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# Skandapurana 6.3.82

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.82

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.82.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.p1)

adhyāya 82

> Chapter 82  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchenmahīpāla vahnitīrthamanuttamam .  
yatra siddho mahātejāstapaḥ kṛtvā hutāśanaḥ .. 82.1 ..

> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:  
> Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the unexcelled Vahnitīrtha,  
> where the Fire, endowed with great splendor, attained perfection after performing tapas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.2)

sarvabhakṣyaḥ kṛto yo'sau daṇḍake muninā purā .  
narmadātaṭamāśritya pūto jāto hutāśanaḥ .. 82.2 ..

> He who was formerly cursed by a sage in Daṇḍaka to be an eater of all things  
> became purified by resorting to the bank of the Narmadā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.3)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā pūjayitvā maheśvaram .  
agnipraveśaṃ kurute sa gacchedagnisāmyatām .. 82.3 ..

> Whoever bathes at that sacred ford, worships Maheśvara,  
> and enters the fire, attains equality with the Fire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.4)

bhaktyā snātvā tu yastatra tarpayetpitṛdevatāḥ .  
agniṣṭomasya yajñasya phalamāpnotyasaṃśayam .. 82.4 ..

> Whoever bathes there with devotion and gratifies the ancestors and gods  
> obtains without doubt the fruit of an Agniṣṭoma sacrifice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.5)

tasyaivānantaraṃ rājankauberaṃ tīrthamuttamam .  
kubero yatra saṃsiddho yakṣāṇāmadhipaḥ purā .. 82.5 ..

> Immediately following it, O king, is the excellent Kaubera Tīrtha,  
> where formerly Kubera, the lord of the yakṣas, attained complete perfection.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.6)

tatra tīrthe naraḥ snātvā samabhyarcya jagadgurum .  
umayā sahitaṃ bhaktyā sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate .. 82.6 ..

> A person who bathes at that sacred ford and worships the Teacher of the World  
> together with Umā with devotion, is freed from all sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.7)

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā dadyādviprāya kāṃcanam .  
nābhimātre jale tiṣṭhansa labhetārbudaṃ phalam .. 82.7 ..

> Whoever bathes at that sacred ford, stands in navel-deep water,  
> and gives gold to a brahmin, obtains a hundred millionfold reward.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.8)

dadhiskande madhuskande nandīśe varuṇālaye .  
āgneye yatphalaṃ tāta snātvā tatphalamāpnuyāt .. 82.8 ..

> The fruit that exists at Dadhiskanda, Madhuskanda, Nandīśa, the abode of Varuṇa,  
> and the fire-ford, dear one—one obtains all that fruit by bathing \[here\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.9)

te vandyā mānuṣe loke dhanyāḥ pūrṇamanorathāḥ .  
yaistu dṛṣṭaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ narmadātīrthapañcakam .. 82.9 ..

> They are praiseworthy in the world of men, blessed, and have their desires fulfilled,  
> by whom the group of five sacred fords of the Narmadā, endowed with great merit, has been visited.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.10)

te yānti bhāskare loke parame duḥkhanāśane .  
bhāskarādaiśvare loke caiśvarādanivartake .. 82.10 ..

> They go to the world of the Sun, supreme and destroying suffering;  
> from the world of the Sun to the world of Īśvara, and from that of Īśvara to the realm of no return.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.11)

nīyate sa pare loke yāvadindrāścaturdaśa .  
tataḥ svargāccyuto martyo rājā bhavati dhārmikaḥ .. 82.11 ..

> He is carried to that supreme world for as long as fourteen Indras rule.  
> Then, fallen from heaven, that mortal becomes a righteous king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.12)

sarvarogavinirmukto bhunakti sacarācaram .  
viṣṇuśca devatā yeṣāṃ narmadātīrthasevinām .. 82.12 ..

> Freed from all diseases, he rules over the moving and unmoving world.  
> For those who serve the sacred fords of the Narmadā and have Viṣṇu as their deity,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.13)

akhaṇḍitapratāpāste jāyante nātra saṃśayaḥ .  
gaṅgā kanakhale puṇyā kurukṣetre sarasvatī .. 82.13 ..

> their power becomes unbroken; of this there is no doubt.  
> The Gaṅgā is sacred at Kanakhala, the Sarasvatī at Kurukṣetra,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.14)

grāme vā yadi vāraṇye puṇyā sarvatra narmadā .  
revātīre vasennityaṃ revātoyaṃ sadā pibet .. 82.14 ..

> but whether in a village or in a forest, the Narmadā is sacred everywhere.  
> One should dwell constantly on the bank of the Revā and always drink the water of the Revā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.15)

sa snātaḥ sarvatīrtheṣu somapānaṃ dine dine .  
gaṅgādyāḥ saritaḥ sarvāḥ samudrāśca sarāṃsi ca .  
kalpānte saṃkṣayaṃ yānti na mṛtā tena narmadā .. 82.15 ..

> He has bathed in all the sacred fords and drinks soma day after day.  
> All rivers beginning with the Gaṅgā, the oceans, and the lakes  
> perish at the end of an aeon; therefore the Narmadā is immortal.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.82.15\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.82.15_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe dadhiskandādipañcatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma dvyaśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the eighty-second chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Five Sacred Fords Beginning with Dadhiskanda', 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.6.3.82.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.82.1) — Sanskrit

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