[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) › 6.3.188 # Skandapurana 6.3.188 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.188 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.188.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.1) adhyāya 188 śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tataḥ paraṃ mahārāja catvāriṃśatkramāntare . śālagrāmaṃ tato gacchetsarvadaivatapūjitam .. 188.1 .. > Chapter 188. / The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Beyond that, O great king, at an interval of forty paces, / one should go to Śālagrāma, worshipped by all the gods, 188.1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.2) yatrādidevo bhagavānvāsudevastrivikramaḥ . svayaṃ tiṣṭhati lokātmā sarveṣāṃ hitakāmyayā .. 188.2 .. > where the primal god, the blessed Vāsudeva Trivikrama, / the Soul of the World, dwells in person, out of a desire for the welfare of all. 188.2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.3) nāradena tapastaptvā kṛtā śālā dvijanmanām . siddhikṣetraṃ bhṛgukṣetraṃ jñātvā revātaṭe svayam .. 188.3 .. > Nārada, having performed austerity, himself made a dwelling for the twice-born / on the bank of the Revā, knowing it to be a field of perfections, Bhṛgukṣetra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.4) śālagrāmābhidho devo viprāṇāṃ tvadhivāsitaḥ . sādhūnāṃ copakārāya vāsudevaḥ pratiṣṭhitaḥ .. 188.4 .. > The god named Śālagrāma was made to abide \[there\] for the brahmins, / and Vāsudeva was established for the welfare of the virtuous. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.5) yogināmupakārāya yogidhyeyo janārdanaḥ . śālagrāmeti tenaiva narmadātaṭamāśritaḥ .. 188.5 .. > Janārdana, who is to be meditated upon by yogins, for the welfare of yogins / resorted to the bank of the Narmadā precisely under the name Śālagrāma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.6) māsi mārgaśire śuklā bhavatyekādaśī yadā . snātvā revājale puṇye taddinaṃ samupoṣayet .. 188.6 .. > When the bright eleventh day occurs in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa, / one should bathe in the holy waters of the Revā and observe a fast on that day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.7) rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ kuryātsampūjya ca janārdanam . punaḥ prabhātasamaye dvādaśyāṃ narmadājale .. 188.7 .. > Having worshipped Janārdana, one should keep vigil at night. / Then, at dawn on the twelfth day, in the waters of the Narmadā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.8) snātvā saṃtarpya devāṃśca pitṝnmātṝṃstathaiva ca . śrāddhaṃ kṛtvā tataḥ paścātpitṛbhyo vidhipūrvakam .. 188.8 .. > having bathed and offered libations to the gods, the fathers, and likewise the mothers, / and thereafter having performed a śrāddha for the ancestors according to rule, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.9) śaktito brāhmaṇānpūjya svarṇavastrānnadānataḥ . kṣamāpayitvā tānviprāṃstathā devaṃ khagadhvajam .. 188.9 .. > having honoured brahmins according to one's means with gifts of gold, garments, and food, / and having asked forgiveness of those brahmins and likewise of the god whose banner is a bird, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.10) evaṃ kṛte mahārāja yatpuṇyaṃ ca bhavennṝṇām . śṛṇuṣvāvahito bhūtvā tatpuṇyaṃ nṛpasattama .. 188.10 .. > listen attentively, O best of kings, to that merit / which accrues to men when this is done, O great king: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.11) na śokaduḥkhe pratipatsyatīha jīvanmṛto yāti murārisāmyam . mahānti pāpāni visṛjya dugdhaṃ punarna mātuḥ pibate stanodyat .. 188.11 .. > He will not encounter sorrow and grief in this world; liberated while living, he attains equality with Murāri. / Having discarded great sins, he never again drinks milk flowing from a mother's breast. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.12) śālagrāmaṃ paśyate yo hi nityaṃ snātvā jale nārmade'ghaughahāre . sa mucyate brahmahatyādipāpairnārāyaṇānusmaraṇena tena .. 188.12 .. > Whoever, having bathed in the waters of the Narmadā that remove torrents of sin, regularly beholds Śālagrāma, / is freed from sins such as the killing of a brahmin through that remembrance of Nārāyaṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.13) vasanti ye saṃnyasitvā ca tatra nigṛhya duḥkhāni vimuktasaṅghāḥ . dhyāyanto vai sāṃkhyavṛttyā turīyaṃ padaṃ murāreste'pi tatraiva yānti .. 188.13 .. > Those who, having renounced, dwell there, having subdued sufferings and freed themselves from attachments, / meditating through the method of Sāṅkhya, they too go to that very fourth state, the abode of Murāri. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.188.13\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188.13_1) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe śālagrāmatīrthamahātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmāṣṭāśītyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Śālagrāmatīrtha', 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.6.3.188.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.188.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.188) · Pramāṇa