidhinā pātraviprāya tasyānto nāsti karhicit .. 153.6 ..

> Whatever gift is given at that sacred ford intended for the Sun, / according to rule, to a worthy brahmin, there is never any end to it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.7)

ayane viṣuve caiva candrasūryagrahe tathā .  
ravitīrthe pradattānāṃ dānānāṃ phalamuttamam .. 153.7 ..

> At a solstice, at an equinox, and during an eclipse of the moon or the sun, / the fruit of gifts given at Ravitīrtha is supreme.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.8)

saṃkrāntau yāni dānāni havyakavyāni bhārata .  
apāmiva samudrasya teṣāmanto na labhyate .. 153.8 ..

> Whatever gifts, oblations to the gods, and offerings to the ancestors \[are made\] at a transit, O Bhārata, / their end cannot be found, just like that of the waters of the ocean.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.9)

yena yena yadā dattaṃ yena yena yadā hutam .  
tasya tasya tadā kāle savitā pratidāyakaḥ .. 153.9 ..

> By whomsoever whatever is given, by whomsoever whatever is offered in sacrifice, / to each person at that time Savitṛ gives in return.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.10)

sapta janmāni tānyeva dadātyarkaḥ punaḥ punaḥ .  
śatamindukṣaye dānaṃ sahasraṃ tu dinakṣaye .. 153.10 ..

> For seven births the Sun repeatedly gives those very things. / A gift on the new-moon day \[yields\] a hundredfold, but a thousandfold on a solar day's end;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.11)

saṃkrāntau śatasāhasraṃ vyatīpāte tvanantakam .. 153.11 ..

> a hundred thousandfold on a transit, but infinite on a vyatīpāta.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.12)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
ravitīrthaṃ kathaṃ tāta puṇyātpuṇyataraṃ smṛtam .  
vistareṇa mamākhyāhi śravaṇau mama lampaṭau .. 153.12 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said: / How is Ravitīrtha remembered as holier than the holy, O dear father? / Tell me in full; my ears are eager \[to hear\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.13)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
śṛṇuṣvāvahito bhūtvā hyādityeśvaramuttamam .  
uttare narmadākūle sarvavyādhivināśanam .. 153.13 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Listen attentively about the supreme Ādityeśvara / on the northern bank of the Narmadā, which destroys all diseases.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.14)

purā kṛtayugasyādau jābālirbrāhmaṇo'bhavat .  
vasiṣṭhānvayasambhūto vedaśāstrārthapāragaḥ .. 153.14 ..

> Long ago, at the beginning of the Kṛta age, there was a brahmin named Jābāli, / born in the lineage of Vasiṣṭha, who had mastered the meaning of the Vedas and treatises.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.15)

pativratā sādhuśīlā tasya bhāryā manasvinī .  
ṛtukāle tu sā gatvā bhartāramidamabravīt .. 153.15 ..

> His wife was devoted to her husband, virtuous in conduct, and high-minded. / Approaching her husband at the fertile time, she spoke this:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.16)

vartate ṛtukālo me bhartāraṃ tvāmupasthitā .  
bhaja māṃ prītisaṃyuktaḥ putrakāmāṃ tu kāminīm .. 153.16 ..

> "My fertile time has arrived, and I have approached you, my husband; / unite with me with love, for I am a passionate woman desiring a son."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.17)

evamukto dvijaḥ prāha priye'dyāhaṃ vratānvitaḥ .  
gacchedānīṃ varārohe dāsya ṛtvantare punaḥ .. 153.17 ..

> Addressed thus, the twice-born said: "My dear, today I am engaged in a religious observance. / Go now, O fair-hipped woman; I will give \[it\] at another fertile period."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.18)

punardvitīye samprāpte ṛtukāle'pyupasthitā .  
punaḥ sā chanditā tena vratastho'dyeti bhārata .. 153.18 ..

> When a second fertile time arrived, she approached him again. / Again she was deferred by him, \[saying,\] "I am observing a vow today," O Bhārata.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.19)

itthaṃ vā bahuśastena chanditā ca punaḥ punaḥ .  
nirāśā cābhavattatra bhartāraṃ prati bhāminī .. 153.19 ..

> When thus repeatedly deferred many times by him, / the proud woman became completely hopeless regarding her husband.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.20)

duḥkhena mahatāviṣṭā vidhāyānaśanaṃ mṛtā .  
tena bhrūṇahatenaiva pāpena sahasā dvijaḥ .. 153.20 ..

> Overwhelmed by great sorrow, she undertook fasting and died. / By that very sin of foeticide, suddenly the twice-born...  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.21)

śīrṇaghrāṇāṅghrirabhavattapaḥ sarvaṃ nanāśa ca .  
dṛṣṭvātmānaṃ sa kuṣṭhena vyāptaṃ brāhmaṇasattamaḥ .. 153.21 ..

> His nose and feet decayed, and all his austerity was destroyed. / Seeing himself afflicted with leprosy, that best of brahmins,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.22)

viṣādaṃ paramaṃ gatvā narmadātaṭamāśritaḥ .  
apṛcchadbhāskaraṃ tīrthaṃ dvijebhyo dvijasattamaḥ .. 153.22 ..

> fell into extreme despair and took refuge on the bank of the Narmadā. / That best of brahmins asked other brahmins about the Bhāskara sacred ford:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.23)

ārogyaṃ bhāskarādicchediti saṃcintya cetasi .  
kutastadbhāskaraṃ tīrthaṃ bho dvijāḥ kathyatāṃ mama .. 153.23 ..

> Reflecting in his mind, "One should seek health from the Sun," / \[he asked,\] "Where is that Bhāskara sacred ford, O brahmins? Tell me!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.24)

tapastapyāmyahaṃ gatvā tasmiṃstīrthe subhāvitaḥ .. 153.24 ..

> I will go and perform austerity at that sacred ford, well-concentrated."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.25)

dvijā ūcuḥ .  
revāyā uttare kūle ādityeśvaranāmataḥ .  
vidyate bhāskaraṃ tīrthaṃ sarvavyādhivināśanam .. 153.25 ..

> The brahmins said: / "On the northern bank of the Revā, known by the name Ādityeśvara, / there is the Bhāskara sacred ford, which destroys all diseases.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.26)

tatra yāhyavicāreṇa gantuṃ cecchakyate tvayā .  
evamukto dvijairvipro gantuṃ tatra pracakrame .. 153.26 ..

> Go there without hesitation, if you are able to go." / Thus addressed by the brahmins, the brahmin set out to go there.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.27)

vyādhinā paribhūtastu ghoreṇa prāṇahāriṇā .  
yadā gantuṃ na śaknoti tadā tena vicintitam .. 153.27 ..

> However, overcome by the terrible disease that threatened his life, / when he was unable to walk, he then reflected:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.28)

sāmarthyaṃ brāhmaṇānāṃ hi vidyate bhuvanatraye .  
liṅgapātaḥ kṛto viprairdevadevasya śūlinaḥ .. 153.28 ..

> "Indeed, the power of brahmins exists throughout the three worlds! / The fall of the liṅga of the god of gods, the wielder of the trident, was brought about by brahmins;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.29)

samudraḥ śoṣito viprairvindhyaścāpi nivāritaḥ .  
ahamapyatra saṃsthastu hyānayiṣyāmi bhāskaram .. 153.29 ..

> the ocean was dried up by brahmins, and Vindhya was halted. / Remaining right here, I too will bring the Sun,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.30)

tapobalena mahatā hyādityeśvarasaṃjñitam .  
iti niścitya manasā hyugre tapasi saṃsthitaḥ .. 153.30 ..

> named Ādityeśvara, by the great power of my austerity." / Having thus resolved in his mind, he engaged in severe austerity.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.31)

vāyubhakṣo nirāhāro grīṣme pañcāgnimadhyagaḥ .  
śiśire toyamadhyastho varṣāsvaprāvṛtākṛtiḥ .. 153.31 ..

> Subsisting on wind, taking no food, standing amidst five fires in summer, / standing in water during the cold season, and unprotected against rain during the monsoon,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.32)

sāgre varṣaśate pūrṇe ravistuṣṭo'bravīdidam .. 153.32 ..

> when a full century of years had elapsed, the Sun, being pleased, said this:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.33)

sūrya uvāca -  
varaṃ varaya bhadraṃ te kiṃ te manasi vāñchitam .  
adeyamapi dāsyāmi brūhi māṃ tvaṃ ciraṃ kṛthāḥ .. 153.33 ..

> Sūrya said: / "Choose a boon, blessings to you! What is desired in your mind? / I will grant even what should not be given; speak to me, do not delay.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.34)

kimasādhyaṃ hi te vipra idānīṃ tapasi sthitaḥ .. 153.34 ..

> Indeed, what is impossible for you, O brahmin, now established in austerity?"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.35)

jābāliruvāca -  
yadi tuṣṭo'si deveśa yadi deyo varo mama .  
mama pratijñā deveśa hyādityeśvaradarśane .. 153.35 ..

> Jābāli said: / "If you are pleased, O Lord of gods, if a boon is to be granted to me: / my vow was made, O Lord of gods, to obtain the darśana of Ādityeśvara,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.36)

kṛtā tāṃ pārituṃ deva na śakto vyādhinā vṛtaḥ .  
śuklatīrthe'tra tiṣṭha tvamādityeśvaramūrtidhṛk .. 153.36 ..

> yet, afflicted by disease, O God, I was unable to fulfill it. / Remain here at Śuklatīrtha, assuming the form of Ādityeśvara."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.37)

evamukte tu deveśo bahurūpo divākaraḥ .  
uttare narmadākūle kṣaṇādeva vyadṛśyata .. 153.37 ..

> When this was said, the Lord of gods, the multiform Sun, / appeared in an instant upon the northern bank of the Narmadā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.38)

tadāprabhṛti bhūpāla taddhi tīrthaṃ pracakṣate .  
sarvapāpaharaṃ proktaṃ sarvaduḥkhavināśanam .. 153.38 ..

> From that time forward, O king, they proclaim that very sacred ford; / it is declared to remove all sins and destroy all sorrows.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.39)

yastu saṃvatsaraṃ pūrṇaṃ nityamādityavāsare .  
snātvā pradakṣiṇāḥ sapta dattvā paśyati bhāskaram .. 153.39 ..

> Whoever, for one full year, constantly on Sundays, / having bathed and performed seven circumambulations, beholds the Sun—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.40)

yatphalaṃ labhate tena tacchṛṇuṣva mayoditam .  
prasuptaṃ maṇḍalānīha dadrukuṣṭhavicarcikāḥ .. 153.40 ..

> listen to that fruit obtained by him, as declared by me: / dormant skin eruptions, ringworm, leprosy, and eczema  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.41)

naśyanti satvaraṃ rājaṃstūlarāśirivānale .  
dhanaputrakalatrāṇāṃ pūrayedvatsaratrayāt .. 153.41 ..

> quickly perish, O king, like a heap of cotton in fire. / Within three years, he will fulfill his desires for wealth, sons, and wives.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.42)

yastu śrāddhapradastatra pitḥnuddiśya saṃkrame .  
tṛpyanti pitarastasya pitṛdevo hi bhāskaraḥ .. 153.42 ..

> And whoever offers a śrāddha there dedicated to the ancestors during a transit of the sun, / his ancestors are satisfied, for the Sun is indeed the deity of the ancestors.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.43)

iti te kathitaṃ sarvamādityeśvaramuttamam .  
sarvapāpaharaṃ divyaṃ sarvarogavināśanam .. 153.43 ..

> Thus all of this supreme \[māhātmya\] of Ādityeśvara has been told to you, / which removes all sins, is divine, and destroys all diseases.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.153.43\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.153.43_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ādityeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma tripañcāśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred fifty-third chapter, entitled "Description of the Māhātmya of the Ādityeśvara Sacred Ford," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compilation of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.153.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.153.1) — Sanskrit

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