[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) › 6.3.164 # Skandapurana 6.3.164 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.164 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.164.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.p1) adhyāya 164 > Chapter 164 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.1) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tato gacchenmahārāja sāṃvauraṃ tīrthamuttamam . yatra saṃnihito bhānuḥ pūjyamānaḥ surāsuraiḥ .. 164.1 .. > The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O great king, one should go to the excellent Sāṃvaura sacred ford, / where the sun is present, worshipped by gods and asuras. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.2) tatra ye paṅgutāṃ prāptāḥ śīrṇaghrāṇanakhā narāḥ . dadrumaṇḍalabhinnāṅgā makṣikākṛmisaṃkulāḥ .. 164.2 .. > Men who have become lame there, whose noses and nails are decayed, / whose bodies are shattered by rings of ringworm, afflicted by flies and worms, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.3) mātāpitṛbhyāṃ rahitā bhrātṛbhāryāvivarjitāḥ . anāthā vikalā vyaṅgā magnā ye duḥkhasāgare .. 164.3 .. > bereft of father and mother, abandoned by brothers and wives, / helpless, crippled, deformed, sunk in an ocean of sorrow— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.4) teṣāṃ nātho jagadyonirnarmadātaṭamāśritaḥ . sāṃvauranātho lokānāmārtihā duḥkhanāśanaḥ .. 164.4 .. > their protector is the source of the world, residing on the bank of the Narmadā: / the Lord of Sāṃvaura, who dispels the distress and destroys the sorrow of all worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.5) tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā māsamekaṃ nirantaram . pūjayedbhāskaraṃ devaṃ tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 164.5 .. > For him who, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships the sun god / continuously for one month, hear the fruit of that merit: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.6) yatphalaṃ cottare pārtha tathā vai pūrvasāgare . dakṣiṇe paścime snātvā tatra tīrthe tu tatphalam .. 164.6 .. > Whatever fruit \[comes from\] bathing in the northern and in the eastern ocean, O son of Pṛthā, / and likewise in the southern and western, that same fruit is obtained at that sacred ford. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.7) kaumāre yauvane pāpaṃ vārddhake yacca saṃcitam . tatpraṇaśyati sāṃvaure snānamātrānna saṃśayaḥ .. 164.7 .. > The sin accumulated in childhood, in youth, and in old age, / is destroyed simply by bathing at Sāṃvaura, without a doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.8) na vyādhirnaiva dāridryaṃ na caiveṣṭaviyojanam . saptajanmāni rājendra sāṃvauraparisevanāt .. 164.8 .. > There is no disease, nor poverty, nor separation from dear ones / for seven births, O king of kings, from attendance upon Sāṃvaura. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.9) saptamyāmupavāsena taddine cāpyupoṣite . sa tatphalamavāpnoti tatra snātvā na saṃśayaḥ .. 164.9 .. > By fasting on the seventh lunar day, and having fasted on that day, / he obtains that fruit by bathing there; there is no doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.10) raktacandanamiśreṇa yadarghyeṇa phalaṃ smṛtam . tatra tīrthe nṛpaśreṣṭha snātvā tatphalamāpnuyāt .. 164.10 .. > The fruit that is remembered as arising from an oblation mixed with red sandalwood— / by bathing at that sacred ford, O best of kings, he attains that fruit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.11) narmadāsalilaṃ ramyaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam . nirīkṣitaṃ viśeṣeṇa sāṃvaureṇa mahātmanā .. 164.11 .. > The charming water of the Narmadā, destroying all sins, / is especially beheld by the great-souled \[god\] of Sāṃvaura. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.12) te dhanyāste mahātmānasteṣāṃ janma sujīvitam . snātvā paśyanti deveśaṃ sāṃvaureśvaramuttamam .. 164.12 .. > Fortunate are they, great-souled are they, and well-lived is their life, / who, having bathed, behold the supreme Lord of the gods, Sāṃvaureśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.13) sūryaloke vasettāvadyāvadābhūtasamplavam .. 164.13 .. > He shall dwell in the world of the sun until the dissolution of all beings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.164.13\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164.13_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe sāṃvaureśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma catuḥṣaṣṭyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-fourth chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Sāṃvaureśvaratīrtha, 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.6.3.164.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.164.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.164) · Pramāṇa