Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 12
English (machine translation) 12
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- 12.18 — 2 parts
12.1
The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Having heard this speech, O king, the ṛṣis were delighted;
with folded hands, the twice-born began to praise the Narmadā:
12.2
“Salutations to you of holy waters! Salutations to you who ride the makara!
Salutations to you, the deliverer from sin! Salutations, O goddess of beautiful face!
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Salutations to you, auspicious refuge of holy waters, of pure essence, served by gods and siddhas!
Salutations to you, attended upon by hosts of pilgrimage places! Salutations to you, the excellent one born from Rudra’s body!
12.4
Salutations to you, O goddess who go to the ocean! Salutations to you, O goddess who grant boons, auspicious one!
Salutations to you who bestow happiness in both worlds, who are resorted to by multitudes of various beings, faultless one!
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O best of rivers, remover of sins, variegated one whose body is served by gandharvas, yakṣas, and serpents!
Eternal one, compassionate to hosts of living beings, giver of liberation, O goddess, grant us welfare!
12.6
O goddess served by great elephants, buffaloes, and boars, adorned with a garland of great waves!
We are all bowed to you, O giver of boons, giver of happiness; release us from the bondage of the fetters of individual souls!
12.7
Bound by numerous inauspicious sins, mortals wander in hells
only as long as they do not touch your water turned to waves generated by the mighty wind.”
12.8
For those afflicted with fear by a flood of various sorrows, surrounded by manifold sins, / and encircled by diverse pairs of opposites, you are the refuge, O lotus-faced one!
12.9
Even rivers become purified and spotless upon reaching you, O goddess, there is no doubt about this; / you grant fearlessness to those distressed by grief, and you are worshipped by manifold virtuous men.
12.10
Touched by the rays of the moon and the sun, it grants the highest abode at that very moment; / where even stones submerged in your holy water attain the nature of Śiva, what is strange about this?
12.11
Mortals, distressed by sorrow, their bodies encompassed by sin, wander in hells / only so long as they do not take refuge in your water, whose rippling waves are raised by mighty winds.
12.12
Even barbarians, Pulindas, and demons who drink your holy water, O goddess, / are surely liberated here from terrible fear; what is strange about this?
12.13
Lakes and rivers have gone to destruction in this terrible, corrupted Kali age; / yet you shine, O goddess, full of floods of water, like the Gaṅgā in heaven along the path of constellations.
12.14
By your grace, O granter of boons, O most excellent one, having weathered this time, / may we then go to Rudra through your gracious favour; so grant your favour!
12.15
You are the refuge like a mother, like a father to his sons; protect us through this end of the age, / so that we may cross this very terrible time, struck by drought, through your gracious favour!
12.16
Those foremost twice-born who recite this hymn, and those serene men who listen to it, / go to Rudra upon a chariot drawn by a bull, adorned with divine garments.
12.17
Those who constantly recite this hymn after bathing in the water of the Narmadā, / to them this best of rivers swiftly grants a pure destiny at the end.
12.18
He who, having risen in the morning, or while lying down, proclaims this hymn every day, / freed from sin, with a thoroughly purified body, goes to the abode of Maheśvara.
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|| Thus ends the twelfth chapter, named the Recitation of the Narmadā Hymn, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the glorious Narmadā Māhātmya, in the fifth Avantīkhaṇḍa, in the Skandapurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses.
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RKV Chapter 13
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- Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit