[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) › 6.3.23 # Skandapurana 6.3.23 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.23 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.23.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.p1) adhyāya 23 > Chapter 23 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.1) mārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tatraiva saṅgame rājanbhaktyā paramayā nṛpa . prāṇāṃstyajanti ye martyāste yānti paramāṃ gatim .. 23.1 .. > Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Right at that confluence, O king, with supreme devotion, / mortals who abandon their life-breaths go to the supreme state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.2) saṃnyastasarvasaṃkalpo yastu prāṇānparityajet . amareśvaramāsādya sa svarge niyataṃ vaset .. 23.2 .. > One who renounces all desires and abandons his life-breaths, / having reached Amareśvara, shall dwell forever in heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.3) śailendraṃ yaḥ samāsādya ātmānaṃ muñcate naraḥ . vimānenārkavarṇena sa gacchedamarāvatīm .. 23.3 .. > A man who approaches the lord of mountains and releases himself / goes to Amarāvatī in an aerial chariot resembling the sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.4) naraṃ patantamālokya nagādamarakaṇṭakāt . bruvantyapsarasaḥ sarvā mama bhartā bhavediti .. 23.4 .. > Beholding a man falling from Mount Amarakaṇṭaka, / all the apsarases say, "May he become my husband!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.5) samaṃ jalaṃ dharmavido vadanti sārasvataṃ gāṅgamiti prabuddhāḥ . tasyopariṣṭātpravadanti tajjñā revājalaṃ nātra vicāraṇāsti .. 23.5 .. > Those who know dharma say that the water belonging to Sarasvatī and the water of Gaṅgā are equal, so say the enlightened; / those who know proclaim that the water of Revā is superior to that—there is no doubt about this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.6) anekavidyādharakinnarādyairadhyāsitaṃ puṇyatamādhivāsaiḥ . revājalaṃ dhārayato hi mūrdhnā sthānaṃ surendrādhipateḥ samīpe .. 23.6 .. > Inhabited by numerous vidyādharas, kinnaras, and others with most sacred abodes, / for one who carries the water of Revā on his head, his place is near the sovereign of the gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.7) narmadā sarvadā sevyā bahunoktena kiṃ nṛpa . yadīcchenna punardraṣṭuṃ ghoraṃ saṃsārasāgaram .. 23.7 .. > The Narmadā is always to be resorted to; what is the use of speaking much, O king, / if one wishes not to see again the terrible ocean of cyclic existence? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.8) trayāṇāmapi lokānāṃ mahatī pāvanī smṛtā . yatra tatra mṛtasyāpi dhruvaṃ gāṇeśvarī gatiḥ .. 23.8 .. > She is remembered as the great purifier of all three worlds. / Wherever one dies \[on her banks\], a state among the attendants of Śiva is certain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.9) anekayajñāyatanairvṛtāṅgī na hyatra kiṃcidyadatīrthamasti . tasyāstu tīre bhavatā yaduktaṃ tapasvino vāpyatapasvino vā .. 23.9 .. > Her body is surrounded by numerous sacrificial sanctuaries; indeed, there is nothing here that is not a sacred ford. / As for what was said by you regarding her bank, whether ascetics or non-ascetics, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.10) mriyanti ye pāpakṛto manuṣyāste svargamāyānti yathā'marendrāḥ .. 23.10 .. > men who die, even if they have committed sins, go to heaven like the lords of the immortals. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.11) evaṃ tu kapilā caiva viśalyā rājasattama . īśvareṇa purā sṛṣṭā lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā .. 23.11 .. > In this way both the Kapilā and the Viśalyā, O best of kings, / were created in ancient times by Īśvara out of a desire for the welfare of the worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.12) tatra snātvā naro rājansopavāso jitendriyaḥ . aśvamedhasya mahato'saṃśayaṃ phalamāpnuyāt .. 23.12 .. > Having bathed there, O king, fasting and having restrained his senses, / a man without doubt obtains the fruit of the great horse sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.13) anāśakaṃ ca yaḥ kuryāttasmiṃstīrthe narādhipa . sarvapāpavinirmukto yāti vai śivamandiram .. 23.13 .. > And whoever undertakes a fast unto death at that sacred ford, O ruler of men, / freed from all sins, goes indeed to Śiva's abode. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.14) pṛthivyāṃ sāgarāntāyāṃ snānadānena yatphalam . viśalyāsaṅgame snātvā sakṛttatphalamaśnute .. 23.14 .. > Whatever fruit is attained by bathing and giving gifts on the earth up to the ocean, / one obtains that fruit merely by bathing once at the confluence of the Viśalyā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.15) evaṃ puṇyā pavitrā ca kathitā tava bhūpate . bhūyo māṃ pṛcchasi ca yattaccaiva kathayāmyaham .. 23.15 .. > Thus has this sacred and purifying \[stream\] been told to you, O lord of the earth. / Whatever you ask me further, that too I shall relate. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.23.15\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23.15_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe viśalyāsaṅgamamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma trayoviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the twenty-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Viśalyā Confluence', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, the fifth \[part\] of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.23.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.23.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.23) · Pramāṇa