Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 158

English (machine translation) 158

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158.21 — 2 parts

158.1

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go to the supreme, excellent pilgrimage place, Saṅgameśvara, / on the south bank of the Narmadā, which removes the fear of all sins.

158.2

There the Giver of Wealth rested for a moment, O best of kings, / while returning from the realm of the ancestors to Mount Kailāsa.

158.3

As proof of this, O best of kings, even today on the surface of the earth, / black stones are indeed seen shining like crystal.

158.4

Issuing from a waterfall of the Vindhya, an excellent river with holy water / enters into the water of the Narmadā, which destroys all sins.

158.5

Whoever, having bathed at that confluence, worships Saṅgameśvara, / unquestionably obtains the fruit of a horse sacrifice.

158.6

He who would present an awning, a bell, and a banner at Saṅgameśvara, / seated in an aerial chariot drawn by swans, surrounded by hundreds of divine women,

158.7

attains the realm of Rudra and becomes an attendant of Rudra. / He who would cover the liṅga of the god with boiled rice and curds,

158.8

would dwell in the world of Śiva for a desired time equal to the number of grains of rice. / And he who, having become destitute, covers the liṅga of Bhava with wood apples,

158.9

he too attains that fruit, having gone to heaven, O ruler of men; / his lineage becomes imperishable throughout seven births.

158.10

He who properly performs the bathing of the god of gods / with curds, or with honey and ghee, listen to his meritorious fruit:

158.11

Where rivers flow with ghee and milk, where trees flow with honey, / there those mortals go when Maheśvara is well pleased.

158.12

Whoever offers a leaf, a flower, a fruit, or water to Maheśvara, / enjoys the imperishable fruit of all that throughout seven lifetimes.

158.13

Maheśvara is the greatest recipient among all recipients; / therefore, with every effort, Maheśvara should be worshipped.

158.14

He who, abiding constantly in celibacy, worships Śiva, / lives in this world as a lord of gods and, upon death, goes to the realm free from disease.

158.15

When Śiva is worshipped, O Pārtha, whatever fruit is obtained by the wise, / that same fruit is obtained, O Pārtha, when the lord of yogins is worshipped.

158.16

They are fortunate, they are noble-minded, their birth has been well-lived, / in whose homes men devoted to the devotion of Śiva dine.

158.17

Wherever a sage may dwell with his senses restrained, / there, precisely there, are Kurukṣetra, Naimiṣa, and the Puṣkaras.

158.18

The fruit that arises when one hundred men learned in the Veda are fed, / that same fruit, O Pārtha, arises [by feeding] a single Śiva-yogin.

158.19

Wherever an ash-smeared one dines, whether a fool or a scholar, / there the lord of gods whose emblem is a bull dines with his wife.

158.20

The fruit obtained by feeding ten million brāhmaṇas learned in the Veda / is attained merely by giving alms to Śiva-yogins.

158.21

He who gives up his life after reaching Saṅgameśvara / never returns from the world of Śiva.

|| Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-eighth chapter, named the 'Description of the Glorification of the Pilgrimage Place of Saṅgameśvara', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Avantyakhaṇḍa, the fifth part in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a great purāṇa in eighty-one thousand verses.

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Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) Chapter 159

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