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# Skandapurana 6.3.81

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.81

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.81.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.p1)

adhyāya 81

> Chapter 81  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchenmahārāja varuṇeśvaramuttamam .  
yatra siddho mahādevo varuṇo nṛpasattama .. 81.1 ..

> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Then one should go, O great king, to the excellent Varuṇeśvara,  
> where, O best of kings, Varuṇa attained perfection \[through\] Mahādeva.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.2)

piṇyākaśākaparṇaiśca kṛcchracāndrāyaṇādibhiḥ .  
ārādhya girijānāthaṃ tataḥ siddhiṃ parāṃ gataḥ .. 81.2 ..

> By means of oil cake, vegetables, and leaves, and by austerities such as the Kṛcchra and Cāndrāyaṇa,  
> he worshipped the lord of the Mountain's Daughter and then attained supreme perfection.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.3)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā saṃtarpya pitṛdevatāḥ .  
pūjayecchaṅkaraṃ bhaktyā sa yāti paramāṃ gatim .. 81.3 ..

> Whoever bathes at that sacred ford, gratifies the ancestors and gods,  
> and worships Śaṃkara with devotion, goes to the supreme state.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.4)

kuṇḍikāṃ vardhanīṃ vāpi mahadvā jalabhājanam .  
annena sahitaṃ pārtha tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 81.4 ..

> Hear the meritorious fruit, O son of Pṛthā, of giving a small water-pot, a pitcher,  
> or a large water vessel together with food.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.5)

yatphalaṃ labhate martyaḥ satre dvādaśavārṣike .  
tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 81.5 ..

> The fruit that a mortal obtains at a twelve-year sacrificial session—  
> he obtains that very fruit; no doubt should be entertained here.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.6)

sarveṣāmeva dānānāmannadānaṃ paraṃ smṛtam .  
sadyaḥ prītikaraṃ toyamannaṃ ca nṛpasattama .. 81.6 ..

> The gift of food is considered the highest of all gifts;  
> water and food bring immediate delight, O best of kings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.7)

tatratīrthe mṛtānāṃ tu narāṇāṃ bhāvitātmanām .  
varuṇasya pure vāso yāvadābhūtasaṃplavam .. 81.7 ..

> For men of purified minds who die at that sacred ford,  
> their dwelling is in the city of Varuṇa until the universal dissolution.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.8)

paścātpūrṇe tataḥ kāle martyaloke prajāyate .  
annadānaprado nityaṃ jīvedvarṣaśataṃ naraḥ .. 81.8 ..

> Afterward, when that time is complete, he is born in the world of mortals;  
> always bestowing gifts of food, that man lives for a hundred years.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.81.8\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.81.8_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe varuṇeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikāśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the eighty-first chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Varuṇeśvara 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.6.3.81.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.81.1) — Sanskrit

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