Skandapurana 6.3.151

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Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / On the northern bank of the Narmadā there is a supremely splendid sacred ford / possessing the greatness of Jayavārāha, destroying all sins.

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He by whom the earth, reverenced by all the gods, was raised up / resides on the bank of the Narmadā out of a desire to show grace to the worlds.

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He who bathes in that sacred ford and beholds Madhusūdana / is freed from all sins by reciting the ten incarnations.

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The Fish, the Tortoise, and the Boar, the Man-Lion, then the Dwarf, / Rāma, Rāma, Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, and Kalki—these are the ten.

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Yudhiṣṭhira said: / What was done by the Fish, O father? What by the Tortoise, O best of sages? / And what deed was done by the Boar? What was done by the Man-Lion?

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And what was done by the Dwarf, by Rāma, and by the descendant of Raghu? / Or what by him in the form of Buddha? What was done by Kalki? Tell [me].

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Thus addressed by the wise son of Dharma, the best of brahmins / then spoke sweet words to the son of Dharma:

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Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Having become a fish formerly in the kalpa for the pleasure of Brahmā, the Lord, / lifting up the Vedas sunken in the great ocean, delivered them.

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At the churning of the nectar, O king, the guru of the universe, having become a tortoise, / supported Mandara, and likewise the goddess earth.

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Assuming the form of a boar, the god of gods, Janārdana, / lifted up the earth that had sunk down to dwell on the floor of Pātāla.

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Having made half his body that of a man and half the body that of a lion, / he tore open the chest of Hiraṇyakaśipu with the hooks of his claws.

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Assuming matted hair in the form of a dwarf, praised by the best of the twice-born, / taking on that divine form, traversing the earth with his strides,

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and subsequently making Bali a dweller on the floor of Pātāla, / Viṣṇu, having reinstated all the gods, went to his own abode.

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Becoming Rāma, the son of Jamadagni, the best of weapon-bearers, / he slew the kṣatriyas, the rulers of the earth, the Haihayas and others.

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Having given the earth with its mountains, forests, and mines to Kaśyapa, / the lord of the gods performs austerity on Mahendra even today, O descendant of Bharata.

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Then Rāma, the son of Daśaratha, having slain in battle the thorn of the gods, Rāvaṇa, / together with his retinue, and having given the kingdom to Vibhīṣaṇa,

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having protected the earth with justice and gratified the deities with sacrifices, / lotus-eyed Rāma of great splendor went to heaven.

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Again, accompanied by Saṃkarṣaṇa, the lord of the world, Vāsudeva, / descended in the house of Vasudeva, O Yudhiṣṭhira.

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Through your power he slew, for the purpose of destroying wicked kings, / Cāṇūra, Kaṃsa, Keśin, and Jarāsaṃdha, O descendant of Bharata.

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With him as your noble helper, having slain your enemies, O ruler of men, / you will enjoy the entire earth along with your brothers, gathered [under your rule].

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Likewise, Acyuta, the peaceful one, the god of the lords of gods, / the slayer of Madhu, who loves spring, will assume a ninth [form]—that of the Buddha.

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By that god, the supreme lord, in the form of the Buddha, / the entire universe, with its mobile and immobile beings, will be deluded.

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From then on, O descendant of Bharata, sons will not listen to their father, / nor relatives and pupils to their guru; topsy-turviness will come to be.

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Dharma will be overcome by adharma, and truth will be overcome by untruth; / kings will be overcome by thieves, and men will be overcome by women.

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Agnihotra offerings will falter, worship of the guru will vanish, / and the laws of Manu will deteriorate when Kali has arrived, O Yudhiṣṭhira.

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A woman will become pregnant in her twelfth or tenth year; / daughters will be born there, and the brahmin will have yellowish hair.

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Then the lord will become Kalki in his tenth incarnation.

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This has been told to you, O king: the purpose of the ten incarnations / of the supreme lord, bringing about the destruction of all sins.

Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-first chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of the Śvetavārāha Sacred Ford, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit