Skandapurana 6.3.91

English (machine translation) 6.3.91

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Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O ruler of the earth, to the supremely purifying sacred ford / Caṇḍāditya, O best of kings, established by Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa.

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Formerly there were two very terrible great Daityas, Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa. / Resorting to the bank of the Narmadā, they performed extensive austerity,

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meditating upon the Sun god, who destroys darkness in the three worlds. / Pleased by their austerity, the thousand-rayed god spoke:

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"Well done, well done!" to the two, O Pārtha, on the auspicious bank of the Narmadā. / "Choose a boon, O heroes, according to your desire, whatever your mind wishes."

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Caṇḍa and Muṇḍa said: / "May we two be unconquerable by all the gods, focused in mind, / and free from all diseases at all times, O Sun!"

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"So be it!" the Sun, the stealer of water, said to them. / Having spoken thus, the Sun vanished there before the two Daityas.

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Established by them with supreme devotion, one should go to it for one's own perfection. / One should satisfy gods, humans, and ancestors there as well.

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He dwells in the world of the Sun for a day of Brahmā, O king. / And whoever lights a lamp with ghee on the sixth day, O lord of men, / is freed from all sins and goes to the city of the Sun.

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Whoever hears the origin of Caṇḍabhānu, O bull of the Bharatas, / is surely always victorious and free from mental agony and physical disease.

Thus ends the ninety-first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Caṇḍādityatīrtha', 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