[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Vāyupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu) › [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt) › 139 # Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 139 English (machine translation) 139 - **Language:** English ## Contents - [139.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.139.13) — 2 parts ### [139.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.139.10) Wherever a sage dwells, having restrained the collection of his senses, / there is Kurukṣetra, Naimiṣa, and the Puṣkaras. ### [139.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.139.13) Becoming a companion of Soma, he rejoices with him. ### [139.13.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.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](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.139.13.p2) RKV Chapter 140 ## Linked texts (1) - [Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda.139.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.vayu.revakhanda~en-mt.139) · Pramāṇa