Skandapurana 17.5

English (machine translation) 17.5

Language: English

17.5.1

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to that situated to the west of Maṅgalā: / the current of Gaṅgā, as well as the liṅga, and Surārka in particular. // 1

One should go to them according to rule, O goddess, if one desires the fruit of pilgrimage; / having bathed, one should properly offer rice balls there, / and abundant food with fees should be given to brahmins. // 2

17.5.3

Thus has this auspicious [teaching] been spoken by me to you, O beloved, which destroys the mass of sins of the Kali age; / reciting this, the complete rise of the glory of the sacred ford destroys the multitude of sins. // 3

17.5.4

This, supremely destructive of sins, should not be given to one of wicked intellect; / it should be heard according to rule, in accordance with the injunction stated in the Bhaviṣya [Purāṇa]. // 4

17.5.5

Thus ends the fifth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Gaṅgeśvara,' in the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the first [sub-section of] Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the seventh part of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 5

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit