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# Skandapurana 6.3.156

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.156

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.156.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.p1)

adhyāya 156

> Chapter 156  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
nāsti lokeṣu tattīrthaṃ pṛthivyāṃ yannareśvara .  
śuklatīrthena sadṛśamupamānena gīyate .. 156.1 ..

> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / "There is no sacred ford in the worlds upon earth, O ruler of men, / that is sung of as being comparable to Śuklatīrtha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.2)

śuklatīrthaṃ mahātīrthaṃ narmadāyāṃ vyavasthitam .  
prāgudakpravaṇe deśe munisaṅghaniṣevitam .. 156.2 ..

> Śuklatīrtha is a great sacred ford situated on the Narmadā, / in a place sloping towards the northeast, frequented by hosts of sages.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.3)

vaiśākhe ca tathā māsi kṛṣṇapakṣe caturdaśī .  
kailāsādumayā sārddhaṃ svayamāyāti śaṅkaraḥ .. 156.3 ..

> Moreover, on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Vaiśākha, / Śaṃkara himself comes from Kailāsa along with Umā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.4)

madhyāhnasamaye snātvā paśyatyātmānamātmanā .  
brahmaviṣṇvindrasahitaḥ śuklatīrthe samāhitaḥ .. 156.4 ..

> Having bathed at midday, composed in mind, together with Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Indra, / he beholds himself by himself at Śuklatīrtha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.5)

kārttikyāṃ tu viśeṣeṇa vaiśākhyāṃ ca narottama .  
brahmaviṣṇumahādevān snātvā paśyati taddine .. 156.5 ..

> Especially on the full moon of Kārttika and that of Vaiśākha, O best of men, / having bathed, one beholds Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Mahādeva on that day.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.6)

devarājaḥ suraiḥ sārddhaṃ vāyumārgavyavasthitaḥ .  
kṛṣṇapakṣe caturdaśyāṃ snātvā paśyati śaṅkaram .. 156.6 ..

> The king of the gods, together with the deities, positioned in the aerial path, / having bathed on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight, beholds Śaṃkara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.7)

gandharvāpsaraso yakṣāḥ siddhavidyādharoragāḥ .  
taddine te'pi deveśaṃ dṛṣṭvā muñcanti kilbiṣam .. 156.7 ..

> Gandharvas, apsarases, yakṣas, siddhas, vidyādharas, and serpents— / they too, on that day, beholding the Lord of gods, cast off sin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.8)

ardhayojanavistāraṃ tadarddhenaiva cāyatam .  
śuklatīrthaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam .. 156.8 ..

> Śuklatīrtha is half a yojana in extent and half of that in breadth, / exceedingly sacred, destroying great sins."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.9)

yatra sthitaiḥ pradṛśyante vṛkṣāgrāṇi narottamaiḥ .  
tatra sthitā mahāpāpairmucyante pūrvasaṃcitaiḥ .. 156.9 ..

> Where the tree-tops are seen by the best of men standing \[there\], / standing there they are freed from great sins accumulated in the past.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.10)

pāpopapātakairyukto naraḥ snātvā pramucyate .  
upārjitā vinaśyeta bhrūṇahatyāpi dustyajā .. 156.10 ..

> A man afflicted with sins and minor offenses is freed upon bathing; / even the acquired killing of an embryo, so hard to get rid of, is destroyed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.11)

yasmāttatraiva deveśa umayā saha tiṣṭhati .  
vaiśākhyāṃ ca viśeṣeṇa kailāsādeti śaṅkaraḥ .. 156.11 ..

> Because right there the lord of gods abides together with Umā, / and especially on the full moon of Vaiśākha, Śaṃkara arrives from Kailāsa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.12)

tena tīrthaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .  
kathitaṃ brahmaṇā pūrvaṃ mayā tava tathā nṛpa .. 156.12 ..

> Therefore the sacred ford is supremely holy and destroys all sins; / it was told by Brahmā in ancient times, and likewise by me to you, O king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.13)

rajakena yathā dhautaṃ vastraṃ bhavati nirmalam .  
tathā tatra vapuḥsnānaṃ puruṣasya bhavecchuci .. 156.13 ..

> Just as a garment washed by a washerman becomes spotless, / so does a man's body become pure by bathing there.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.14)

pūrve vayasi pāpāni kṛtvā puṣṭāni mānavaḥ .  
ahorātroṣito bhūtvā śuklatīrthe vyapohati .. 156.14 ..

> A mortal who has committed heavy sins in his early life / removes them by fasting for a day and a night at Śuklatīrtha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.15)

śuklatīrthe mahārāja rākāṃ revājalāñjalim .  
kalpakoṭisahasrāṇi dattvā syuḥ pitaraḥ śivāḥ .. 156.15 ..

> Offering a palmful of Revā's water at the full moon at Śuklatīrtha, O great king, / the ancestors will be blessed for thousands of crores of kalpas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.16)

na mātā na pitā bandhuḥ patanaṃ narakārṇave .  
uddharanti yathā puṇyaṃ śuklatīrthe nareśvara .. 156.16 ..

> Neither mother, nor father, nor kin rescues one falling into the ocean of hell, / as does the merit \[earned\] at Śuklatīrtha, O lord of men.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.17)

tapasā brahmacaryeṇa na tāṃ gacchanti sadgatim .  
śuklatīrthe mṛto janturdehatyāgena yāṃ labhet .. 156.17 ..

> They do not reach by austerity or celibacy that noble destination / which a creature dying at Śuklatīrtha attains by casting off the body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.18)

kārttikasya tu māsasya kṛṣṇapakṣe caturdaśīm .  
ghṛtena snāpayeddevamupoṣya prayato naraḥ .. 156.18 ..

> On the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of the month of Kārttika, / having fasted, a restrained man should bathe the god with clarified butter.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.19)

snātvā prabhāte revāyāṃ dadyātsaghṛtakambalam .  
sahiraṇyaṃ yathāśakti devamuddiśya śaṅkaraṃ .. 156.19 ..

> Having bathed in the morning in the Revā, he should offer a blanket anointed with clarified butter, / along with gold, according to his means, dedicated to the god Śaṃkara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.20)

devasya pūraṇaṃ kuryādghṛtena ghṛtakambalam .  
sa gacchati mahātejāḥ śivalokaṃ mṛto naraḥ .. 156.20 ..

> He should cover the god with clarified butter, \[offering\] a blanket of ghee; / dying, that man of great splendor goes to the world of Śiva.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.21)

ekaviṃśakulopeto yāvadābhūtasamplavam .  
śuklatīrthe naraḥ snātvā hyumāṃ rudraṃ ca yo'rcayet .. 156.21 ..

> Endowed with twenty-one generations until the universal dissolution of elements, / the man who, having bathed at Śuklatīrtha, indeed worships Umā and Rudra  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.22)

gandhapuṣpādidhūpaiśca so'śvamedhaphalaṃ labhet .  
māsopavāsaṃ yaḥ kuryāttatra tīrthe nareśvara .. 156.22 ..

> with perfumes, flowers, and incenses, obtains the fruit of a horse-sacrifice. / O lord of men, he who observes a month-long fast at that sacred ford  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.23)

mucyate sa mahatpāpaiḥ saptajanmasusaṃcitaiḥ .  
uṣṭrīkṣīramavikṣīraṃ navaśrāddhe ca bhojanam .. 156.23 ..

> is freed from great sins well-accumulated over seven births: / \[drinking\] camel's milk, sheep's milk, and eating at an initial funeral feast,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.24)

vṛṣalīgamanaṃ caiva tathābhakṣyasya bhakṣaṇam .  
avikraye'nṛte pāpaṃ māhiṣe'yājyayājake .. 156.24 ..

> approaching a low-caste woman, and likewise eating forbidden food, / the sin in selling what should not be sold, lying, \[selling\] buffaloes, officiating for the unworthy,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.25)

vārddhuṣye paṅktigarade devabrāhmaṇadūṣake .  
evamādīni pāpāni tathānyānyapi bhārata .. 156.25 ..

> usury, administering poison in a line of diners, reviling gods and brahmins — / these and other sins as well, O Bhārata,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.26)

cāndrāyaṇena naśyanti śuklatīrthe na saṃśayaḥ .  
śuklatīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ .. 156.26 ..

> are destroyed by a lunar penance at Śuklatīrtha, no doubt. / Moreover, whoever, having bathed at Śuklatīrtha, offers libations to the ancestral gods,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.27)

tasya te dvādaśābdāni tṛptiṃ yānti sutarpitāḥ .  
pādukopānahau chatraṃ śayyāmāsanameva ca .. 156.27 ..

> they, well-satisfied, remain content for twelve years. / Wooden sandals, leather shoes, an umbrella, a bed, and a seat,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.28)

suvarṇaṃ dhanadhānyaṃ ca śrāddhaṃ yuktahalaṃ tathā .  
annaṃ pānīyasaṃhitaṃ tasmiṃstīrthe dadanti ye .. 156.28 ..

> gold, wealth, grain, a funeral feast, a yoked plough, / food together with drinking water — those who give \[these\] at that sacred ford,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.29)

hṛṣṭāḥ puṣṭā mṛtā yānti śivalokaṃ na saṃśayaḥ .  
tatra tīrthe tu yo bhaktyā śivamuddiśya bhārata .. 156.29 ..

> joyful and thriving, go to the world of Śiva when dead, without doubt. / O Bhārata, whoever at that sacred ford, with devotion dedicated to Śiva,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.30)

bhikṣāmātraṃ tathānnaṃ ye te'pi svaryānti vai narāḥ .  
yajvināṃ vratināṃ caiva tatra tīrthanivāsinām .. 156.30 ..

> offers even mere alms-food, those men also go to heaven. / For sacrificers and observers of vows dwelling at that sacred ford,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.31)

api vālāgramātraṃ hi dattaṃ bhavati cākṣayam .  
agnipraveśaṃ yaḥ kuryācchuklatīrthe samāhitaḥ .. 156.31 ..

> even \[a gift\] measuring the tip of a hair becomes imperishable. / He who, concentrated in mind, enters fire at Śuklatīrtha,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.32)

rāgadveṣavinirmukto hṛdi dhyātvā janārdanam .  
sarvakāmasusampūrṇaḥ sa gacchedvāruṇaṃ puram .. 156.32 ..

> freed from passion and hatred, meditating on Janārdana in his heart, / completely fulfilled in all desires, goes to the city of Varuṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.33)

na rogo na jarā tatra yatra devo'ṃbhasāṃ patiḥ .  
anāśakaṃ tu yaḥ kuryāttasmiṃstīrthe yudhiṣṭhira .. 156.33 ..

> There is neither disease nor old age there where the god is the lord of waters. / But he who undertakes a fast unto death at that sacred ford, O Yudhiṣṭhira,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.34)

anivartikā gatistasya rudralokādasaṃśayam .  
avaśaḥ svavaśo vāpi jantustatkṣetramaṇḍale .. 156.34 ..

> his destination from the world of Rudra has no return, without doubt. / Whether helpless or in control of himself, any creature in the circle of that sacred field  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.35)

mṛtaḥ sa tu na sandeho rudrasyānucaro bhavet .  
śuklatīrthe tu yaḥ kanyāṃ śaktyā dadyādalaṃkṛtām .. 156.35 ..

> who dies becomes an attendant of Rudra, there is no doubt. / Whoever gives away an adorned maiden at Śuklatīrtha according to his means,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.36)

vidhinā yo nṛpaśreṣṭha kurute vṛṣamokṣaṇam .  
tasya yatphalamuddiṣṭaṃ purāṇe rudrabhāṣitam .. 156.36 ..

> and he who performs the release of a bull according to rule, O best of kings — / the fruit of that declared in the Purāṇa as spoken by Rudra,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.37)

tadahaṃ sampravakṣyāmi śṛṇuṣvaikamanā nṛpa .  
yāvanto romakūpāḥ syuḥ sarvāṅgeṣu pṛthakpṛthak .. 156.37 ..

> that I will explain fully; listen with an attentive mind, O king: / as many hair-pores as there are across all his limbs separately,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.38)

tāvadvarṣasahasrāṇi rudraloke mahīyate .  
śuklatīrthe tu yaddattaṃ grahaṇe candrasūryayoḥ .. 156.38 ..

> for that many thousands of years he is exalted in the world of Rudra. / Whatever is given at Śuklatīrtha during an eclipse of the moon or the sun  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.39)

vardhate tadguṇaṃ tāvaddināni daśa pañca ca .  
śuklatīrthe śucirbhūtvā yaḥ karoti pradakṣiṇam .. 156.39 ..

> multiplies by that factor for fifteen days. / Having become pure, whoever circumambulates Śuklatīrtha,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.40)

pṛthvī pradakṣiṇā tena kṛtā yattasya tatphalam .  
śobhanaṃ mithunaṃ yastu rudramuddiśya pūjayet .. 156.40 ..

> the earth has been circumambulated by him — such is the fruit he attains. / But he who worships an auspicious couple, dedicating \[it\] to Rudra,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.41)

sapta janmāni tasyaiva viyogo na ca vai kvacit .  
etatte kathitaṃ rājan saṃkṣepeṇa phalaṃ mahat .. 156.41 ..

> for him there is never any separation across seven births. / This great fruit has been told to you in brief, O king,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.42)

śuklatīrthasya yatpuṇyaṃ yathā devācchrutaṃ mayā .  
ya idaṃ śṛṇuyādbhaktyā purāṇe vihitaṃ phalam .. 156.42 ..

> the merit of Śuklatīrtha, as heard by me from the god. / Whoever hears this fruit enjoined in the Purāṇa with devotion,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.43)

sa labhennātra sandehaḥ satyaṃ satyaṃ punaḥ punaḥ .  
putrārthī labhate putraṃ dhanārthī labhate dhanam .. 156.43 ..

> he shall obtain it, there is no doubt here; it is true, true again and again. / One desiring a son obtains a son; one desiring wealth obtains wealth;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.44)

mokṣārthī labhate mokṣaṃ snānadānaphalaṃ mahat .. 156.44 ..

> one desiring liberation obtains liberation, the great fruit of bathing and giving.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.156.44\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.156.44_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe śuklatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṭpañcāśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred fifty-sixth chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Śuklatīrtha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the great Skanda Purāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.156.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.156.1) — Sanskrit
- [Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣadaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.sannyasa.samnyasaupanisadah.6.284) — Sanskrit

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