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# Skandapurana 6.3.77

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.77

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.77.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.p1)

adhyāya 77

> Chapter 77  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
bhīmeśvaraṃ tato gacchetsarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .  
sevitaṃ ṛṣisaṅghaiśca bhīmavratadharaiḥ śubhaiḥ .. 77.1 ..

> The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Then one should go to Bhīmeśvara, which destroys all sin,  
> resorted to by hosts of seers, auspicious practitioners of fierce vows.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.2)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā sopavāso jitendriyaḥ .  
japedekākṣaraṃ mantramūrdhvabāhurdivākare .. 77.2 ..

> At that sacred ford, having bathed, fasting and with senses subdued,  
> raising one's arms toward the sun, one should mutter the single-syllable mantra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.3)

tasya janmārjitaṃ pāpaṃ tatkṣaṇādeva naśyati .  
saptajanmārjitaṃ pāpaṃ gāyatryā naśyate dhruvam .. 77.3 ..

> The sin accumulated in his \[present\] life is destroyed that very instant. / The sin accumulated in seven lives is surely destroyed by the Gāyatrī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.4)

daśabhirjanmabhirjātaṃ śatena tu purā kṛtam .  
sahasreṇa trijanmotthaṃ gāyatrī hanti kilbiṣam .. 77.4 ..

> With ten \[recitations\] the sin incurred in ten lives is removed; with a hundred, that which was done long ago; / with a thousand, the Gāyatrī destroys the sin arising from three births.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.5)

vaidikaṃ laukikaṃ vāpi jāpyaṃ japtaṃ nareśvara .  
tatkṣaṇāddahate sarvaṃ tṛṇaṃ tu jvalano yathā .. 77.5 ..

> Whatever Vedic or worldly recitation is chanted, O lord of men, / at that moment burns all \[sins\], just as fire \[burns\] straw.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.6)

na devabalamāśritya kadācitpāpamācaret .  
ajñānānnaśyate kṣipraṃ nottaraṃ tu kadācana .. 77.6 ..

> One should never commit a sin relying upon the power of a deity. / A \[sin committed\] through ignorance is destroyed quickly, but never one committed subsequently \[with deliberation\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.7)

tatra tīrthe tu yo dānaṃ śaktimāśritya cācaret .  
tadakṣayyaphalaṃ sarvaṃ jāyate pāṇḍunandana .. 77.7 ..

> And whatever gift one gives at that sacred ford according to one's capacity, / all of that yields imperishable fruit, O son of Pāṇḍu.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.77.7\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.77.7_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe bhīmeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptasaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the seventy-seventh chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Bhīmeśvara Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth \[section\], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.77.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.77.1) — Sanskrit
- [Nityakarmavidhi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.acara.ahnika.nityakarmavidhi.2.96) — Sanskrit

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