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# Skandapurana 6.3.184

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.184

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.184.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.1)

adhyāya 184  
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
dhautapāpaṃ tato gacchedbhṛgutīrthasamīpataḥ .  
vṛṣeṇa tu bhṛgustatra bhūyobhūyo dhutastataḥ .. 184.1 ..

> Chapter 184  
> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Then one should go to Dhautapāpa, near the Bhṛgu sacred ford.  
> There Bhṛgu was shaken again and again by the bull.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.2)

dhautapāpaṃ tu tattena nāmnā lokeṣu viśrutam .  
tatra sthito mahādevastuṣṭyarthaṃ bhṛgusattame .. 184.2 ..

> Therefore, it is renowned in the worlds by the name Dhautapāpa.  
> The Great God remained there, O best of the Bhṛgus, to bestow satisfaction.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.3)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā śāṭhyenāpi nareśvara .  
mucyate sarvapāpebhyo nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 184.3 ..

> Whoever bathes in that sacred ford, O lord of men, even deceitfully,  
> is freed from all sins; there should be no doubt about this.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.4)

yastu samyagvidhānena tatra snātvārcayecchivam .  
devānpitṝnsamabhyarcya mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ .. 184.4 ..

> Moreover, whoever bathes there according to proper rite and worships Śiva,  
> and honours the gods and the ancestors, is freed from all mortal sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.5)

brahmahatyā gavāṃ vadhyā tatra tīrthe yudhiṣṭhira .  
praviśenna sadā bhītā praviṣṭāpi kṣayaṃ vrajet .. 184.5 ..

> The murder of a brahmin and the slaughter of cows, O Yudhiṣṭhira,  
> terrified, would never enter that sacred ford; and even if entered, they would perish.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.6)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
āścaryabhūtaṃ loke'sminkathayasva dvijottama .  
praviśenna brahmahatyā yathā vai dhautapāpmani .. 184.6 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said:  
> Tell of this wondrous thing in this world, O best of brahmins,  
> how the murder of a brahmin indeed does not enter Dhautapāpa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.7)

brahmahatyāsamaṃ pāpaṃ bhavitā neha kiṃcana .  
kathaṃ vā dhautapāpe tu praviṣṭaṃ naśyate dvija .  
etadvistarataḥ sarvaṃ pṛcchāmi vada kautukāt .. 184.7 ..

> There will be no sin equal to the murder of a brahmin here \[in this world\].  
> How, then, having entered Dhautapāpa, is it destroyed, O brahmin?  
> I ask all this in detail out of curiosity; please tell it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.8)

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
ādisarge purā śambhurbrahmaṇaḥ parameṣṭhinaḥ .  
vikāraṃ pañcamaṃ dṛṣṭvā śiro'śvamukhasannibham .. 184.8 ..

> Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Formerly, at the primordial creation, Śambhu, seeing the unnatural fifth head  
> of Brahmā Parameṣṭhin, which resembled a horse's face,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.9)

aṅguṣṭhāṅguliyogena tacchirastena kṛntitam .  
kṛttamātre tu śirasi brahmahatyā'bhavattadā .. 184.9 ..

> severed that head with the join of his thumb and finger.  
> As soon as the head was severed, the murder of a brahmin arose then.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.10)

brahmahatyāyutaścāsīduttare narmadātaṭe .  
dhunitaṃ tu yato rājanvṛṣeṇa dharmamūrtinā .. 184.10 ..

> And he was joined with the murder of a brahmin on the northern bank of the Narmadā.  
> Because he was shaken off by the bull who is the embodiment of dharma, O king,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.11)

tatra dhauteśvarīṃ devīṃ sthāpitāṃ vṛṣabheṇa tu .  
dadarśa bhagavāñchambhuḥ sarvadaivatapūjitām .. 184.11 ..

> the Blessed Lord Śambhu saw the goddess Dhauteśvarī installed there  
> by the bull, worshipped by all the deities.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.12)

dṛṣṭvā dhauteśvarīṃ durgāṃ brahmahatyāvināśinīm .  
tatra viśramamāṇaśca śaṅkarastripurāntakaḥ .. 184.12 ..

> Having seen Durgā Dhauteśvarī, the destroyer of the murder of a brahmin,  
> Śaṃkara, the destroyer of Tripura, rested there.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.13)

sa śaṅkaro brahmahatyāvihīnaṃ mene tmānaṃ tasya tīrthasya bhāvāt .  
suvismito devadevo vareṇyo dṛṣṭvā dūre brahmahatyāṃ ca tīrthāt .. 184.13 ..

> That Śaṃkara, the god of gods, the choice one, considered himself free from the murder of a brahmin  
> due to the power of that sacred ford, deeply amazed upon seeing the murder of a brahmin far from the sacred ford.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.14)

vidhautapāpaṃ mahitaṃ dharmaśaktyā viśenna hatyā devībhayātprabhītā .  
raktāmbarā raktamālyopayuktā kṛṣṇā nārī raktadāmaprasaktā .. 184.14 ..

> Magnified by the power of dharma, the murder, frightened through fear of the goddess,  
> would not enter the cleansed-sin \[ford\]—a dark woman clad in red garments, wearing red garlands, attached to a red cord.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.15)

māṃ vāñchantī skandhadeśaṃ rahasye dūre sthitā tīrthavaryaprabhāvāt .  
saṃcintya devo manasā smarārirvāsāya buddhiṃ tatra tīrthe cakāra .. 184.15 ..

> "Desiring me, \[yet\] standing in secret afar from the region of my shoulder by the power of the foremost sacred ford—" / reflecting \[thus\] in his mind, the god, the enemy of Smara, resolved to dwell at that sacred ford.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.16)

vimṛśya devo bahuśaḥ sthitaḥ svayaṃ vidhautapāpaḥ prathitaḥ pṛthivyām .  
babhūva tatraiva nivāsakārī vidhūtapāpanikaṭapradeśe .. 184.16 ..

> Having reflected repeatedly, the god himself remained, renowned on earth as \[the cleanser of\] washed-away sin; / he made his abode right there, in the region adjacent to \[where sins are\] washed away.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.17)

tadāprabhṛti rājendra brahmahatyāvināśanam .  
vidhautapāpaṃ tattīrthaṃ narmadāyāṃ vyavasthitam .. 184.17 ..

> From that time forth, O king of kings, that sacred ford, which destroys the murder of a brahmin, / has been established on the Narmadā, known as Vidhautapāpa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.18)

āśvayukśuklanavamī tatra tīrthe viśiṣyate .  
dinatrayaṃ tu rājendra saptamyādiviśeṣataḥ .. 184.18 ..

> The ninth day of the bright fortnight of Āśvina is especially distinguished at that sacred ford, / and indeed a period of three days, O king of kings, beginning with the seventh.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.19)

samupoṣyāṣṭamīṃ bhaktyā sāṅgaṃ vedaṃ paṭhettu yaḥ .  
ahorātreṇa caikena ṛgyajuḥsāmasaṃjñakam .. 184.19 ..

> Having fasted with devotion on the eighth day, whoever reads the Veda together with its auxiliary limbs /—comprising the Ṛg, Yajus, and Sāma—in a single day and night,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.20)

abhyasanbrahmahatyāyā mucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .  
vṛṣalīgamanaṃ caiva yaśca gurvaṅganāgamaḥ .. 184.20 ..

> reciting it, is freed from the murder of a brahmin—of this there is no doubt— / and also from intercourse with an outcaste woman, and approaching the wife of an elder.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.21)

snātvā brahmarasotkṛṣṭe kumbhenaiva pramucyate .  
vandhyā strījananī yā tu kākavandhyā mṛtaprajā .. 184.21 ..

> Having bathed with a single pot \[of water\] superior with the water of Brahmā, one is completely freed. / A woman who is barren, one who gives birth only to daughters, one who bears a single child, or one whose offspring die—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.22)

sāpi kumbhodakaiḥ snātā jīvatputrā prajāvatī .  
apaṭhastu naropoṣya ṛgyajuḥsāmasambhavām .. 184.22 ..

> she too, having bathed with the water from jars, becomes the mother of living sons, blessed with children. / Even a man who cannot recite, having fasted, \[if\] born of the Ṛg, Yajus, or Sāma,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.23)

ṛcamekāṃ japanviprastathā parvaṇi yo nṛpa .  
anṛcopoṣya gāyatrīṃ japedvai vedamātaram .. 184.23 ..

> a brahmin reciting a single verse of the Ṛg on the new/full moon day, O king; / or, fasting without the Ṛg verses, one should chant the Gāyatrī, the mother of the Vedas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.24)

japannavamyāṃ viprendro mucyate pāpasañcayāt .  
evaṃ tu kathitaṃ tāta purāṇoktaṃ maharṣibhiḥ .. 184.24 ..

> Chanting on the ninth day, the foremost of brahmins is freed from an accumulation of sins. / Thus has been related, dear one, what was spoken by the great seers in the Purāṇas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.25)

dhautapāpaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ śivena kathitaṃ mama .  
prāṇatyāgaṃ tu yaḥ kuryājjale vāgnau sthale'pi vā .. 184.25 ..

> Dhautapāpa, of great religious merit, was declared to me by Śiva. / But whoever gives up life in water, in fire, or on land,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.26)

sa gacchati vimānena jvalanārkasamaprabhaḥ .  
haṃsabarhiprayuktena sevyamāno'psarogaṇaiḥ .. 184.26 ..

> he goes in an aerial chariot shining like the blazing sun, / drawn by swans and peacocks, attended by hosts of apsarases,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.27)

śivasya paramaṃ sthānaṃ yatsurairapi durlabham .  
krīḍate svecchayā tatra yāvaccandrārkatārakam .. 184.27 ..

> to the supreme abode of Śiva, which is difficult to attain even by the gods. / There he sports at his own will as long as the moon, sun, and stars endure.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.28)

dhautapāpe tu yā nārī kurute prāṇasaṃkṣayam .  
tatkṣaṇādeva sā pārtha puruṣatvamavāpnuyāt .. 184.28 ..

> Moreover, whatever woman brings about the end of her life at Dhautapāpa, / at that very moment, O Pārtha, she attains the state of being male.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.29)

atha kiṃ bahunoktena śubhaṃ vā yadi vāśubham .  
tadakṣayaphalaṃ sarvaṃ dhautapāpe kṛtaṃ nṛpa .. 184.29 ..

> Now, what is the use of speaking much? Whether auspicious or inauspicious, / whatever is done at Dhautapāpa bears imperishable fruit, O king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.30)

saṃnyasenniyamenānnaṃ saṃnyasedviṣayādikam .  
phalamūlādikaṃ caiva jalamekaṃ na saṃtyajet .. 184.30 ..

> One should regularly renounce grain, and renounce the objects of the senses and the like; / \[eating\] roots, fruits, and so forth, one must not abandon water alone.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.31)

evaṃ yaḥ kurute pārtha rudralokaṃ sa gacchati .  
tatra bhuktvākhilānbhogāñjāyate bhuvi bhūpatiḥ .. 184.31 ..

> Whoever acts thus, O Pārtha, goes to the world of Rudra. / Having enjoyed all pleasures there, he is born as a king on earth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.184.31\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.184.31_1)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe dhautapāpatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma caturaśītyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-fourth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford of Dhautapāpa', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.184.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.184.1) — Sanskrit

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