Skandapurana 6.3.162
Skandapurāṇa 6.3.162
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adhyāya 162
Chapter 162
6.3.162.1
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
gopeśvaraṃ tato gacchetsarpakṣetrādanantaram .
yatra snānena caikena mucyante pātakairnarāḥ .. 162.1 ..
The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, immediately after the sacred field of the serpents, one should go to Gopeśvara, / where men are freed from sins by a single ritual ablution.
6.3.162.2
tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā kurute prāṇasaṃkṣayam .
sa gacchedyadi yukto'pi pāpena śivamandiram .. 162.2 ..
He who, having bathed at that sacred ford, brings about the end of his life, / goes to Śiva's abode, even if joined with sin.
6.3.162.3
tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayeddevamīśvaram .
mucyate sarvapāpaiśca rudralokaṃ sa gacchati .. 162.3 ..
He who, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships the god Īśvara, / is freed from all sins and goes to the realm of Rudra.
6.3.162.4
krīḍitvā ca yathākāmaṃ rudraloke mahātapāḥ .
iha mānuṣyatāṃ prāpya rājā bhavati dhārmikaḥ .. 162.4 ..
Having sported at will in the realm of Rudra, the performer of great austerities, / obtaining human birth here, becomes a righteous king.
6.3.162.5
hastyaśvarathasampanno dāsīdāsasamanvitaḥ .
pūjyamāno narendraiśca jīvedvarṣaśataṃ sukhī .. 162.5 ..
Endowed with elephants, horses, and chariots, accompanied by female and male servants, / and worshipped by rulers of men, he lives happily for a hundred years.
6.3.162.5_2
.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe gopeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma dviṣaṣṭyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..
Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-second chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Gopeśvaratīrtha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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