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Skandapurana 6.3.79

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.79

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6.3.79.1

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
tato gacchettu rājendra tīrthadvayamanuttamam .
dadhiskandaṃ madhuskandaṃ sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 79.1 ..

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O best of kings, to the two incomparable sacred fords, / Dadhiskanda and Madhuskanda, which bring about the destruction of all sins. // 79.1

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6.3.79.2

dadhiskande naraḥ snātvā yastu dadyāddvije dadhi .
upatiṣṭhettatastasya saptajanmani bhārata .. 79.2 ..

A man who bathes at Dadhiskanda and gives curds to a brahmin— / it shall attend him for seven births, O Bhārata. // 79.2

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6.3.79.3

na vyādhirna jarā tasya na śoko naiva matsaraḥ .
daśacandraśataṃ yāvajjāyate vimale kule .. 79.3 ..

He has neither disease nor old age, neither sorrow nor envy. / He is born in a spotless family for as long as a thousand months. // 79.3

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6.3.79.4

madhuskande'pi madhunā miśritānyastilāndadet .
nāsau vaivasvataṃ devaṃ paśyedvai janmasaptatim .. 79.4 ..

At Madhuskanda also, he who gives sesame seeds mixed with honey / does not see the god born of Vivasvat for seventy births. // 79.4

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6.3.79.5

madhunā saha sammiśraṃ piṇḍaṃ yastu pradāpayet .
tasya pautraprapautrebhyo dāridryaṃ naiva jāyate .. 79.5 ..

He who offers an ancestral ball of food mixed with honey— / poverty does not arise for his grandsons or great-grandsons. // 79.5

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6.3.79.6

dadhibhiḥ saha saṃmiśraṃ piṇḍaṃ yastu pradāpayet .
tasmiṃstīrthe naraḥ snātvā vidhivaddakṣiṇāmukhaḥ .. 79.6 ..

A man who bathes in that sacred ford and, according to the rule, facing south, / offers an ancestral ball of food mixed with curds, // 79.6

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6.3.79.7

pitā pitāmahaścaiva tathaiva prapitāmahaḥ .
dvādaśābdāni tuṣyanti nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 79.7 ..

his father, grandfather, and likewise great-grandfather / are pleased for twelve years; about this no doubt should be entertained. // 79.7

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6.3.79.7_1

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe dadhiskandamadhuskandatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonāśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the seventy-ninth chapter, entitled the description of the māhātmya of the Dadhiskanda and Madhuskanda sacred fords, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.

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