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# Skandapurana 6.3.25

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.25

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.25.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.25.p1)

adhyāya 25

> Chapter 25  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.25.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
oṃkārātpūrvabhāge vai saṅgamo lokaviśrutaḥ .  
revayā saṃgatā yatra nīlagaṅgā nṛpottama .. 25.1 ..

> Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / To the east of Oṃkāra is a confluence renowned throughout the world, / where the Nīlagaṅgā joins the Revā, O best of kings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.25.2)

tatra snātvā japitvā ca ko'rtho'labhyo bhavedbhuvi .  
ṣaṣṭirvarṣasahasrāṇi nīlakaṇṭhapure vaset .. 25.2 ..

> Having bathed and chanted there, what goal on earth could remain unattainable? / One will dwell in the city of Nīlakaṇṭha for sixty thousand years.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.25.3)

tarpayitvā pitṝñśrāddhe tilamiśrairjalairapi .  
uddharedātmanā sārdhaṃ puruṣānekaviṃśatim .. 25.3 ..

> Having gratified the ancestors in a śrāddha with waters mixed with sesame seeds, / one elevates twenty-one generations of men along with oneself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.25.3\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.25.3_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe narmadāmāhātmye nīlagaṅgāyāḥ saṅgamamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the twenty-fifth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Confluence of the Nīlagaṅgā', in the Narmadāmāhātmya of 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.6.3.25.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.25.1) — Sanskrit

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