[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) › 6.3.96 # Skandapurana 6.3.96 Skandapurāṇa 6.3.96 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.3.96.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.p1) adhyāya 96 > Chapter 96 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.1) śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca - tato gacchettu rājendra tīrthaṃ koṭīśvaraṃ param . ṛṣikoṭiḥ samāyātā yatra vai kurunandana .. 96.1 .. > Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / “Then one should proceed, O king of kings, to the supreme sacred ford Koṭīśvara, / where, O joy of the Kurus, a crore of seers arrived, 96.1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.2) kṛṣṇadvaipāyanasyaiva kṣemārthaṃ munipuṃgavāḥ . mantrayitvā dvijaiḥ sarvairvedamaṅgalapāṭhakaiḥ .. 96.2 .. > for the welfare of Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana himself, O best of sages. / Having conferred with all the twice-born who recite the auspicious Vedic hymns, 96.2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.3) sthāpitaḥ śaṅkarastatra kāraṇaṃ bandhanāśanam . saṃsāracchedakaraṇaṃ prāṇināmārtināśanam .. 96.3 .. > Śaṅkara was established there as the primal cause, destroyer of bondage, / the severer of cyclic existence, destroyer of the afflictions of living beings. 96.3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.4) koṭīśvaramiti proktaṃ pṛthivyāṃ nṛpanandana . snāpayettaṃ tu yo bhaktyā pūrṇimāyāṃ nṛpottama .. 96.4 .. > It is called ‘Koṭīśvara’ on earth, O prince. / Whoever bathes him with devotion on a full-moon day, O best of kings, 96.4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.5) pitḥṇāṃ tarpaṇaṃ kṛtvā piṇḍadānaṃ yathāvidhi . śrāvaṇasya viśeṣeṇa pūrṇimāyāṃ yudhiṣṭhira .. 96.5 .. > having offered libations to the ancestors and the offering of rice-balls according to rule, / especially on the full-moon day of Śrāvaṇa, O Yudhiṣṭhira, 96.5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.6) pitḥṇāmakṣayā tṛptiryāvadābhūtasamplavam . pitḥṇāṃ paramaṃ guhyaṃ revātaṭasamāśritam . mokṣadaṃ sarvajantūnāṃ nirmitaṃ munisattamaiḥ .. 96.6 .. > the satisfaction of his ancestors is inexhaustible until the dissolution of all beings. / Established on the bank of the Revā, supreme secret of the ancestors, / it grants liberation to all living beings, constructed by the best of sages.” 96.6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [6.3.96.6\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96.6_2) .. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe koṭīśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma ṣaṇṇavatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. > Thus ends the ninety-sixth chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of the Koṭīśvara Tīrtha,’ in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.6.3.96.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.96.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.6.3.96) · Pramāṇa