[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) › 6.3.236.44\_3 # Skandapurana 6.3.236.44\_3 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.236.44\_3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.236.44\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.236.44_3) he prabhu! mujha para prasanna hoie. maiṃ māyā se bhramita mūr̤ha āpako kaise pahacāna sakatā hūṃ. kṛpayā prasanna hoie. maiṃ apanī sāmarthya se āpakā pūjana karūṃgā. dhana jaisā pahale thā vaisā kara deṃ. maiṃ śaraṇa meṃ hūṃ. rakṣā kījie. bhaktiyukta vākyoṃ ko suna janārdana saṃtuṣṭa hue. vaiśya ko usakā manacāhā vara dekara bhagavāna aṃtardhāna hue. taba vaiśya nāva para āyā aura use dhana se bharā dekhā. satyanārāyaṇa kī kṛpā se merī manokāmanā pūrṇa huī hai, yaha kahakara sādhu vaiśya ne apane sabhī sāthiyoṃ ke sātha śrī satyanārāyaṇa kī vidhipūrvaka pūjā kī. bhagavāna satyadeva kī kṛpā prāpta kara sādhu bahuta prasanna huā. nāva calane yogya banā apane deśa kī ora cala par̤ā. apane gṛha nagara ke nikaṭa vaiśya apane dāmāda se bolā- dekho vaha merī ratnapurī hai. dhana ke rakṣaka dūta ko nagara bhejā. dūta nagara meṃ sādhu vaiśya kī strī se hātha jor̤akara ucita vākya bolā. vaiśya dāmāda ke sātha tathā bahuta-sā dhana le saṃgī-sāthī ke sātha, nagara ke nikaṭa ā gae haiṃ. dūta ke vacana suna līlāvatī bahuta prasanna huī. bhagavāna satyanārāyaṇa kī pūjā pūrṇa kara apanī beṭī se bolī. maiṃ pati ke darśana ke lie calatī hūṃ. tuma jaldī āo apanī māṃ ke vacana suna putrī ne bhī vrata samāpta mānā. prasāda lenā chor̤a apane pati ke darśanārtha cala par̤ī. bhagavāna satyanārāyaṇa isase ruṣṭa ho gae aura usake pati tathā dhana se ladī nāva ko jala meṃ ḍubā diyā . kalāvatī ne vahāṃ apane pati ko nahīṃ dekhā. use bar̤ā dukha huā aura vaha rotī huī bhūmi para gira gaī. nāva ko ḍūbatī huī dekhā. kanyā ke rudana se ḍarā huā sādhu vaiśya bolā- kyā āścarya ho gayā. nāva ke mallāha bhī ciṃtā karane lage. aba to līlāvatī bhī apanī beṭī ko dukhī dekha vyākula ho pati se bolī. isa samaya nāva sahita dāmāda kaise adṛśya ho gae haiṃ. na jāne kisa devatā ne nāva hara lī hai. prabhu satyanārāyaṇa kī mahimā kauna jāna sakatā hai. itanā kaha vaha svajanoṃ ke sātha rone lagī. phira apanī beṭī ko goda meṃ le vilāpa karane lagī. vahāṃ beṭī kalāvatī apane pati ke nahīṃ rahane para dukhī ho rahī thī. vaiśya kanyā ne pati kī khar̤āū lekara mara jāne kā vicāra kiyā. strī sahita sādhu vaiśya ne apanī beṭī kā yaha rūpa dekhā. dharmātmā sādhu vaiśya dukha se bahuta vyākula ho ciṃtā karane lagā. usane kahā ki yaha haraṇa śrī satyadeva ne kiyā hai. satya kī māyā se mohita hūṃ. > "O Lord! Be gracious unto me. Deluded by your māyā, foolish as I am, how could I recognize you? Please be gracious. I will perform your worship according to my means. Restore my wealth as it was before. I take refuge in you. Please protect me!" Hearing his words full of devotion, Janārdana became pleased. Having granted the merchant his desired boon, the Lord disappeared. Then the merchant returned to the boat and saw it filled with wealth. Saying, "By the grace of Satyanārāyaṇa my desire has been fulfilled," the merchant Sādhu properly performed the worship of Śrī Satyanārāyaṇa together with all his companions. Having attained the grace of Lord Satyadeva, Sādhu became very pleased. Making the boat fit to sail, he set out towards his own land. > Near his home city, the merchant said to his son-in-law: "Look, that is my Ratnapurī." He sent an emissary, who was the guardian of the wealth, to the city. Going into the city, the messenger folded his hands and spoke fitting words to the wife of the merchant Sādhu: "The merchant, together with his son-in-law, carrying abundant wealth, and accompanied by his associates, has arrived near the city." Hearing the messenger's words, Līlāvatī was overjoyed. Completing the worship of Lord Satyanārāyaṇa, she said to her daughter: "I am going to behold my husband; come quickly!" Hearing her mother's words, the daughter also regarded the vrata as completed. > Leaving behind the prasāda, she set out to behold her husband. Lord Satyanārāyaṇa became angered by this, and submerged in the water the boat loaded with her husband and the wealth. Kalāvatī did not see her husband there. Filled with immense grief, she fell weeping to the ground. She saw the boat sinking. Terrified by the maiden's weeping, the merchant Sādhu said: "What a marvel has happened!" The boat's boatmen also began to worry. Now Līlāvatī too, seeing her daughter distressed, became agitated and said to her husband: > "At this moment, how have the boat and our son-in-law disappeared? One knows not which deity has seized the boat! Who can know the glory of Lord Satyanārāyaṇa?" Having said this, she began to weep along with her relatives. Then, taking her daughter onto her lap, she began to lament. There the daughter Kalāvatī was grieving over the absence of her husband. The merchant's daughter resolved to die, taking her husband's sandals. Accompanied by his wife, the merchant Sādhu saw his daughter in this state. The righteous merchant Sādhu, deeply distressed by sorrow, began to reflect. He said, "This seizure has been done by Śrī Satyadeva. I am deluded by the māyā of Satya." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.3.236.44\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.236.44_2) - [Next: 6.3.236.44\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.236.44_4) - [Up: 6.3.236](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.236) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.236.44_3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.236.44_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.236.44_3) · Pramāṇa