Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 132

English (machine translation) 132

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132.13 — 2 parts

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Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king of kings, to the northern bank of the Narmadā, / to the pilgrimage place named Vārāha, which removes all sins.

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There the god who supports the universe assumed the form of a boar / and stayed for the welfare of the world, carrying across the ocean of worldly existence.

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Whoever, having bathed at that pilgrimage place, worships the bearer of the earth / with special perfumes and garlands and auspicious cries of victory and the like,

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devoted to fasting on the twelfth [lunar day], O best of kings— / outcastes of sinful deeds, and likewise the blind Piśācas:

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since sin is transmitted by conversation, bodily contact, / breath, and eating together, one should therefore avoid them.

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One should worship the brahmins with devotion, according to one's capacity and according to the rules; / one should keep a vigil at night there during sacred discourse, O descendant of Bharata.

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Having bathed at clear dawn at that pilgrimage place, those who, / having conquered anger, behold the spiritual teacher of the universe are freed from all sins.

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Just as serpents, having shed their fierce fiery poison, perish upon seeing Suparṇa, / even so sins quickly perish upon seeing the face of him who has the form of a boar.

And just as darkness in the sky perishes upon seeing the sun, the best of gods, / even so sins that are very difficult to overcome perish upon seeing the face of the bearer of the earth, O son of Pṛthā.

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What is the use of many mantras to one whose devotion is to Janārdana? / The mantra, "Homage to Nārāyaṇa," accomplishes all aims.

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Even a single bow made to Kṛṣṇa is equal to the concluding bath of ten horse sacrifices; / the performer of ten horse sacrifices returns to birth again, [but] one who bows to Kṛṣṇa does not return to rebirth.

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Those great souls with controlled senses who meditate on the form of Hari as Nārāyaṇa / and abandon their own body at that pilgrimage place,

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go to the spotless abode, difficult even for gods to obtain, / freed from the perishable and imperishable: that supreme abode of Viṣṇu.

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|| Thus ends the one hundred thirty-second chapter, named the description of the glorification of the pilgrimage place of Ādivārāha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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RKV Chapter 133

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Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit