Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 121

English (machine translation) 121

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121.26 — 1 part

121.1

Mārkaṇḍeya said: / 'Next, O ruler of the earth, one should go from there to Candrahāsa, / where the moon-king, the best of gods, attained supreme perfection.'

121.2

Yudhiṣṭhira said: / 'How did Somanātha, the lord of the universe, attain supreme perfection? / I wish to hear all that; tell me, O sinless one.'

121.3

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Formerly, O descendant of Bharata, cursed by Dakṣa, the foremost of sages, / [saying]: 'From not attending upon wives, you will become afflicted with wasting disease.'

121.4

Hear, O lord of men, the ultimate fate that befalls men / who do not attend to their wedded wives:

121.5

A son is indeed born from attending to women during every fertile period; / and from a son come heaven and liberation—thus has it been declared in revelation.

121.6

Bound by the duty appropriate to that time, [if he fails,] he falls into the Raurava hell; / the wicked man drinks her menstrual blood for an appointed time.

121.7

Then, descending in the course of time, into whatever womb he enters, / in that very womb that evil-minded one is always born wretched.

121.8

For passion in women is always excessive; / especially at the time of their fertile season, they are tormented by the arrows of Kāma.

121.9

Disregarded by their lawful husband, women think of another husband; / then a son is born who wanders from his noble family.

121.10

Because of him, his ancestors and grandfathers dwelling in heaven / fall as soon as he is born; therefore he is called an unchaste woman's son.

121.11

Through that ripening of his action, the Moon became afflicted with consumption; / leaving the world of the lords of gods, he came to the mortal world.

121.12

Then, wandering through many pilgrimage places and sacred sanctuaries, / he reached the Narmadā, which destroys all sins.

121.13

Observing fasting, gifts, vows, and religious observances / for twelve years, he was thereupon freed from his sins.

121.14

Having bathed Mahādeva, the destroyer of all sins, / he, filled with radiance, went to the unsurpassed world.

121.15

For as many years as the God installed by him is worshipped, / for that many thousands of years he is honored in the world of Rudra.

121.16

Because of that, men establish gods on earth according to the prescribed rules, / since people thereby enjoy an imperishable and undecaying duration.

121.17

A person who bathes at Somatīrtha and worships the God Īśvara / shines in the world, pleasant to behold like the Moon.

121.18

Moreover, whoever goes to Candrahāsa during an eclipse of the moon or sun / and performs a sacred bath with devotion is freed from all sins.

121.19

Whatever bathing or gift, auspicious or inauspicious, is performed there at Candrahāsa, / O best of noble kings, all of it becomes imperishable.

121.20

They are fortunate, they are great-souled, their birth and life are well-lived— / those people who, having bathed at Candrahāsa, witness an eclipse.

121.21

Whatever sin committed in the past—verbal, mental, or born of bodily action— / is destroyed merely by bathing at that pilgrimage place, O king of kings.

121.22

Many do not know it, endowed as they are with great delusion, / just as [they do not know] the one residing in the body of all, who has the form of supreme bliss.

121.23

Whatever fruit is attained by going to Somatīrtha at the western ocean, / one obtains that entire fruit at Candrahāsa; of this there is no doubt.

121.24

At the passage of the sun [into a new sign], during a Vyatīpāta, at a solstice, and at an equinox, / a man who bathes at Candrahāsa is freed from all sins.

121.25

They are fools, they are of evil conduct, their birth is utterly useless— / those who do not know Candrahāsa situated upon the Revā.

121.26

Whatever twice-born man enters renunciation at Candrahāsa, / his destination is non-returning from the world of Soma; there is no doubt.

Thus ends the one hundred twenty-first chapter, titled 'Description of the Glorification of the Soma Pilgrimage Place', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses.

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