[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) › 6.3.34 # Skandapurana 6.3.34 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.34 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.34.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.p1) adhyāya 34 > Chapter 34 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.1) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tatraiva tu bhavedanyadādityasya mahātmanaḥ . kīrtayāmi naraśreṣṭha yadi te śravaṇe matiḥ .. 34.1 .. > The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / 'Right there, however, is another \[sacred ford\] of the great-souled Āditya. / I shall proclaim it, O best among men, if your mind is inclined to hear.' / 34.1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.2) yudhiṣṭhira uvāca - etadāścaryamatulaṃ śrutvā tava mukhodgatam . vismayāddhṛṣṭaromāhaṃ jāto'smi munisattama .. 34.2 .. > Yudhiṣṭhira said: / 'Having heard this matchless wonder coming from your mouth, / my hair has stood on end with amazement, O best of sages.' / 34.2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.3) sahasrakiraṇo devo hartā kartā nirañjanaḥ . avatāreṇa lokānāmuddhartā narmadātaṭe .. 34.3 .. > 'The thousand-rayed god, the destroyer, creator, and spotless one, / by his descent became the uplifter of the worlds on the bank of the Narmadā.' / 34.3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.4) puruṣākāro bhagavānutāho tapasaḥ phalāt . kasya gotre samutpannaḥ kasya devo'bhavadvaśī .. 34.4 .. > 'Did the Lord assume a human form, or \[did this happen\] by the fruit of austerity? / In whose lineage was he born, and under whose sway was the god brought?' / 34.4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.5) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - kulikānvayasambhūto brāhmaṇo bhaktimāñchuciḥ . īkṣyāmīti raviṃ tatra tīrthe yātrākṛtodyamaḥ .. 34.5 .. > The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / 'A pure brahmin endowed with devotion, born in the lineage of Kulika, / resolved to make a pilgrimage to that sacred ford, thinking, "I shall behold the sun."' / 34.5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.6) yojanānāṃ śataṃ sāgraṃ nirāhāro gatodakaḥ . prasthito devadevena svapnānte vāritaḥ kila .. 34.6 .. > 'Having set out for over a hundred yojanas, fasting and without water, / he was indeed restrained at the end of a dream by the god of gods:' / 34.6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.7) bhobho mune mahāsattva alaṃ te vratamīdṛśam . sarvaṃ vyāpya sthitaṃ paśya sthāvaraṃ jaṅgamaṃ ca mām .. 34.7 .. > '"O sage of great resolve, enough of such an observance for you! / Behold me pervading all that is unmoving and moving."' / 34.7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.8) tapāmyahaṃ tato varṣaṃ nigṛhṇāmyutsṛjāmi ca . na mṛ(bhṛ?)taṃ caiva mṛtyuṃ ca yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati .. 34.8 .. > '"I radiate heat; then I bring rain; I withhold and I release. / Whoever sees \[me\], sees neither death nor dissolution."' / 34.8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.9) varaṃ varaya bhadraṃ tvamātmano yastavepsitam .. 34.9 .. > '"Choose a boon, auspicious one, whatever you desire for yourself."' / 34.9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.10) brāhmaṇa uvāca - yadi tuṣṭo'si me deva deyo yadi varo mama . uttare narmadākūle sadā saṃnihito bhava .. 34.10 .. > The brahmin said: / 'If you are pleased with me, O god, if a boon is to be given to me, / remain ever present on the northern bank of the Narmadā.' / 34.10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.11) ye bhaktyā parayā deva yojanānāṃ śate sthitāḥ . smariṣyanti jitātmānasteṣāṃ tvaṃ varado bhava .. 34.11 .. > 'Be the giver of boons to those self-controlled ones who, standing a hundred yojanas away, / remember you with supreme devotion, O god.' / 34.11 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.12) kubjāndhabadhirā mūkā ye kecidvikalendriyāḥ . tava pādau namasyanti teṣāṃ tvaṃ varado bhava .. 34.12 .. > 'To those who are hunchbacked, blind, deaf, mute, or have any defective faculties, / who bow before your feet, be the giver of boons.' / 34.12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.13) śīrṇaghrāṇā gatadhiyo hyasthicarmāvaśeṣitāḥ . teṣāṃ tvaṃ karuṇāṃ deva acireṇa kuruṣva ha .. 34.13 .. > 'To those whose noses are wasted, whose intellect is lost, and who are reduced to bone and skin— / on them, O god, quickly bestow your compassion.' / 34.13 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.14) ye'pi tvāṃ narmadātoye snātvā tatra dine dine . arcayanti jagannātha teṣāṃ tvaṃ varado bhava .. 34.14 .. > 'To those also who, having bathed there in the waters of the Narmadā day after day, / worship you, O Lord of the universe, be the giver of boons.' / 34.14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.15) prabhāte ye staviṣyanti stavairvaidikalaukikaiḥ . abhipretaṃ varaṃ deva teṣāṃ tvaṃ dada bhocyuta .. 34.15 .. > 'To those who praise you at dawn with Vedic and worldly hymns, / grant the desired boon, O god, O infallible one.' / 34.15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.16) tavāgre vapanaṃ deva kārayanti narā bhuvi . svāmiṃsteṣāṃ varo deya eṣa me paramo varaḥ .. 34.16 .. > 'To the men who perform the shaving of hair before you on earth, / O Master, a boon must be given: this is my supreme boon.' / 34.16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.17) evamastviti taṃ coktvā muniṃ karuṇayā punaḥ . śatabhāgena rājendra sthitvā cādarśanaṃ gataḥ .. 34.17 .. > Saying to that sage with compassion, 'Let it be so,' / and having remained with a hundredth part \[of himself\], O king of kings, he vanished from sight. / 34.17 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.18) tatra tīrthe naro bhaktyā gatvā snānaṃ samācaret . tarpayetpitṛdevāṃśca so'gniṣṭomaphalaṃ labhet .. 34.18 .. > A man who goes with devotion to that sacred ford and performs a bath, / and makes libations to the ancestors and the gods, obtains the fruit of an Agniṣṭoma sacrifice. / 34.18 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.19) agnipraveśaṃ yaḥ kuryāttasmiṃstīrthe narādhipa . dyotayanvai diśaḥ sarvā agnilokaṃ sa gacchati .. 34.19 .. > He who enters the fire at that sacred ford, O ruler of men, / illuminating all the quarters indeed, goes to the world of Agni. / 34.19 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.20) yastattīrthaṃ samāsādya tyajatīha kalevaram . sa gato vāruṇaṃ lokamityevaṃ śaṅkaro'bravīt .. 34.20 .. > He who, having reached that sacred ford, abandons his body here, / goes to the world of Varuṇa; thus Śaṃkara spoke. / 34.20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.21) tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ kaścitsaṃnyāsena tanuṃ tyajet . ṣaṣṭivarṣasahasrāṇi svargaloke mahīyate .. 34.21 .. > Whoever abandons his body at that sacred ford through renunciation, / is honored in the celestial world for sixty thousand years. / 34.21 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.22) apsarogaṇasaṃkīrṇe divyaśabdānunādite . uṣitvāyāti martye vai vedavedāṅgavidbhavet .. 34.22 .. > Having dwelled \[there\] filled with troops of apsarases and echoing with divine sounds, / he returns to the mortal world and becomes knower of the Vedas and the Vedāṅgas. / 34.22 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.23) vyādhiśokavinirmukto dhanakoṭipatirbhavet . putradārasamopeto jīvecca śaradaḥ śatam .. 34.23 .. > Freed from disease and sorrow, he becomes the master of tens of millions in wealth; / endowed with sons and a wife, he lives for a hundred autumns. / 34.23 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.24) prātarutthāya yastatra smarate bhāskaraṃ tadā . ājanmajanitātpāpānmucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 34.24 .. > He who, having risen in the morning, then remembers the Sun there, / is freed from sin born since birth; there is no doubt in this. / 34.24 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.34.24\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34.24_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ravitīrthavarṇanaṃ nāma catustriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the thirty-fourth chapter, named 'Description of Ravitīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth \[section\], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a 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.6.3.34.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.34.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.34) · Pramāṇa