Skandapurana 6.3.96

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Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / “Then one should proceed, O king of kings, to the supreme sacred ford Koṭīśvara, / where, O joy of the Kurus, a crore of seers arrived, 96.1

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for the welfare of Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana himself, O best of sages. / Having conferred with all the twice-born who recite the auspicious Vedic hymns, 96.2

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Śaṅkara was established there as the primal cause, destroyer of bondage, / the severer of cyclic existence, destroyer of the afflictions of living beings. 96.3

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It is called ‘Koṭīśvara’ on earth, O prince. / Whoever bathes him with devotion on a full-moon day, O best of kings, 96.4

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having offered libations to the ancestors and the offering of rice-balls according to rule, / especially on the full-moon day of Śrāvaṇa, O Yudhiṣṭhira, 96.5

the satisfaction of his ancestors is inexhaustible until the dissolution of all beings. / Established on the bank of the Revā, supreme secret of the ancestors, / it grants liberation to all living beings, constructed by the best of sages.” 96.6

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Thus ends the ninety-sixth chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of the Koṭīśvara Tīrtha,’ in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantī section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit