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# Skandapurana 6.3.43

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.43

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.43.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.p1)

adhyāya 43

> Chapter 43  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchettu rājendra vimaleśvaramuttamam .  
tatra devaśilā ramyā svayaṃ devairvinirmitā .. 43.1 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / "Then one should go, O king of kings, to the supreme Vimaleśvara; / there is a charming divine rock, fashioned by the gods themselves.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.2)

tatra snātvā tu yo bhaktyā brāhmaṇānpūjayennṛpa .  
svalpenāpi hi dānena tasya cānto na vidyate .. 43.2 ..

> Whoever bathes there with devotion and honors brahmins, O king, / there is no end to \[the fruit of\] his gift, even if it be very small."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.3)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
kāni dānāni viprendra śastāni dharaṇītale .  
yāni dattvā naro bhaktyā mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ .. 43.3 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said: / "Which gifts are commended on the surface of the earth, O foremost of brahmins, / by giving which with devotion a person is freed from all sins?"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.4)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
suvarṇaṃ rajataṃ tāmraṃ maṇimauktikameva ca .  
bhūmidānaṃ ca godānaṃ mocayatpaśubhānnaram .. 43.4 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / "Gold, silver, copper, as well as gems and pearls, / the gift of land, and the gift of cows liberate a man from bestial existence.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.5)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ kaścitkurute prāṇasaṃkṣayam .  
rudraloke vasettāvadyāvadā bhūtasamplavam .. 43.5 ..

> Whoever causes the end of his life's breaths at that sacred ford / dwells in the realm of Rudra until the dissolution of beings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.6)

tataḥ puṣkariṇīṃ gacchetsarvapāpakṣayaṃkarīm .  
tatra snātvārcayeddevaṃ tejorāśiṃ divākaram .. 43.6 ..

> Then one should proceed to the Puṣkariṇī that causes the destruction of all sins; / having bathed there, one should worship the god, the sun, a mass of radiance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.7)

ṛcamekāṃ japetsāmnaḥ sāmavedaphalaṃ labhet .  
yajurvedasya japanādṛgvedasya tathaiva ca .. 43.7 ..

> Reciting a single verse of the Sāman, one gains the fruit of the Sāmaveda, / and likewise from reciting a verse of the Yajurveda and the Ṛgveda."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.8)

akṣaraṃ vā japenmantraṃ dhyāyamāno divākaram .  
ādityahṛdayaṃ japtvā mucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ .. 43.8 ..

> Or, meditating upon the sun, he should chant the monosyllable mantra;  
> reciting the Ādityahṛdaya, he is freed from all sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.9)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā vidhinā japeddvijān .  
tasya koṭiguṇaṃ puṇyaṃ jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 43.9 ..

> Whoever bathes in that sacred ford and duly prays for the twice-born,  
> his merit becomes ten millionfold; there is no doubt in this.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.10)

anāśakenāgnigatyā jale vā dehapātanāt .  
tasmiṃstīrthe mṛto yastu sa yāti paramāṃ gatim .. 43.10 ..

> By fasting, by entering fire, or by casting off the body into water,  
> he who dies at that sacred ford attains the supreme destination.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.11)

brāhmaṇaḥ kṣatriyo vaiśyaḥ śūdro vā nṛpasattama .  
vihitaṃ karma kurvāṇaḥ sa gacchetparamāṃ gatim .. 43.11 ..

> A brahmin, a kṣatriya, a vaiśya, or a śūdra, O best of kings,  
> performing his ordained duty, shall go to the supreme destination.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.12)

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca -  
vyādhiṃ sattvakṣayaṃ mohaṃ jñātvā varṇā dvijottama .  
pāpebhyo vipramucyante kena tatsādhanaṃ vada .. 43.12 ..

> Yudhiṣṭhira said:  
> Recognising illness, loss of strength, and delusion, O best of the twice-born,  
> by what means are the castes freed from sins? Tell \[me\] that.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.13)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tilodakī tilasnāyī kāmakrodhavivarjitaḥ .  
brāhmaṇo'naśanaiḥ prāṇāṃstyajallabhati sadgatim .. 43.13 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Offering sesamum water, bathing with sesamum, free from desire and anger,  
> a brahmin relinquishing his life breaths through fasting attains a good destination.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.14)

saṅgrāme sadgatiṃ tāta kṣatriyo nidhane labhet .  
tadabhāvānmahāprājña sevamāno labhediti .. 43.14 ..

> In battle, dear child, a kṣatriya attains a good destination at his death;  
> in its absence, O wise one, he attains it through devoted service.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.15)

vyādhigrahagṛhīto vā vṛddho vā vikalendriyaḥ .  
ātmānaṃ dāhayitvāgnau vidhinā sadgatiṃ labhet .. 43.15 ..

> Or if seized by disease or evil planets, or old, or with impaired senses,  
> he attains a good destination by duly having himself consumed in fire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.16)

vaiśyo'pi hi tyajanprāṇānevaṃ vai śubhabhāgbhavet .  
jale vā śuddhabhāvena tyaktvā prāṇāñchivo bhavet .. 43.16 ..

> Even a vaiśya, relinquishing his life breaths in this manner, indeed shares in good fortune;  
> or giving up his life breaths in water with a pure mind, he becomes Śiva.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.17)

śūdro'pi dvijaśuśrūṣustoṣayitvā maheśvaram .  
vimucya nānyathā pāpaḥ patate narake dhruvam .. 43.17 ..

> Even a śūdra, intent on serving the twice-born, having pleased Maheśvara,  
> and having freed himself \[from sin, attains it\]; otherwise, sinful, he falls inevitably into hell.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.18)

athavā praṇavāśakto dvijebhyo gurave tathā .  
pañcāgnau śoṣayeddehamāpṛcchya dvijasattamān .. 43.18 ..

> Or, unable to recite the praṇava, having asked the best of the twice-born,  
> he may desiccate his body in the five fires for the twice-born and the guru.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.19)

śāntadāntajitakrodhāñchāstrayuktān vicakṣaṇān .  
teṣāṃ caivopadeśena karīṣāgniṃ prasādhayet .. 43.19 ..

> \[Asking\] those who are calm, self-restrained, who have conquered anger, learned in scripture, and discerning,  
> by their instruction he should prepare a fire of dried cow-dung.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.20)

evaṃ varṇā yathātvena mūḍhāhaṅkāramohitāḥ .  
patanti narake ghore yathāndho girigahvare .. 43.20 ..

> Thus the castes, foolish and deluded by egoism, failing to act properly,  
> fall into terrible hell, like a blind man into a mountain chasm.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.21)

ye śāstravidhimutsṛjya vartante kāmacārataḥ .  
kṛmiyoniṃ prapadyante teṣāṃ piṇḍo na ca kriyā .. 43.21 ..

> Those who abandon the scriptural injunction and act according to their own desire,  
> reach the womb of worms; for them there is neither funeral cake nor rite.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.22)

śrutismṛtyuditaṃ dharmaṃ tyaktvā yathecchācārasevinaḥ .  
aṣṭāviṃśatirvai koṭyo narakāṇāṃ yudhiṣṭhira .. 43.22 ..

> Abandoning the duty taught in the Śruti and Smṛti, indulging in wilful conduct—  
> there are twenty-eight crores of hells, O Yudhiṣṭhira.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.23)

pratyekaṃ vā patantyete magnā narakasāgare .  
durlabhaṃ mānuṣaṃ janma bahudharmārjitaṃ nṛpa .. 43.23 ..

> One by one these \[sinners\] fall, submerged in the ocean of hell.  
> Human birth is hard to attain, acquired through much virtue, O king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.24)

tallabdhvā madamātsaryaṃ yo vai tyajati mānavaḥ .  
saṃniyamya sadātmānaṃ jñānacakṣurnaro hi saḥ .. 43.24 ..

> The man who, having attained it, gives up pride and malice,  
> always restraining himself, is indeed a man whose eye is knowledge.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.25)

ajñānatimirāndhasya jñānāṃjanaśalākayā .. 43.25 ..

> For him who is blinded by the darkness of ignorance, if with the collyrium-probe of knowledge  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.26)

yasya nonmīlitaṃ cakṣurjñeyo jātyandha eva saḥ .  
etatte kathitaṃ sarvaṃ yatpṛṣṭaṃ nṛpasattama .. 43.26 ..

> the eye is not opened, he should be known as blind from birth.  
> All this has been told to you as asked, O best of kings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.27)

tathāniṣṭatarāṇāṃ hi rudrasya vacanaṃ yathā .  
narmadā saritāṃ śreṣṭhā rudradehādviniḥsṛtā .. 43.27 ..

> So too, for those who are most undesirable, according to Rudra's word:  
> the Narmadā, the best of rivers, came forth from Rudra's body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.28)

tārayetsarvabhūtāni sthāvarāṇi carāṇi ca .  
sarvadevādhidevena īśvareṇa mahātmanā .. 43.28 ..

> She carries across all beings, unmoving and moving.  
> By Īśvara, the great-souled supreme god of all gods,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.29)

lokānāṃ ca hitārthāya mahāpuṇyāvatāritā .  
mānasaṃ vācikaṃ pāpaṃ snānānnaśyati karmajam .. 43.29 ..

> for the welfare of the worlds, she was brought down, very holy;  
> sin born of action—mental and verbal—is destroyed by bathing \[in her\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.30)

rudradehādviniṣkrāntā tena puṇyatamā hi sā .  
prātarutthāya yo nityaṃ bhūmimākramya bhaktitaḥ .. 43.30 ..

> She came forth from Rudra's body; therefore she is most holy.  
> Waking at dawn, whoever, stepping on the ground with devotion,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.31)

etanmantraṃ japettāta snānasya labhate phalam .  
namaḥ puṇyajale devi namaḥ sāgaragāmini .. 43.31 ..

> should chant this mantra, dear child, obtains the fruit of bathing:  
> 'Homage to you with holy water, O goddess! Homage to you who flow to the ocean!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.32)

namo'stu pāpanirmoce namo devi varānane .. 43.32 ..

> Homage be to you who release from sin! Homage to you, O fair-faced goddess!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.33)

namo'stu te ṛṣivarasaṅghasevite namo'stu te trinayanadehaniḥsṛte .  
namo'stu te sukṛtavatāṃ sadā vare namo'stu te satatapavitrapāvani .. 43.33 ..

> Homage to you served by multitudes of excellent seers! Homage to you who issued from the body of the Three-Eyed One!  
> Homage to you, always the boon for the meritorious! Homage to you, who eternally purify the pure!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.43.33\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.43.33_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe vimaleśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma tricatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the forty-third chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of the Sacred Ford Vimaleśvara, 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.6.3.43.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.43.1) — Sanskrit

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