Skandapurana 6.3.87

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The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O protector of the earth, one should go to the exceedingly beautiful sacred ford / which was established by assemblies of sages born of the lineage of Brahmā.

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[He should go] to the one named Ṛṇamocana, situated on the bank of the Revā. / A man who for six months, with devotion, offers oblations to the ancestors and gods,

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is immediately freed, as a mortal, once bathed in the water of the Narmadā, / from debts owed to gods, ancestors, and humans, as well as from those incurred by himself.

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There sin is visibly seen through the nature of its fruit. / But whoever at that sacred ford, O king, with single-minded focus and senses restrained,

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having bathed, makes gifts and worships the husband of the mountain's daughter, / is liberated from the three debts and shines in heaven like a god.

Thus ends the eighty-seventh chapter, titled 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford Ṛṇatrayamocana', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit