Skandapurana 6.3.74

English (machine translation) 6.3.74

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6.3.74.1

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:
On the northern bank of the Revā is an exceedingly beautiful sacred ford
that removes all sin in the mortal world, named indeed Gautameśvara.

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It was established by Gautama himself, desiring the welfare of all people;
it is like a staircase to heaven for men, O Yudhiṣṭhira.

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Go there with supreme devotion, where the god, the teacher of the universe, resides,
for the destruction of sin, bestowing residence in heaven.

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It is a sacred ford that increases fortune, grants victory, and destroys sorrow;
and by a single offering of a piṇḍa, one delivers three lineages.

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Whatever is given with devotion, whether small or great,
all of that becomes a hundred-thousandfold, indeed by the command of Gautama.

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It is the supreme sacred ford among sacred fords, spoken by Rudra himself.

Thus ends the seventy-fourth chapter, titled 'Description of the Gautameśvara-tīrtha-māhātmya', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth [part, the] Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit