Skandapurana 14.17

English (machine translation) 14.17

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Pulastya said: / Then one should go to the Paṅgutīrtha, which destroys all sins, / where formerly austerity was performed by the lame brahmin.

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Formerly, a twice-born named Paṅgu was born in the lineage of Cyavana; / he was unable to walk on the ground due to his lameness, O best of kings.

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Once assigned to household chores by his relatives, O king, / that lame man, unable to walk, attained supreme grief.

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Then, abandoned by them, having gone to Mount Arbuda / and reached a lake, he performed severe austerity.

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Having installed a liṅga right there, he worshipped that all-pervading Lord / with fragrances, flowers, food offerings, and the like, endowed with complete faith.

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He became devoted to the worship of Śiva and lived on air alone; / that best of the twice-born named Paṅgu was constantly devoted to recitation and oblations.

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Then Mahādeva, pleased with the brahmin, O best of kings, / spoke this word to Paṅgu, O great king:

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Īśvara said: / 'O Paṅgu, Mahādeva is pleased; choose a boon, O you of noble vows! / I will grant you everything, even if it should be exceedingly difficult to obtain.'

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Paṅgu said: / 'O Lord of gods, let this sacred ford become famous by my name. / Let my lameness depart here by your grace, O Śaṃkara!

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And may your presence here be eternal, along with your wife.' / Being spoken to in this way by him, he then addressed these words to the brahmin:

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Īśvara said: / 'O best of the twice-born, this sacred ford shall be named after you. / By the power of your austerity, O excellent one, the sacred ford shall attain renown.

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Likewise, on the fourteenth day of the bright half of Caitra, my presence shall be [here].'

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Pulastya said: / By mere ritual ablution, that brahmin attained a divine form; / Mahādeva, Maheśvara, remained there along with Gaurī.

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On that day, O best of kings, one should perform ritual ablution there; / freed from lameness, he will obtain a divine form.

Thus ends the seventeenth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Paṅgutīrtha,' in the third Arbuda Section of the seventh Prabhāsa Section, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit