Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 196

English (machine translation) 196

Language: English

196.6 — 2 parts

196.1

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then, O lord of the earth, one should go to the unsurpassed Haṃsatīrtha, / where a goose (haṃsa), having performed austerities, became the mount of Brahmā.

196.2

A man, having bathed at Haṃsatīrtha and given a gift of gold, / completely freed from all sins, goes to the world of Brahmā,

196.3

in a vehicle yoked with geese, radiant as the morning sun, / supplied with all desires, being served by hosts of apsarases.

196.4

Having enjoyed there according to desire all pleasures as wished, / returning again to human form, he would indeed be born remembering past lives.

196.5

He would cast off the body through renunciation [and] attain liberation, O Bhārata.

196.6

This fruit of Haṃsatīrtha has been told to you, O Pārtha, / which removes all sin, is holy, and destroys all suffering.

|| Thus ends the one hundred ninety-sixth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glorification of Haṃsatīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses composed by Skanda

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RKV Chapter 197

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