Skandapurana 6.3.162

English (machine translation) 6.3.162

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6.3.162.1

The glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, immediately after the sacred field of the serpents, one should go to Gopeśvara, / where men are freed from sins by a single ritual ablution.

6.3.162.2

He who, having bathed at that sacred ford, brings about the end of his life, / goes to Śiva's abode, even if joined with sin.

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He who, having bathed at that sacred ford, worships the god Īśvara, / is freed from all sins and goes to the realm of Rudra.

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Having sported at will in the realm of Rudra, the performer of great austerities, / obtaining human birth here, becomes a righteous king.

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Endowed with elephants, horses, and chariots, accompanied by female and male servants, / and worshipped by rulers of men, he lives happily for a hundred years.

Thus ends the one hundred and sixty-second chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Gopeśvaratīrtha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit