Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 139
English (machine translation) 139
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- 139.13 — 2 parts
139.1
The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O great king, to the unsurpassed Somatīrtha, / where Soma, having performed ascetic penance, entered upon the path of the constellations.
139.2
Whoever bathes in that pilgrimage place, performs sipping of water according to rule, / finishes his recitation, and meditates on Ravi—hear the fruit of his religious merit!
139.3
Whatever fruit is declared for someone reciting the Ṛgveda, the Yajurveda, / and the Sāmaveda, O Bhārata, that very fruit is attained here through the Gāyatrī.
139.4
Whoever, being pure, feeds Brāhmaṇas with devotion at that pilgrimage place, / ten million [Brāhmaṇas] are properly fed by him according to that rule.
139.5
Whoever gives wooden slippers, shoes, an umbrella, / garments, a blanket, and horses to an eminent Brāhmaṇa—his [gift] is equal to ten million.
139.6
If one feeds a thousand thousands of those who do not know the Ṛc verses, / it is not worth a sixteenth part of [feeding] a single one possessed of mantras.
139.7
One should thus feed there a master of the Ṛgveda who has mastered the Veda, / versed in a recension, or an Adhvaryu priest, or a Chāndoga who has completed his study.
139.8
Whatever fruit of a thousand Agnihotra sacrifices is obtained by the wise, / that same fruit is obtained at Somatīrtha through [feeding] a knower of the Veda.
139.9
A man who feeds a hundred of them obtains [the fruit of feeding] a thousand; / wise poets know that this is the fruit of [feeding] a single one devoted to yoga.
139.10
Wherever a sage dwells, having restrained the collection of his senses, / there is Kurukṣetra, Naimiṣa, and the Puṣkaras.
139.11
Therefore, with every effort, during an eclipse of the moon or sun, / at a solar transit (saṃkrānti) and at a vyatīpāta, a yogin especially should be fed.
139.12
Whoever renounces the world at that pilgrimage place, O Yudhiṣṭhira,
that person goes to heaven in a celestial chariot, O fortunate one.
139.13
Becoming a companion of Soma, he rejoices with him.
139.13.p1
|| Thus ends the one hundred and thirty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glorification of Somatīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
139.13.p2
RKV Chapter 140
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