Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 199

English (machine translation) 199

Language: English

199.14 — 2 parts

199.1

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately following that, O king, is the excellent Āśvina Tīrtha, / granting the wishes of all pilgrimage places and bestowing perfection upon living beings.

199.2

At that pilgrimage place, the two gods the Aśvins, handsome and foremost among physicians, / having performed immense ascetic penance, became recipients of sacrificial shares.

199.3

Honored by all the gods, both sons of the sun, / the Nāsatyas, endowed with virtue, are best among destroyers of all suffering.

199.4

Yudhiṣṭhira said: / For what reason, dear father, were the Nāsatyas born as the sons of the sun? / I wish to hear the definitive truth, O twice-born one.

199.5

Mārkaṇḍeya said: / In the Bhāskarapurāṇa, dear friend, this was heard by me in detail / concerning the god of gods, the great-souled Mārtaṇḍa.

199.6

I will tell all that to you in brief, since you are full of devotion, O Bhārata, / without doubt, though I am emaciated by old age.

199.7

Having seen the excessive brilliance of Ravi, the queen and goddess, O best of men, / roamed the forest around Meru as a mare, practicing severe penance.

199.8

Then, after a certain time had passed, the blessed Ravi, / having seen her, abandoned his supreme, blazing splendor,

199.9

and, overcome by love, became a swiftly-galloping stallion. / While she was running hither and thither, quivering with all her might,

199.10

he, neighing aloud, approached her for union. / But then the goddess, turning round swiftly to face him,

199.11

somehow received that supreme seed into her nostrils; / and from that seed entering her nose, an excellent embryo was formed.

199.12

Because they were born thence, O Pārtha, the two sons were renowned as the Nāsatyas. / Well-matched and with shapely limbs, they appeared like two reflected images from a single disk,

surpassing all the gods, endowed with beauty and lordliness. / Resorting to the bank of the Narmadā, both went to Bhṛgukaccha / and, having performed austerities extremely hard to practice, attained supreme perfection.

199.14

The person who bathes at that pilgrimage place and offers water to the ancestors and gods, / O Pārtha, is born handsome and fortunate wherever he is.

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Thus ends the one hundred ninety-ninth chapter, called 'The Glorification of the Āśvina Tīrtha,' in the Revā Section of the Avantī Section, in the eighty-one-thousand-verse collection of the great and glorious Skandapurāṇa.

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RKV Chapter 200

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Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit