Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 197

English (machine translation) 197

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197.11 — 2 parts

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Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately after that, one should go to the unsurpassed Sūryatīrtha, / famous as Mūlasthāna, auspicious, established by the lotus-born [Brahmā].

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The goddess was told by Mūlaśrīpati: 'Install Bhāskara.' / Hearing the god's word, the goddess installed Bhāskara.

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He is called the Bhāskara of the name Mūlasthāna on the bank of the Narmadā.

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A man who bathes at that pilgrimage place with a controlled mind, / and satisfies the ancestors and the gods with funeral rice balls and water,

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and then beholds Mūlasthāna, goes to the supreme state. / A special [rule] there, more secret than the secret, was heard by me

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in an assembly of sages from Śaṅkara, the moon-crested god. / When indeed always on the bright seventh lunar day the nakṣatra is Mūla and the day is Sunday,

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then, having gone to the water of the Revā, bathed, and gratified the deities / and ancestors, O best of the Bharatas, and given a gift according to one's means;

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then having gone there with oleanders and red-sandalwood water, / properly installing Bhāskara with devotion and worshiping [him] according to rule;

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then with agallochum incenses, and especially with frankincense, / one should incense the lord of the gods of gods, kindling lamps in the ten directions.

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Having fasted, one should keep a vigil, especially with songs and musical instruments. / When this is done, O protector of the earth, he does not partake in terrible grief;

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he dwells in the world of the Sun for as long as three hundred kalpas, / being served by gandharvas and apsarases, O best of kings.

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

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RKV Chapter 198

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