[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt) › 14.49 # Skandapurana 14.49 English (machine translation) 14.49 - **Language:** English ### [14.49.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.1) Pulastya said: / Then one should go to Rāmatīrtha, sacred and resorted to by seers; / for a mortal who has bathed there, destruction of sin occurs, ### [14.49.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.2) and supreme satisfaction of the ancestors until the dissolution of all beings. / Formerly, there was Rāma the Bhārgava, the best of all weapon-bearers. ### [14.49.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.3) Earlier, desiring the destruction of his enemies, he performed austerity; / then He gave him the supreme weapon named Pāśupata. ### [14.49.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.4) Pleased with his austerity after three hundred years had passed, / Mahādeva said, “I am a giver of boons,” and he chose the destruction of his enemies. ### [14.49.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.5) Then He gave him the supreme weapon named Pāśupata, / by the mere remembrance of which the destruction of enemies occurs. ### [14.49.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.6) And smiling, the bull-bannered \[god\] spoke these words: / “O son of Jamadagni, mighty-armed one, hear my supreme words! ### [14.49.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.7) Endowed with this weapon, you will be unconquerable by all embodied beings / without a doubt, through my grace, O scion of Bhṛgu. ### [14.49.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.8) This holy pool, renowned in the three worlds of moving and unmoving beings / as Rāmatīrtha, will come to be through my grace. ### [14.49.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.9) Those who, being concentrated in mind, perform an ancestral rite here on the full moon day / when the month of Kārttika arrives in conjunction with the Kṛttikā constellation, ### [14.49.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.10) will receive the complete fruit of an ancestral sacrifice, / as well as the destruction of enemies, O king, and imperishable residence in the heavens.” ### [14.49.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.11) Pulastya said: / Having spoken thus, Mahādeva then vanished from sight. / Rāma, too, pained by grief for his father, slaughtered the kṣatriyas. ### [14.49.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.12) Extremely delighted, he offered libations to his ancestors twenty-one times there. / When Jamadagni died, that great-souled one made a vow, ### [14.49.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.13) having seen, O ruler of men, twenty-one wounds on his mother's body, / inflicted by weapons, when an assembly of brahmins had gathered: ### [14.49.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.14) “Since my father, an ascetic twice-born, was slain by kṣatriyas / even as he was not fighting, therefore, having made ### [14.49.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.15) the earth devoid of kṣatriyas twenty-one times, I will offer water to my father.” / All that came to pass for him, O king, by the power of the sacred ford. ### [14.49.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.16) Therefore, one should perform an ancestral rite there with every effort, / especially a kṣatriya who desires the destruction of enemies. ### [14.49.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49.49) Thus ends the forty-ninth chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of the Rāmatīrtha,’ in the Arbudakhaṇḍa, the third \[part\] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, the seventh \[book\] of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. ## Linked texts (1) - [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.49.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.49) · Pramāṇa