Skandapurana 14.6

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Pulastya said: / Then one should go, O best of kings, to Vasiṣṭha, a treasure of austerities, / by seeing whom a person attains complete fulfillment.

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There is a pool full of water, which removes sins from mortals. / In that pool, O best of kings, by the noble Vasiṣṭha,

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the Gomatī was brought down through austerity, O best of kings. / A man who has bathed there is completely freed from sins.

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One who performs a śrāddha there with wild grain, O king, / rescues all his ancestors in both lineages.

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Here a verse was formerly sung by the great-souled Nārada: / 'Having bathed there in the sacred water and having seen that best of sages,

what is the use of offering a śrāddha at Gayā? What is the use of other elaborate sacrifices? / A man who, having reached Vasiṣṭha's hermitage, performs a śrāddha, / rescues all his ancestors along with himself, O best of kings.'

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Right there, near Vasiṣṭha, the virtuous Arundhatī / is to be especially worshipped; she grants all desires to mortals.

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Whatever sin was committed in childhood, in old age, or in youth, / instantly perishes for men upon the darśana of Vasiṣṭha.

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One who with concentrated mind offers a lamp in front of Vasiṣṭha / becomes endowed with happiness and good fortune, full of splendor.

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One devoted to fasting who spends a single night there / goes to the supreme abode where the immaculate Seven Seers dwell.

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One who, with concentrated mind, undertakes a three-night fast in front of Vasiṣṭha / goes to Maharloka, free from old age and death.

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And one who performs a month-long fast in front of Vasiṣṭha, / he also attains liberation and does not go to the ocean of mundane existence.

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One who, with concentrated mind, offers libations to the seer / on the full moon day of the bright fortnight of Śrāvaṇa, goes to the world of Brahmā.

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One who recites the Gāyatrī a hundred and eight times before Vasiṣṭha / is instantly freed from sin from birth unto death.

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If one worships Vāmadeva there with faith, / a person instantly attains the fruit of an Agniṣṭoma sacrifice, O king.

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Therefore, that great sage should be seen with every effort. / Endowed with faith and purified, they will go to the supreme state.

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Therefore, with all one's heart, O king, one should worship Vāmadeva.

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Thus ends the sixth chapter, titled "Description of the Māhātmya of Vasiṣṭha's Hermitage," in the third Arbudakhaṇḍa of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit