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Skandapurana 14.55

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14.55.1

Pulastya said: / Then one should proceed, best of kings, to the meritorious and auspicious Rudrahrada, / bathing where with devotion a person attains the status of a lord of Gaṇas. // 1

14.55.2

Long ago, having slain the Daitya Andhaka, he whose banner bears a bull, together with his Gaṇas, / bathed there after creating the pool; hence it became known as Rudrahrada. // 2

14.55.3

O great king, whatever person bathes there on the fourteenth day, / his merit becomes equivalent to that arising from all sacred fords. // 3

14.55.55

Thus ends the fifty-fifth chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of Rudrahrada", in the third section, the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh book, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. // 55

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