Skandapurana 7.13.3_75

7.13.3_75

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Rising up with speed towards them, O best of seers,
he swiftly descended from the peak and stood among them.
Then, delighted, meeting together fully with Hari,
they endowed that peak of the mountain with a reward:
‘Because Hari shone here as stainless as the moon
by means of great austerity, therefore this Lord of Mountains
shall be known as Hariścandra; of this there is no doubt.
And because a descent was made here by one who is not ordinary,
therefore let this precipice become holy in the world in every way.’
O lords of gods, whichever man, coming here, casts himself from this cliff,
shall go to Hari's exceedingly radiant world.
A person afflicted with disease, [even if] tainted by the great sins,
who gives up his life-breaths here, is also freed from great terror.
Whatever a man continually prays for here at the precipice,
all that he swiftly obtains—so it is declared.
Sanatkumāra said:
The knower of dharma who reads or listens to this [account of] Hariścandra and Puriścandra
destroys all his sin.
And whatever man, pure and free from malice, always reads this in an assembly of twice-born and gods,
he, stainless, blazing with brilliance like the sun, dwells in heaven like an immortal, foremost among them.
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-second chapter, titled ‘Description of Mount Hariścandra’, in the Skandapurāṇa.