Skandapurana 6.3.149

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Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately after that is the sacred ford known as Liṅgeśvara, / where sin is destroyed through the darśana of the God of gods.

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Having wrought a terrible slaughter of the Dānavas, O Yudhiṣṭhira, / [Viṣṇu], assuming the form of the Boar, took up his abode on the Narmadā.

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One who takes a ritual ablution at that sacred ford and bows down to the god, / O best of kings, is freed from great sins committed in the past.

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Having fasted completely on the twelfth day of the dark fortnight and of the bright [fortnight], / one should worship the Lord of the Universe with perfumes and garlands, O son of Pāṇḍu.

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And one should worship brahmins, O fortunate one, with gifts, honor, and meals, / with supreme devotion; hear the meritorious fruit thereof:

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A living being obtains the fruit of performing a sacrificial session for twelve years; / feeding brahmins there, he obtains that very fruit.

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Having offered libations to the ancestors and gods, having bathed, with mind fixed on Him, / standing before the god, one should chant the twelve names.

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Fasting month after month on the twelfth day, O delight of the Kurus, / the wise one should always worship Keśava in the month of Mārgaśīrṣa,

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the god Nārāyaṇa in Pauṣa, Mādhava in the month of Māgha, / Govinda in the month of Phālguna, and Viṣṇu in Caitra.

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In Vaiśākha one should remember the Slayer of Madhu, in Jyeṣṭha the god Trivikrama, / Vāmana in Āṣāḍha, and Śrīdhara in Śrāvaṇa.

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Chanting Hṛṣīkeśa in Bhādrapada, Padmanābha in Āśvina, / and Dāmodara in Kārttika, one does not perish.

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Whatever sin was committed in the past through speech, mind, or action / is destroyed, beyond doubt, through the recitation of the names of the months.

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Continually driven on oneself, opening and closing the eyes, / looking about swiftly, eating, [even if] uttering [names] devoid of mantras,

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this is the remedy even for a living being fallen into the direst calamity: / reciting the monthly name of Viṣṇu, the presiding deity of the months.

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Those nights, those days, those months, and those years / are fruitful for men in which Lord Hari has been meditated upon.

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Even when he has fallen into the direst calamity, he from whose heart-lotus / the god Janārdana does not slip away is a yogin; of this there is no doubt.

Devoid of good fortune are those men, greatly to be pitied; they have descended as an incarnation only to be a burden to the earth; / they are senseless, equal to beasts—those who are devoid of devotion to the infinite Lord.

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Those men have accomplished their purpose on earth; they purify the world by the fall of their own limbs [in prostration]; / they are discerning, an ornament to the universe—those who are filled with devotion to the infinite Lord. 149.18

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He alone is virtuous; by him the fruit of the tree of birth has been attained, / in whose heart, speech, and body the god Janārdana resides. 149.19

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This is an excellent, holy sacred ford, where the eternal Janārdana became a liṅga, / having deceived his enemies in battle, [assumed the form of] the Boar. 149.20

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During an eclipse of the moon and sun, on the aṣṭakās, and during both solstices, / a restrained man should indeed offer even water mixed with sesame seeds to the ancestors here. 149.21

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May the Boar Hari bring you peace!—by whose snout the network of hollows of Mount Meru was unclosed; who was a raft for those sinking into the ocean of sorrow; / whose hooves were half-submerged in the deep mire that arose from the belly of Rasātala; whose ears were frozen, rigid in listening to the roar of the elephants of the quarters shattered by the wind blast driven by his exhalations. 149.22

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Thus ends the one hundred and forty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford of the Liṅga-Boar,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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