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# Skandapurana 6.3.168

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.168

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.168.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.p1)

adhyāya 168

> Chapter 168  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
narmadādakṣiṇe rodhasyaṅkūreśvaramuttamam .  
tīrthaṃ sarvaguṇopetaṃ triṣu lokeṣu viśrutam .. 168.1 ..

> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / On the southern bank of the Narmadā is excellent Aṅkūreśvara, / a tīrtha endowed with all virtues, celebrated throughout the three worlds,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.2)

yatra siddhaṃ mahārakṣa ārādhya tu maheśvaram .  
śaṅkaraṃ jagataḥ prāṇaṃ smṛtimātrāvahāriṇam .. 168.2 ..

> where a great rākṣasa attained perfection after worshipping Maheśvara, / Śaṃkara, the life-breath of the universe, who takes away \[afflictions\] by mere remembrance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.3)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
kiṃ tadrakṣo dvijaśreṣṭha kiṃnāma kasya vānvaye .  
etadvistarataḥ sarvaṃ kathayasva mamānagha .. 168.3 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said: / Who was that rākṣasa, O best of the twice-born? What was his name, and in whose lineage \[was he born\]? / Tell me all this in detail, O sinless one.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.4)

ajñānatimirāndhā ye pumāṃsaḥ pāpakāriṇaḥ .  
yuṣmadvidhairdīpabhūtaiḥ paśyanti sacarācaram .. 168.4 ..

> Men who are blinded by the darkness of ignorance and commit sins / perceive the moving and unmoving universe through people like you who serve as lamps.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.5)

dharmaputravacaḥ śrutvā mārkaṇḍeyo munīśvaraḥ .  
smitaṃ kṛtvā babhāṣe tāṃ kathāṃ pāpapraṇāśanīm .. 168.5 ..

> Having heard the words of the son of Dharma, Mārkaṇḍeya, the lord of sages, / smiled and recounted that sin-destroying story.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.6)

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
mānaso brahmaṇaḥ putraḥ pulastyo nāma pārthiva .  
vedaśāstrapravaktā ca sākṣādvedhā ivāparaḥ .. 168.6 ..

> Mārkaṇḍeya said: / There was a mind-born son of Brahmā named Pulastya, O king, / an expounder of the Vedas and treatises, like another Vedhas incarnate.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.7)

tṛṇabindusutā tasya bhāryāsītparameṣṭhinaḥ .  
tasya dharmaprasaṅgena putro jāto mahāmanāḥ .. 168.7 ..

> The daughter of Tṛṇabindu was the wife of that lord. / Through righteous union with her, a high-minded son was born,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.8)

yasmādvedetihāsaiśca saṣaḍaṅgapadakramāḥ .  
viśrāntā brahmaṇā dattā nāma viśravaseti ca .. 168.8 ..

> because the Vedas and Itihāsas, along with the six limbs, padas, and kramas, / found rest \[in him\], Brahmā gave him the name Viśravas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.9)

kasmiṃścidatha kāle ca bharadvājo mahāmuniḥ .  
svasutāṃ pradadau rājanmudā viśravase nṛpa .. 168.9 ..

> Then, at some time, the great sage Bharadvāja / gave his own daughter with joy to Viśravas, O king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.10)

sa tayā ramate sārdhaṃ paulomyā maghavā iva .  
mudā paramayā rājanbrāhmaṇo vedavittamaḥ .. 168.10 ..

> He sported with her as Maghavan does with Paulomī, / with supreme joy, O king—he, the brahmin who best understood the Vedas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.11)

kenacittvatha kālena putraḥ putraguṇairyutaḥ .  
jajñe viśravaso rājannāmnā vaiśravaṇaḥ śrutaḥ .. 168.11 ..

> Then, in the course of time, a son endowed with all filial virtues / was born to Viśravas, O king, celebrated by the name Vaiśravaṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.12)

so'pi maunavrataṃ kṛtvā bālabhāvādyudhiṣṭhira .  
sarvabhūtābhayaṃ dattvā cacāra paramaṃ vratam .. 168.12 ..

> He, having undertaken the vow of silence from childhood, O Yudhiṣṭhira, / and granting freedom from fear to all beings, practiced a supreme observance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.13)

tasya tuṣṭo mahādevo brahmā brahmarṣibhiḥ saha .  
sakhitvaṃ ceśvaro dattvā dhanadatvaṃ jagāma ha .. 168.13 ..

> Mahādeva and Brahmā, along with the brahmin seers, were pleased with him; / Īśvara, having granted \[him\] friendship, and Brahmā \[having granted\] the state of the giver of wealth, departed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.14)

yamendravaruṇānāṃ ca caturthastvaṃ bhaviṣyasi .  
brahmāpyuktvā jagāmāśu lokapālatvamīpsitam .. 168.14 ..

> “And you shall be the fourth along with Yama, Indra, and Varuṇa”; / having said this, Brahmā also quickly departed, having granted the desired status of a world protector.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.15)

tatastvanantare kāle kaikasī nāma rākṣasī .  
pātālaṃ bhūtalaṃ tyaktvā viśravaṃ cakame patim .. 168.15 ..

> Then, after that time, a rākṣasī named Kaikasī, / having left Pātāla and the earth, desired Viśravas as her husband.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.16)

putro'tha rāvaṇo jātastasyā bharatasattama .  
kumbhakarṇo mahārakṣo dharmātmā ca vibhīṣaṇaḥ .. 168.16 ..

> Then Rāvaṇa was born as her son, O best of the Bharatas, / and Kumbhakarṇa, the great rākṣasa, and righteous Vibhīṣaṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.17)

kumbhaścaiva vikumbhaśca kumbhakarṇasutāvubhau .  
mahābalau mahāvīryau mahāntau puruṣottama .. 168.17 ..

> Kumbha and Vikumbha were the two sons of Kumbhakarṇa, / mighty, very heroic, and eminent, O best of men.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.18)

aṅkūro rākṣasaśreṣṭhaḥ kumbhasya tanayo mahān .  
vibhīṣaṇaṃ ca guṇavaddṛṣṭvaivaṃ rākṣasottamaḥ .. 168.18 ..

> Aṅkūra, the foremost of rākṣasas, was the great son of Kumbha. / Seeing virtuous Vibhīṣaṇa thus, that best of rākṣasas,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.19)

tataḥ sa yauvanaṃ prāpya jñātvā rakṣaḥ pitāmaham .  
paraṃ nirvedamāpannaścacāra sumahattapaḥ .. 168.19 ..

> having attained youth and knowing the rākṣasa grandfather, / fell into deep despondency and performed very great austerity.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.20)

dakṣiṇaṃ paścimaṃ gatvā sāgaraṃ pūrvamuttaram .  
narmadāyāṃ prasaṅgena hyaṅkūro rākṣaseśvaraḥ .. 168.20 ..

> Having gone to the south, west, east, and north ocean, / in due course to the Narmadā, Aṅkūra, the lord of rākṣasas,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.21)

tapaścacāra sumahaddivyaṃ varṣaśataṃ kila .  
tatastuṣṭo mahādevaḥ sākṣātparapuraṃjayaḥ .. 168.21 ..

> performed very great austerity, indeed, for a divine hundred years. / Then Mahādeva, the conqueror of enemy citadels in visible form, was pleased.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.22)

vareṇa chandayāmāsa rākṣasaṃ vṛṣaketanaḥ .  
varaṃ vṛṇīṣva bhadraṃ te tava dāsyāmi suvrata .. 168.22 ..

> The bull-bannered Lord invited the rākṣasa to choose a boon: / “Choose a boon, may good betide you; I shall grant it to you, O man of firm vows.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.23)

provāca rākṣaso vākyaṃ devadevaṃ maheśvaram .  
varadaṃ so'grato dṛṣṭvā praṇamya ca punaḥpunaḥ .. 168.23 ..

> The rākṣasa spoke words to Maheśvara, the god of gods, / seeing before him the giver of boons and bowing again and again:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.24)

yadi tuṣṭo mahādeva varado'si sureśvara .  
durlabhaṃ sarvabhūtānāmamaratvaṃ prayaccha me .. 168.24 ..

> “If you are pleased, Mahādeva, and are the giver of boons, O lord of gods, / grant me immortality, which is difficult for all beings to obtain.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.25)

mama nāmnā sthito'nena vareṇa tripurāntaka .  
sadā saṃnihito'pyatra tīrthe bhavitumarhasi .. 168.25 ..

> And established here in this name of mine by this boon, O destroyer of Tripura, / you ought to be always present in this tīrtha.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.26)

īśvara uvāca -  
yāvadvibhīṣaṇamataṃ yāvaddharmaniṣevaṇam .  
kariṣyasi dṛḍhātmā tvaṃ tāvadetadbhaviṣyati .. 168.26 ..

> Īśvara said: / “As long as you follow the doctrine of Vibhīṣaṇa and serve righteousness / with a firm mind, so long shall this be.”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.27)

evamuktvā yayau devaḥ sarvadaivatapūjitaḥ .  
vimānenārkavarṇena kailāsaṃ dharaṇīdharam .. 168.27 ..

> Having spoken thus, the God worshipped by all deities departed / by an aerial chariot having the color of the sun to Kailāsa, the mountain of the earth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.28)

gate cādarśanaṃ deve snātvācamya vidhānataḥ .  
sthāpayāmāsa rājendra hyaṅkūreśvaramuttamam .. 168.28 ..

> When the God had vanished from sight, having bathed and sipped water according to the rules, / he established the excellent \[liṅga\] Aṅkūreśvara, O king of kings,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.29)

gandhapuṣpaistathā dhūpairvastrālaṅkārabhūṣaṇaiḥ .  
patākaiścāmaraiśchatrairjayaśabdādimaṃgalaiḥ .. 168.29 ..

> with perfumes, flowers, and incenses, with clothes and ornaments, / with banners, fly-whisks, parasols, and auspicious cries of victory and the like.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.30)

pūjayitvā sureśānaṃ stotrairhṛdyaiḥ supuṣkalaiḥ .  
jagāma bhavanaṃ rakṣo yatra rājā vibhīṣaṇaḥ .. 168.30 ..

> Having worshipped the lord of gods with delightful and abundant hymns of praise, / the rākṣasa went to the abode where King Vibhīṣaṇa was.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.31)

pūjitaḥ sa yathānyāyaṃ dānasanmānagauravaiḥ .  
saudarye sthāpito bhāve so'vātsītparayāmudā .. 168.31 ..

> Duly honored by him with gifts, respect, and reverence, / and treated with brotherly affection, he dwelt \[there\] with supreme joy.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.32)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayetparameśvaram .  
aṅkūreśvaranāmānaṃ so'śvamedhaphalaṃ labhet .. 168.32 ..

> Whoever bathes in that tīrtha and worships the Supreme Lord / named Aṅkūreśvara obtains the fruit of a horse sacrifice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.33)

māṇḍavyakhātamārabhya saṅgamaṃ vāpi yacchubham .  
revāyā āmalakyāśca devakṣetraṃ maheśvaram .. 168.33 ..

> Beginning from Māṇḍavyakhāta up to the auspicious confluence / of the Revā and the Āmalakī is the divine sacred field belonging to Maheśvara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.34)

māṇḍavyakhātātpaścimatastīrthaṃ tadaṅkūreśvaram .  
tatra tīrthe naraḥ snātvā śuciḥ prayatamānasaḥ .. 168.34 ..

> To the west of Māṇḍavyakhāta is that tīrtha called Aṅkūreśvara. / A man who bathes in that tīrtha, pure and with controlled mind,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.35)

sandhyāmācamya yatnena japaṃ kṛtvātha bhārata .  
tarpayitvā pitṝndevānmanuṣyān bharatarṣabha .. 168.35 ..

> having carefully sipped water for the twilight prayer, and then having performed japa, O Bhārata, / having offered libations to the ancestors, gods, and mortals, O bull of the Bharatas, —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.36)

sacailaḥ klinnavasano maunamāsthāya saṃyataḥ .  
aṣṭamyāṃ vā caturdaśyāmupoṣya vidhivannaraḥ .. 168.36 ..

> wearing his clothes, with wet garments, having maintained silence, restrained, / or fasting according to rule on the eighth or fourteenth day, a man  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.37)

pūjāṃ yaḥ kurute rājaṃstasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .  
sāgraṃ tu yojanaśataṃ tīrthānyāyatanāni ca .. 168.37 ..

> who performs worship, O king, hear the fruit of his merit: / more than a hundred yojanas of sacred fords and temples,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.38)

bhavanti tāni dṛṣṭāni tataḥ pāpaiḥ pramucyate .  
tatra tīrthe tu yaddānaṃ devamuddiśya dīyate .. 168.38 ..

> all those are regarded as seen \[by him\]; thereby he is freed from sins. / And whatever gift is offered at that sacred ford, dedicated to the deity,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.39)

snātvā tu vidhivatpātre tadakṣayamudāhṛtam .  
homāddaśaguṇaṃ proktaṃ phalaṃ jāpye tato'dhikam .. 168.39 ..

> after performing ritual ablution according to rule to a worthy recipient, that is declared imperishable. / Its fruit is said to be ten times greater than a fire sacrifice; greater still from muttered prayer;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.40)

triguṇaṃ copavāsena snānena ca caturguṇam .  
saṃnyāsaṃ kurute yastu prāṇatyāgaṃ karoti vā .. 168.40 ..

> three times greater from fasting, and four times from ritual ablution. / But one who undertakes renunciation or casts away his life,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.41)

anivartikā gatistasya rudralokādasaṃśayam .  
kṛmikīṭapataṅgānāṃ tatra tīrthe yudhiṣṭhira .  
aṅkūreśvaranāmākhye mṛtānāṃ sugatirbhavet .. 168.41 ..

> his course is irreversible, \[leading\] to the world of Rudra, without doubt. / For the worms, insects, and winged creatures dying in that sacred ford, O Yudhiṣṭhira, / named Aṅkūreśvara, an auspicious destination is attained.  
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### [6.3.168.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.42)

etatte kathitaṃ rājannaṅkūreśvarasambhavam .  
tīrthaṃ sarvaguṇopetaṃ paramaṃ pāpanāśanam .. 168.42 ..

> This has been told to you, O king, concerning the origin of Aṅkūreśvara, / a sacred ford endowed with all virtues, the supreme destroyer of sin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.43)

ye'pi śṛṇvanti bhaktyedaṃ kīrtyamānaṃ mahāphalam .  
labhante nātra sandehaḥ śivasya bhuvanaṃ hi te .. 168.43 ..

> Those who hear this being proclaimed with devotion, of great fruit, / they indeed attain the realm of Śiva; of this there is no doubt.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.168.43\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.168.43_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe aṅkūreśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmāṣṭaṣaṣṭyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Aṅkūreśvara Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.168.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.168.1) — Sanskrit

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