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# Skandapurana 6.3.189

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.189

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.189.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.1)

adhyāya 189  
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchettu rājendra tīrthaṃ paramaśobhanam .  
udīrṇo yatra vārāho hyabhavaddharaṇīdharaḥ .. 189.1 ..

> Chapter 189. / Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O best of kings, one should go to the exceedingly splendid tīrtha / where the Boar, the upholder of the earth, arose.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.2)

dhanvadaṃṣṭrāṃ karālāgrāṃ bibhracca pṛthivīmimām .  
sa eva pañcamaḥ prokto vārāho muktidāyakaḥ .. 189.2 ..

> Bearing this earth on his terrifying, curved tusk-tip, / he is declared to be the fifth Boar, the bestower of liberation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.3)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
kathamudīrṇarūpo'bhūdvārāho dharaṇīdharaḥ .  
vārāhatvaṃ gataḥ kena pañcamaḥ kena saṃjñitaḥ .. 189.3 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said: / How did the Boar, the upholder of the earth, come to have an elevated form? / Why did he assume the state of a boar, and why is he called the fifth?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.4)

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
ādikalpe purā rājankṣīrode bhagavān hariḥ .  
śete sa bhogiśayane yoganidrāvimohitaḥ .. 189.4 ..

> Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Formerly, in the primeval kalpa, O king, the blessed Lord Hari / was sleeping in the Ocean of Milk upon the serpent-bed, captivated by yogic sleep.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.5)

babhūva nṛpatiśreṣṭha gatvā vai devasaṃnidhau .  
avocadbhārakhinnāhaṃ gamiṣyāmi rasātalam .. 189.5 ..

> She went into the presence of the god, O best of kings, / and said, 'Afflicted by burden, I will go down to the netherworld.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.6)

dṛṣṭvā devāḥ samudvignā gatā yatra janārdanaḥ .  
tuṣṭuvurvāgbhiriṣṭābhiḥ keśavaṃ jagatpatim .. 189.6 ..

> Seeing \[this\], the agitated gods went where Janārdana was / and praised Keśava, the lord of the universe, with pleasing words.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.7)

devā ūcuḥ .  
namo namaste deveśa surārtihara sarvaga .  
viśvamūrte namastubhyaṃ trāhi sarvānmahadbhayāt .. 189.7 ..

> The gods said: / 'Salutations, salutations to you, O lord of gods, O remover of the distress of the gods, O omnipresent one! / Salutations to you, whose form is the universe! Protect all from great danger!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.8)

ityukto daivatairdevo hyuvāca kimupasthitam .  
kāryaṃ vadadhvaṃ me devā yatkṛtyaṃ mā ciraṃ kṛthāḥ .. 189.8 ..

> Thus addressed by the deities, the god said: 'What has occurred? / Tell me what task must be done, O gods; do not delay.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.9)

devā ūcuḥ .  
dharā dharitrī bhūtānāṃ bhārodvignā nimajjati .  
tāmuddhara hṛṣīkeśa lokānsaṃsthāpaya sthitau .. 189.9 ..

> The gods said: / 'The earth, the supporter of beings, is sinking down, troubled by her burden. / Lift her up, O Hṛṣīkeśa! Establish the worlds in stability!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.10)

evamuktaḥ suraiḥ sarvaiḥ keśavaḥ parameśvaraḥ .  
vārāhaṃ rūpamāsthāya sarvayajñamayaṃ vibhuḥ .. 189.10 ..

> Thus spoken to by all the gods, the all-pervading Keśava, the supreme lord, / assumed the form of a boar, consisting of all sacrifices,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.11)

daṃṣṭrākarālaṃ piṅgākṣaṃ samākuñcitamūrdhajam .  
kṛtvā'nantaṃ pādapīṭhaṃ daṃṣṭrāgreṇoddharanbhuvam .. 189.11 ..

> with terrifying tusks, tawny eyes, and curled bristles, / making Ananta his footstool and lifting up the earth with the tip of his tusk.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.12)

saparvatavanāmurvīṃ samudraparimekhalām .  
uddhṛtya bhagavān viṣṇurudīrṇaḥ samajāyata .. 189.12 ..

> Having lifted up the earth with its mountains and forests, whose girdle is the ocean, / the blessed Lord Viṣṇu became elevated (Udīrṇa).  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.13)

darśayanpañcadhātmānamuttare narmadātaṭe .  
tathādyaṃ koralāyāṃ tu dvitīyaṃ yodhanīpure .. 189.13 ..

> Displaying himself in five ways on the northern bank of the Narmadā: / thus, the first at Koralā, but the second at Yodhanīpura;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.14)

jayakṣetrābhidhāne tu jayeti parikīrtitam .  
asurānmohayalliṅgastṛtīyaḥ parikīrtitaḥ .. 189.14 ..

> in the place called Jayakṣetra, he is proclaimed as Jaya; / the third is proclaimed as Liṅga, bewildering the asuras;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.15)

pāvanāya jagaddhetoḥ sthito yasmācchaśiprabhaḥ .  
atastu nṛpaśārdūla śveta ityābhidhīyate .. 189.15 ..

> because he stood shining like the moon for the purification of the world, / therefore, O tiger among kings, he is called Śveta;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.16)

uddhṛtya jagatāṃ devīmudīrṇo bhṛgukacchake .  
tataḥ pañcama udīrṇo varāha iti saṃjñitaḥ .. 189.16 ..

> having lifted up the goddess of the worlds, he arose at Bhṛgukaccha; / therefore, the fifth is named the Varāha Udīrṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.17)

iti pañcavarāhāste kathitaḥ pāṇḍunandana .  
yugapaddarśanaṃ caiṣāṃ brahmahatyāṃ vyapohati .. 189.17 ..

> Thus the five Boars have been told to you, O son of Pāṇḍu; / a simultaneous sight of them removes the sin of killing a brahmin.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.18)

jyeṣṭhe māsi site pakṣa ekādaśyāṃ viśeṣataḥ .  
gatvā hyādivarāhaṃ tu samprāpte daśamīdine .. 189.18 ..

> Especially on the eleventh day in the bright half of the month of Jyeṣṭha, / having gone to the First Boar when the tenth day has arrived,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.19)

haviṣyamannaṃ bhuñjīyāllaghusāyaṃ gate ravau .  
rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ kuryādvārāhe hyādisaṃjñake .. 189.19 ..

> one should eat sacrificial food lightly at evening when the sun has set; / one should keep vigil at night at \[the shrine of\] the one named the First Boar.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.20)

tataḥ prabhāte hyuṣasi saṃsnātvā narmadājale .  
saṃtarpya pitṛdevāṃśca tilairyavavimiśritaiḥ .. 189.20 ..

> Then at dawn at sunrise, having bathed in the waters of the Narmadā / and having gratified the ancestors and gods with sesamum mixed with barley,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.21)

dhenuṃ dadyāddvije yogye sarvābharaṇabhūṣitām .  
nirmamo nirahaṅkāro dānaṃ dadyāddvijātaye .. 189.21 ..

> one should give a cow adorned with all ornaments to a suitable twice-born. / Free from possessiveness and egotism, one should give a gift to the twice-born.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.22)

gatvā sampūjayeddevaṃ vārāhaṃ hyādisaṃjñitam .  
anena vidhinā pūjya paścādgacchejjayaṃ tvaran .. 189.22 ..

> Going \[there\], one should worship the god called the First Boar. / Having worshipped according to this rite, one should then hasten to Jaya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.23)

tvaritaṃ tu jayaṃ gatvā pūrvakaṃ vidhimācaret .  
aśvaṃ dadyāddvijāgryāya jayapūrvābhinirgatam .. 189.23 ..

> Having quickly gone to Jaya, one should perform the previous rite; / one should give a horse that has set forth from the east to an excellent twice-born at Jaya.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.24)

liṅge caiva tilā deyāḥ śvete hiraṇyameva ca .  
udīrṇe ca bhuvaṃ dadyātpūrvakaṃ vidhimācaret .. 189.24 ..

> Sesamum should be given at Liṅga, and gold at Śveta; / at Udīrṇa one should give land, and perform the previous rite.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.25)

anastamita āditye varāhānpañca paśyataḥ .  
yatphalaṃ labhate pārtha tadihaikamanāḥ śṛṇu .. 189.25 ..

> Listen with single-minded focus to the fruit one obtains here, O son of Pṛthā, / when one beholds the five Boars before the sun has set:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.26)

brahmahatyā surāpānaṃ steyaṃ gurvaṅganāgamaḥ .  
ebhistu saha saṃyogo viśvastānāṃ ca vañcanam .. 189.26 ..

> The killing of a brahmin, drinking liquor, theft, violation of the guru's bed, / association with these \[sinners\], and deception of those who trust;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.27)

svasṛduhitṛbhaginīkuladāropabṛṃhaṇam .  
ā janmamaraṇādyāvatpāpaṃ bharatasattama .. 189.27 ..

> carnal approach to a sister, a daughter, \[or\] women of one's own family— / whatever sin there is from birth to death, O best of Bharatas,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.28)

tīrthapañcakapūtasya vaiṣṇavasya viśeṣataḥ .  
yugapaccavinaśyeta tūlarāśirivānalāt .. 189.28 ..

> of one purified by the five tīrthas, especially of a Vaiṣṇava, / it would all perish simultaneously, like a heap of cotton from fire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.29)

nārāyaṇānusmaraṇājjapadhyānādviśeṣataḥ .  
vipraṇaśyanti pāpāni girikūṭasamānyapi .. 189.29 ..

> From the remembrance of Nārāyaṇa, and especially from recitation and meditation, / sins, even if equal to mountain peaks, are completely destroyed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.30)

dṛṣṭvā pañca varāhānvai pauruṣe mahati sthitaḥ .  
āplavannarmadātoye śrāddhaṃ kṛtvā yathāvidhi .. 189.30 ..

> Having beheld the five boars, established in great spiritual effort, / bathing in the waters of the Narmadā, and having performed a śrāddha according to rule,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.31)

udayāstamanādarvāgyaḥ paśyelloṭaṇeśvaram .  
kalevaravimuktaḥ sa ityevaṃ śaṅkaro'bravīt .. 189.31 ..

> he who beholds Loṭaṇeśvara before sunset / is freed from his body—thus spoke Śaṅkara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.32)

muktiṃ prayāti sahasā duṣprāpāṃ parameśvarīm .  
pauruṣe kriyamāṇe'pi na siddhirjāyate yadi .. 189.32 ..

> He quickly attains liberation, the supreme sovereign state, difficult to reach. / Even if success is not achieved while the effort is being made,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.33)

bruvanti svargagamanamapi pāpānvitasya ca .  
yatra tatra gatasyaiva bhavetpañcavarāhakī .. 189.33 ..

> they declare that one attains heaven, even though endowed with sin. / Wherever one may go, the pilgrimage of the Five Boars would be \[fruitful\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.34)

jyeṣṭhasyaikādaśītithau dhruvaṃ tatra vasennaraḥ .  
ādiṃ jayaṃ tathā śvetaṃ liṅgamudīrṇameva ca .. 189.34 ..

> A man should certainly dwell there on the eleventh day of the month of Jyeṣṭha. / \[The boars\] Ādi, Jaya, as well as Śveta, and indeed the Udīrṇa-liṅga—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.35)

āśritya tasyā draṣṭavyā varāhāstu yatastataḥ .  
jyeṣṭhasyaikādaśītithau viṣṇunā prabhuviṣṇunā .. 189.35 ..

> having resorted to it, the boars are to be seen everywhere there. / On the eleventh lunar day of Jyeṣṭha, by Viṣṇu, the all-powerful Lord,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.36)

vārāhaṃ rūpamāsthāya uddhṛtā dharaṇī vibho .  
puṇyātpuṇyatamā tena hyaśeṣāghaughanāśinī .. 189.36 ..

> having assumed the form of a boar, the earth was lifted up, O lord. / Therefore, it is more sacred than the sacred, destroying the entire mass of sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.37)

dṛṣṭvā pañcavarāhānvai kroḍamudīrṇarūpiṇam .  
pūjayitvā vidhānena paścājjāgaraṇaṃ caret .. 189.37 ..

> Having beheld the five boars, and the boar in the form of Udīrṇa, / having worshipped according to the rite, he should then keep a night vigil.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.38)

sapañcavartikān dīpān ghṛtenojjvālya bhaktitaḥ .  
purāṇaśravaṇairnṛtyairgītavādyaiḥ sumaṅgalaiḥ .. 189.38 ..

> Having lit five-wick lamps with clarified butter with devotion, / through hearing the Purāṇas, dances, songs, and auspicious instrumental music,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.39)

vedajāpyaiḥ pavitraiśca kṣapayitvā ca śarvarīm .  
yatpuṇyaṃ labhate martyo hyājamīḍha śṛṇuṣva tat .. 189.39 ..

> and passing the night with sacred Vedic recitations— / whatever merit a mortal obtains, listen to that, O descendant of Ajamīḍha:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.40)

revājalaṃ puṇyatamaṃ pṛthivyāṃ tathā ca devo jagatāṃ patirhariḥ .  
ekādaśī pāpaharā narendra bahvāyāsairlabhyate mānavānām .. 189.40 ..

> The water of the Revā is the most sacred on earth, and likewise Hari is the lord of the worlds; / the eleventh day removes sins, O king, and is obtained by humans through great efforts.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.41)

ekaikaśo brahmahatyādikāni śaktāni hantuṃ pāpasaṅghāni rājan .  
naite sarve yugapadvai sametā hantuṃ śaktāḥ kiṃ na tadbrūhi rājan .. 189.41 ..

> Individually, these are capable of destroying hosts of sins such as the murder of a brahmin, O king. / All these having united at once—are they not capable of destroying them? Tell that, O king!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.42)

yathedamuktaṃ tava dharmasūno śrutaṃ ca yacchaṅkarāccandramauleḥ .  
śrutvedamicchanmucyate sarvapāpaiḥ paṭhanpadaṃ yāti hi vṛtraśatroḥ .. 189.42 ..

> Thus this has been spoken to you, O son of Dharma, as was heard from Śaṅkara, the moon-crested god. / Having heard this with desire, one is freed from all sins; by reciting it, one indeed goes to the abode of the enemy of Vṛtra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.189.42\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.189.42_1)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe narmadāmāhātmye udīrṇavarāhatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonanavatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of Udīrṇavarāhatīrtha', in the Glory of the Narmadā, in the Revākhaṇḍa, in the fifth Avantīkhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.189.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.189.1) — Sanskrit

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