Skandapurana 6.3.82

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Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the unexcelled Vahnitīrtha,
where the Fire, endowed with great splendor, attained perfection after performing tapas.

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He who was formerly cursed by a sage in Daṇḍaka to be an eater of all things
became purified by resorting to the bank of the Narmadā.

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Whoever bathes at that sacred ford, worships Maheśvara,
and enters the fire, attains equality with the Fire.

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Whoever bathes there with devotion and gratifies the ancestors and gods
obtains without doubt the fruit of an Agniṣṭoma sacrifice.

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Immediately following it, O king, is the excellent Kaubera Tīrtha,
where formerly Kubera, the lord of the yakṣas, attained complete perfection.

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A person who bathes at that sacred ford and worships the Teacher of the World
together with Umā with devotion, is freed from all sins.

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Whoever bathes at that sacred ford, stands in navel-deep water,
and gives gold to a brahmin, obtains a hundred millionfold reward.

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The fruit that exists at Dadhiskanda, Madhuskanda, Nandīśa, the abode of Varuṇa,
and the fire-ford, dear one—one obtains all that fruit by bathing [here].

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They are praiseworthy in the world of men, blessed, and have their desires fulfilled,
by whom the group of five sacred fords of the Narmadā, endowed with great merit, has been visited.

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They go to the world of the Sun, supreme and destroying suffering;
from the world of the Sun to the world of Īśvara, and from that of Īśvara to the realm of no return.

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He is carried to that supreme world for as long as fourteen Indras rule.
Then, fallen from heaven, that mortal becomes a righteous king.

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Freed from all diseases, he rules over the moving and unmoving world.
For those who serve the sacred fords of the Narmadā and have Viṣṇu as their deity,

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their power becomes unbroken; of this there is no doubt.
The Gaṅgā is sacred at Kanakhala, the Sarasvatī at Kurukṣetra,

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but whether in a village or in a forest, the Narmadā is sacred everywhere.
One should dwell constantly on the bank of the Revā and always drink the water of the Revā.

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He has bathed in all the sacred fords and drinks soma day after day.
All rivers beginning with the Gaṅgā, the oceans, and the lakes
perish at the end of an aeon; therefore the Narmadā is immortal.

Thus ends the eighty-second chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Five Sacred Fords Beginning with Dadhiskanda', 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