Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 31

English (machine translation) 31

Language: English

31.10 — 2 parts

31.1

Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O king of kings, to the pilgrimage place renowned in the three worlds, / famous as Brahmāvarta, which destroys all sins.

31.2

There Brahmā is present, constantly attending it, O Yudhiṣṭhira; / with arms raised, without support, he constantly wandered.

31.3

Living on a single meal, the observer of great vows remained for twelve years / at this pilgrimage place according to the rules, meditating upon Maheśvara.

31.4

By him it was declared holy as Brahmāvarta, O lord. / Having bathed there according to rule, one should offer libations to the ancestors and the deities.

31.5

One should worship the god Īśāna or Viṣṇu, the supreme lord. / The fruit that comes from all sacrifices duly performed with sacrificial fees,

31.6

that fruit one attains through the power of that pilgrimage place. / At whichever pilgrimage place whichever god, dānava, or twice-born

31.7

attains perfection, by his very name it becomes famous and great in the world. / Indeed, neither water, nor land, nor holy site, nor barren soils

31.8

attain sanctity without the human effort of men. / Through capability, resolve, and fortitude, men attain perfection, O king.

31.9

Through negligence [and] through greed for it, they surely fall into hell.

31.10

Wherever a sage may dwell having restrained the multitude of senses, / there is Kurukṣetra, Naimiṣa, and Puṣkara.

|| Thus ends the thirty-first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glorification of Brahmāvartatīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa.

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RKV Chapter 32

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Revākhaṇḍa (Vāyupurāṇa) — Sanskrit