Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 202

English (machine translation) 202

Language: English

202.7 — 2 parts

202.1

Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Immediately after it is another, the supreme Śikhitīrtha,
the foremost of all pilgrimage places, an excellent group of five shrines.

202.2

Performing austerities at that pilgrimage place for the sake of a crest,
the carrier of oblations, having obtained a crest and having become crest-bearing [Fire], installed the Śiva called Śikhin.

202.3

On the first lunar day of the bright fortnight in Āśvayuja, O king,
having then gone to that excellent pilgrimage place and bathed in the water of the Narmadā,

202.4

one should satisfy the gods, seers, ancestors, and others with water and sesame seeds;
one should give gold to a brāhmaṇa, having also propitiated the consumer of oblations.

202.5

Then one should worship Śiva with fragrances, garlands, and incense.
Having worshipped Maheśvara at Śikhitīrtha according to this rule,

202.6

by means of an aerial chariot bright as the sun, surrounded by a host of apsarases,
and praised by gandharvas, he goes to the world of Rudra.

202.7

He attains the destruction of enemies and is born radiant on the earth.

|| Thus ends the two hundred and second chapter named 'Description of the Glorification of Śikhitīrtha' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantīkhaṇḍa in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse compendium.

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RKV chapter 203

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Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit