Skandapurana 14.50
English (machine translation) 14.50
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Pulastya said: / Then one should go to Koṭitīrtha, which destroys all sins, / where ten million sacred fords gathered with ease, O king.
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When the terrible Kali age falls upon the surface of the earth, O king, / all people become barbarians; from contact with them, sacred fords are polluted.
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Of the thirty-five million sacred fords abiding on earth, / ten million of them then dwelt on the mountain named Arbuda,
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ten million at Puṣkara, O king, and at Kurukṣetra, / and five million at Vārāṇasī, praised by the gods together with Indra. / O king, all the gods together with Indra protect them.
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Whenever, afflicted by fear from contact with barbarians on all sides, / the sacred fords quickly abide in these aforesaid places,
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exactly three groups of ten million sacred fords, / along with five million, have emerged there on the earth, removing all sins.
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Therefore, one should take a ritual ablution there with every effort, / especially on the thirteenth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Nabhasya.
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Whatever ritual ablution and the like, recitation and fire-offering and the like are done there, / all becomes multiplied ten millionfold, O king, by its grace, without a doubt.
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Thus ends the fiftieth chapter, titled ‘Description of the Power of Koṭitīrtha,’ in the Arbudakhaṇḍa, the third [part] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, the seventh [book] of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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- Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit