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# Skandapurana 6.3.89

Skandapurāṇa 6.3.89

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.89.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.p1)

adhyāya 89

> Chapter 89  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.89.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.1)

śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -  
tato gacchettu rājendra pūtikeśvaramuttamam .  
narmadādakṣiṇe kūle sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaram .. 89.1 ..

> Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king of kings, to the excellent Pūtikeśvara / on the southern bank of the Narmadā, which brings about the destruction of all sins,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.89.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.2)

sthāpitaṃ jāmbuvantena lokānāṃ tu hitārthinā .  
rājā prasenajinnāma tasyāṃ vakṣasthalānmaṇau .. 89.2 ..

> established by Jāmbavat, who desired the welfare of the worlds. / A king named Prasenajit \[was struck\] by him on the chest for the jewel,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.89.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.3)

samutkṣipte tu tenaiva sapūtirabhavadvraṇaḥ .  
tatra tīrthe tapastaptvā nirvraṇaḥ samajāyata .. 89.3 ..

> and when it was seized, a putrid wound formed. / Having performed austerity at that sacred ford, he became free of the wound.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.89.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.4)

tena tatsthāpitaṃ liṅgaṃ pūtikeśvaramuttamam .  
yastatra manujo bhaktyā snāyādbharatasattama .. 89.4 ..

> Therefore that excellent liṅga, Pūtikeśvara, was established by him. / The man who bathes there with devotion, O best of the Bharatas,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.89.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.5)

sarvānkāmānavāpnoti sampūjya parameśvaram .  
kṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃ caturdaśyāṃ sarvakālaṃ narādhipa .  
ye'rcayanti sadā devaṃ te na yānti yamālayam .. 89.5 ..

> attains all desires after worshipping the Supreme Lord. / On the eighth and fourteenth days of the dark fortnight, at all times, O ruler of men, / those who constantly worship the god do not go to the abode of Yama.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [6.3.89.5\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.89.5_2)

.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe pūtikeśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikonanavatitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..

> Thus ends the eighty-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford Pūtikeśvara', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.89.p1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.89.1) — Sanskrit

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