[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) › 6.3.59 # Skandapurana 6.3.59 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.59 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.59.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.p1) adhyāya 59 > Chapter 59 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.1) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tataḥ puṣkariṇīṃ gacchetsarvapāpapraṇāśinīm . śrute yasyāḥ prabhāve tu sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate .. 59.1 .. > The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go to Puṣkariṇī, which destroys all sins, / by merely hearing whose efficacy one is freed from all sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.2) revāyā uttare kūle tīrthaṃ paramaśobhanam . yatrāste sarvadā devo vedamūrtirdivākaraḥ .. 59.2 .. > On the northern bank of the Revā is an exceedingly splendid sacred ford, / where the sun god, the embodiment of the Vedas, dwells forever. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.3) kurukṣetraṃ yathā puṇyaṃ sārvakāmikamuttamam . idaṃ tīrthaṃ tathā puṇyaṃ sarvakāmaphalapradam .. 59.3 .. > Just as Kurukṣetra is sacred, supreme, and granting all desires, / so is this sacred ford holy, granting the fruit of every wish. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.4) kurukṣetre yathā vṛddhirdānasya jagatīpate . puṣkariṇyāṃ tathā dānaṃ vardhate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 59.4 .. > Just as a gift increases at Kurukṣetra, O lord of the earth, / so does a gift multiply at Puṣkariṇī; of this there is no doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.5) yavamekaṃ tu yo dadyātsauvarṇaṃ mastake nṛpa . puṣkariṇyāṃ tathā sthānaṃ yathā sthānaṃ nare smṛtam .. 59.5 .. > Whatever person gives a single barley-corn of gold upon his head, O king, / at Puṣkariṇī, thus is remembered a dwelling for that man. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.6) sūryagrahe tu yaḥ snātvā dadyāddānaṃ yathāvidhi . hastyaśvaratharatnādi gṛhaṃ gāśca yugaṃdharān .. 59.6 .. > He who, having bathed during a solar eclipse, gives a gift according to the rules— / elephants, horses, chariots, jewels and the like, a house, cattle, and beasts of burden, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.7) suvarṇaṃ rajataṃ vāpi brāhmaṇebhyo dadāti yaḥ . trayodaśa dinaṃ yāvattrayodaśaguṇaṃ bhavet .. 59.7 .. > or who gives gold or silver to brahmins, / for thirteen days it bears thirteen-fold fruit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.8) tilamiśreṇa toyena tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ . dvādaśābde bhavetprītistatra tīrthe mahīpate .. 59.8 .. > One should gratify the ancestors and deities with water mixed with sesame seeds; / the satisfaction \[of the ancestors\] lasts for twelve years at that sacred ford, O king. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.9) yastatra kurute śrāddhaṃ pāyasairmadhusarpiṣā . śrāddhado labhate svargaṃ pitḥṇāṃ dattamakṣayam .. 59.9 .. > Whoever performs a śrāddha there with milk rice, honey, and clarified butter, / the performer of the śrāddha attains heaven, and what was given to the ancestors becomes inexhaustible. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.10) akṣatairbadarairbilvairiṅgudairvā tilaiḥ saha . akṣayaṃ phalamāpnoti tasmiṃstīrthe na saṃśayaḥ .. 59.10 .. > With unhusked grains, jujube fruits, bilva fruits, or ingudas along with sesame seeds, / one obtains imperishable fruit at that sacred ford, without doubt. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.11) tatra snātvā tu yo devaṃ pūjayecca divākaram . ādityahṛdayaṃ japtvā punarādityamarcayet . sa gacchetparamaṃ lokaṃ tridaśairapi vanditam .. 59.11 .. > Having bathed there, whoever worships the sun god, / having recited the Ādityahṛdaya and worshipped the sun once more, / goes to the supreme world praised even by the gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.12) ṛcamekāṃ japedyastu yajurvā sāma eva ca . sa samagrasya vedasya phalamāpnoti vai nṛpa .. 59.12 .. > Whoever recites a single ṛc, yajus, or sāman verse, / he obtains the fruit of the entire Veda, O king. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.13) yastryakṣaraṃ japenmantraṃ dhyāyamāno divākaram . ādityahṛdayaṃ japtvā mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ .. 59.13 .. > Whoever recites the three-syllable mantra, meditating on the sun, / having recited the Ādityahṛdaya, is freed from all sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.14) yastatra vidhivatprāṇāṃstyajate nṛpasattama . sa gacchetparamaṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo divākaraḥ .. 59.14 .. > Whoever gives up his life-breaths there according to the rules, O best of kings, / goes to that supreme realm where the sun god dwells. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.59.14\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59.14_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe puṣkariṇyāmādityatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the fifty-ninth chapter, named 'The Description of the Greatness of the Āditya Sacred Ford at Puṣkariṇī', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth \[section\], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the great Purāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.59.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.59.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.59) · Pramāṇa