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Skandapurana 6.3.203

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.203

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6.3.203.p1

adhyāyaḥ 203

Chapter 203

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6.3.203.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gaccheddharādhīśa koṭitīrthamanuttamam .
yatra siddhā mahābhāgāḥ koṭisaṃkhyā maharṣayaḥ .. 203.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the unsurpassed Koṭitīrtha, / where illustrious great seers numbering ten million attained perfection.

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6.3.203.2

tapaḥ kṛtvā suvipulamṛṣibhiḥ sthāpitaḥ śivaḥ .
tathā koṭīśvarī devī cāmuṇḍā mahiṣārdinī .. 203.2 ..

Having performed immense austerity, Śiva was installed by the seers, / as well as the goddess Koṭīśvarī, Cāmuṇḍā the crusher of Mahiṣa.

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6.3.203.3

kṛṣṇapakṣe caturdaśyāṃ māsi bhādrapade nṛpa .
tīrthakoṭīḥ samāhūya munibhiḥ sthāpitaḥ śivaḥ .. 203.3 ..

On the fourteenth day in the dark fortnight in the month of Bhādrapada, O king, / having summoned ten million sacred fords, Śiva was installed by the sages.

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6.3.203.4

tasyāṃ tithau ca hastarkṣaṃ sarvapāpapraṇāśanam .
tatra tīrthe tadā gatvā snānaṃ kṛtvā samāhitaḥ .. 203.4 ..

And on that lunar day, the lunar mansion Hasta destroys all sins. / Having gone to that sacred ford at that time and performed ritual ablution with a concentrated mind, 203.4

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6.3.203.5

narakāduddharatyāśu puruṣānekaviṃśatim .
tilodakapradānena kimuta śrāddhado naraḥ .. 203.5 ..

a man quickly delivers twenty-one ancestors from hell / by offering water with sesame seeds—what then of one who offers a śrāddha? 203.5

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6.3.203.6

snānaṃ dānaṃ japo homaḥ svādhyāyo devatārcanam .
tasya tīrthasya yogena sarvaṃ koṭiguṇaṃ bhavet .. 203.6 ..

Ritual ablution, gifting, recitation of mantras, fire oblation, Vedic study, and worship of the deities— / by connection with that sacred ford, everything becomes multiplied ten million times. 203.6

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6.3.203.6_2

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe koṭitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma tryuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the two hundred and third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Koṭitīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of Śrī Skanda consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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