Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 100
English (machine translation) 100
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- 100.9 — 2 parts
100.1
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O protector of the earth, one should go to the exceedingly charming pilgrimage place / known as Mārkaṇḍeśa on the southern bank of the Narmadā,
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the highest of all pilgrimage places, auspicious, praised by the gods, / more secret than the secret, O son, not told to anyone by me.
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It was established formerly by me, resembling a stairway to heaven; / right there knowledge arose in me through the grace of Śaṅkara.
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Whoever else, having gone right there, recites the Drupadā verse in the water, / he is completely freed from all sins, O son of Pāṇḍu,
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from sins born of speech, of mind, or of actions. / And holding onto the pedestal, facing the southern direction,
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one should attach oneself with devotion to the Trident-bearer having thirty-two multiform aspects; / at the fall of the body, he goes to Śiva—this is my conclusion, O king.
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One should kindle a lamp with clarified butter at night on the eighth [tithi], O Bhārata; / he attains the heavenly world—thus indeed did Śaṅkara declare.
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Whoever performs a śrāddha right there with devotion, O son of the king, / his ancestors are satisfied until the destruction of all elements.
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Whoever offers libations there to his ancestors with ingudī fruits, jujubes, bilva fruits, unbroken grain, or water, / attains the fruit of life.
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|| Thus ends the one hundredth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glorification of the Mārkaṇḍeśvara Pilgrimage Place,' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Avantīkhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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RKV chapter 101
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- Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit