Skandapurana 6.3.140

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Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O great king, to the unsurpassed Nandāhrada, / where the illustrious goddess Nandā, bestower of boons, attained perfection,

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formerly when Mahiṣāsura, of huge body, terrifying to the gods, / the foremost of Dānavas, had his limbs pierced by the spear by the Spear-bearer,

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by whom the eleven Rudras, the Ādityas together with the hosts of Maruts, / the Vasus with Vāyu, and the moon and sun, O lord of the gods,

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and by which mighty one Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Maheśvara were conquered / in a very terrible battle that caused terror to the gods.

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Because, having wrought that terrible slaughter, goddess Nandā, ruler of the gods, / the large-eyed one, bathed [there], it is therefore known as Nandāhrada.

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Whoever bathes in that sacred ford and, dedicating it to Nandā, O Bhārata, / gives a gift to brahmins, obtains the fruit of a horse sacrifice.

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Bhairava, Kedāra, Rudra, and Mahālaya: / Nandāhrada is the fourth; a fifth is difficult to obtain on earth.

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Filled with desire and passion, many do not know that / holy pool of the Narmadā which destroys all sins.

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Whoever bathes in that sacred ford and worships goddess Nandā, / what need has he of going into the midst of the Himavat?

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Not knowing the highest truth, those enveloped in darkness wander about; / in their journey, O Pārtha, there is only fatigue.

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Whatever fruit is gained on earth bounded by the oceans through bathing and giving, / that fruit a man fully attains by bathing in Nandāhrada, O king.

Thus ends the one hundred and fortieth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford of Nandāhrada', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit