Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 104

English (machine translation) 104

Language: English

104.8 — 2 parts

104.1

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king, to the excellent Sauvarṇaśila, / famous on the northern bank, causing the destruction of all sins,

104.2

created of old by hosts of sages by the falling of umbrellas all around, / a place on the Revā that is difficult to attain, near the confluence,

104.3

divided into a holy field of merely a cubit's span, O ruler of men. / Having bathed at Suvarṇaśilaka and worshipped Maheśvara,

104.4

and having bowed to the god Bhāskara, an oblation should be poured into the sacrificial fire, / with bilva mixed with ghee, or else with bilva leaves, [praying:]

104.5

'May the Lord of the universe be pleased with me; may my disease surely perish!' / Listen from me to the fruit gained when gold is given to a twice-born:

104.6

Whatever excellent fruit is proclaimed for a sacrifice of abundant gold, / all that is obtained by him who offers gold.

104.7

Purified in soul by that gift, he reaches heaven upon dying, / [and remains] an attendant of Rudra as long as the fourteen Indras rule.

104.8

Then, descending from heaven, he is born into a pure family, / endowed with wealth and grain, and remembers that water again.

|| Thus ends the one hundred and fourth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glorification of the Suvarṇaśilā Pilgrimage Place', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].

104.8.p2

RKV Chapter 105

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Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit