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# Skandapurana 6.3.162

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.162

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.162.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.162.p1)

adhyāya 162

> Chapter 162  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.162.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.162.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.162.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.162.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.162.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.162.5\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.162.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.162.1) — Sanskrit

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