[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) › 6.3.79 # Skandapurana 6.3.79 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.79 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.79.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.79.7\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.79.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.79.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.79) · Pramāṇa