Skandapurana 6.3.75

English (machine translation) 6.3.75

Language: English

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The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:
On the southern bank of the Narmadā is an exceedingly splendid sacred ford, / well known in the circle of the earth by the name of Śaṅkhacūḍa.

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Śaṅkhacūḍa himself stayed there, O son of Pāṇḍu, / through fear of Garuḍa, O son of Pṛthā, on the delight-giving bank of the Narmadā.

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Whoever, having become pure and concentrated in mind, with devotion at that sacred ford / bathes Śaṅkhacūḍa with milk, honey, and clarified butter,

should keep a night vigil before the god, O ruler of men. / Having honoured with curd and boiled rice brahmins of praised vows, / this best of twice-borns, upon the gift of a cow, effects the destruction of all sins.

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Whoever, O son of Pṛthā, makes water offerings at that sacred ford for one bitten by a snake, / goes to the supreme realm, according to the word of Śaṅkara.

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Thus ends the seventy-fifth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Śaṅkhacūḍa Tīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit