Skandapurana 6.3.70
Skandapurāṇa 6.3.70
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adhyāya 70
Chapter 70
6.3.70.1
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
revāyā uttare kūle tīrthaṃ paramaśobhanam .
raviṇā nirmitaṃ pārtha sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 70.1 ..
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
On the north bank of the Revā is a supremely beautiful sacred ford,
fashioned by Ravi, O son of Pṛthā, which destroys all sins.
6.3.70.2
svāṃśena bhāskarastatra tiṣṭhate cottare taṭe .
sarvavyādhiharaḥ puṃsāṃ narmadāyāṃ vyavasthitaḥ .. 70.2 ..
The sun remains there on the northern bank by his own portion;
abiding at the Narmadā, he removes all disease for men.
6.3.70.3
ṣaṣṭhyāṃṣaṣṭhyāṃ nṛpaśreṣṭha hyaṣṭamyāṃ ca caturdaśīm .
snānaṃ yaḥ kārayenmartyaḥ śrāddhaṃ preteṣu bhaktitaḥ .
tasya pāpakṣayaḥ pārtha sūryaloke mahīyate .. 70.3 ..
On every sixth, O best of kings, as well as on the eighth and the fourteenth,
whatever mortal takes a bath and performs a śrāddha for the deceased spirits with devotion,
his sin is destroyed, O son of Pṛthā, and he is honored in the world of the sun.
6.3.70.4
tataḥ svargāccyutaḥ so'pi jāyate vimale kule .
dhanāḍhyo vyādhinirmukto jīvejjanmanijanmani .. 70.4 ..
Then, having fallen from heaven, he too is born in an immaculate family;
wealthy and freed from disease, he lives birth after birth.
6.3.70.4_2
.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe ravitīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..
Thus ends the seventieth chapter, entitled "The Description of the Greatness of Ravitīrtha," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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