Skandapurana 7.13.3_75

7.13.3_75

77 tapodhanaṃ - kha . 78 tu - kha . 79 modati - ka. kha. . 80 mṛtyurogavivarjitaḥ - ka. kha. . 81 kāmakārī - ka. . 82 devasama. - ka., sadā - kha. . 83 devatāḥ - ka. kha . 84 gacchantaṃ (?) . 85 hareḥ - ka., hariścacandre girau - kha. . 86 dhautapāpmā - kha. . 87 tameva ka kha .
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- - 88 prati tadā vegādutthāya89 ṛṣisattama90 .
śikharāt sannipatyāśu teṣāṃ madhyevatiṣṭhata91 .. 101 ..
tataste muditāḥ samyagghariṇā saha saṃgatāḥ .
śikharaṃ tad girestasya phalena92 samayojayan . .1 02 ..
yasmāddharirayaṃ93 hyatra candravannirmalo babhau .
tapasā mahatā caiva tasmādeṣocaleśvaraḥ ..1 03 ..
hariścandra iti khyāto bhaviṣyati na saṃśayaḥ .
yasmādaprakṛtenaiva prapātotra kṛtaḥ punaḥ .
tasmād bhṛgurayaṃ loke puṇyo bhavatu sarvaśaḥ . .1 04..
atra94 yobhyetya deveśā bhṛguprapatanaṃ naraḥ .
sādhayeta sa gaccheta harerlokamatiprabham . .1 05. .
mahāpātakasaṃyukto vyādhinā samupadrutaḥ .
yotra sādhayate prāṇān sopi mucyenmahābhayāt .. 1 06..
yadvā prārthayate95 nityaṃ prapāte cātra96 kiṃcana .
tatprāpnuyānnaraḥ sarvamacirāttacca97 vai smṛtam ..1 07..
sanatkumāra uvāca
hariścandramimaṃ98 yastu puriścandrantu99 dharmavit .
paṭheta śṛṇuyādvāpi sa pāpmānaṃ viśasyati . .1 08..
idaṃ tu yaḥ śuciranasūyavān100 sadā naraḥ paṭhed dvijagaṇadevasaṃsadi .
sa nirmalo raviriva tejasā jvalan triviṣṭape vasati yathāmarovaraḥ101 ..1 0 9..
iti skandapurāṇe hariścandragirivarṇano nāma dvāviṃśottaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ102

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Rising up with speed towards them, O best of seers,
he swiftly descended from the peak and stood among them.
Then, delighted, meeting together fully with Hari,
they endowed that peak of the mountain with a reward:
‘Because Hari shone here as stainless as the moon
by means of great austerity, therefore this Lord of Mountains
shall be known as Hariścandra; of this there is no doubt.
And because a descent was made here by one who is not ordinary,
therefore let this precipice become holy in the world in every way.’
O lords of gods, whichever man, coming here, casts himself from this cliff,
shall go to Hari's exceedingly radiant world.
A person afflicted with disease, [even if] tainted by the great sins,
who gives up his life-breaths here, is also freed from great terror.
Whatever a man continually prays for here at the precipice,
all that he swiftly obtains—so it is declared.
Sanatkumāra said:
The knower of dharma who reads or listens to this [account of] Hariścandra and Puriścandra
destroys all his sin.
And whatever man, pure and free from malice, always reads this in an assembly of twice-born and gods,
he, stainless, blazing with brilliance like the sun, dwells in heaven like an immortal, foremost among them.
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-second chapter, titled ‘Description of Mount Hariścandra’, in the Skandapurāṇa.