Skandapurana 6.3.201

English (machine translation) 6.3.201

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6.3.201.1

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king, to the unsurpassed Devatīrtha, / where the illustrious gods together with Indra attained perfection, O Yudhiṣṭhira.

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Bathing, giving, recitation, oblation, personal Vedic study, and worship of deities / performed there attains endlessness through the power of the sacred ford.

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Especially on the thirteenth day in the dark fortnight of Bhādrapada, / the foremost of all sacred fords was occupied by the gods of old.

Having bathed on the thirteenth day, having performed the śrāddha according to rule, / and having fully worshipped the bull-bannered god installed by the gods, / freed from all sins, he would attain the world of Rudra.

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Thus ends the two hundred and first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Devatīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [part], the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit