Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 40
English (machine translation) 40
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- 40.26 — 2 parts
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The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, king of kings, to the excellent Karañjeśvara, / where the illustrious demon, renowned in the worlds, attained perfection.
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Yudhiṣṭhira said: / That great ascetic who attained perfection at that pilgrimage place, O illustrious one, / whose son was he, how did he attain perfection, and at what time? Tell me, twice-born one!
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Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Formerly in the Kṛta age, O king, there was a mind-born son of Brahmā, / who knew the true nature of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas, named Marīci by name.
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To him also, a mass of asceticism, in the course of long time, O sinless one, / a mind-born son was born, as it were a second Brahmā directly visible.
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Patience, self-control, compassion, charity, truthfulness, purity, and straightforwardness: / these qualities belonging to Marīci were also present in him, O Bhārata.
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Knowing Kaśyapa, the best of the twice-born, to be filled with such a host of virtues, / Dakṣa Prajāpati gave him his daughters to be his wives:
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Aditi, Diti, and Danu, and likewise ten others, / from whom were born sons and grandsons, O bull of the Bharatas.
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Aditi gave birth to sons led by Indra, / born to that Kaśyapa Prajāpati, O mighty-armed one,
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by whom the three worlds, both immovable and movable, were pervaded. / Likewise, of the other, of Danu, an illustrious son was born,
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endowed with all auspicious characteristics, Karañja by name. / Even as a child, O illustrious one, he performed severe austerities.
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Resorting to the bank of the Narmadā, exceedingly terrible, unsurpassable / Kṛcchra and Cāndrāyaṇa penances for a divine thousand years, O king,
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subsisting on vegetables, roots, and fruits, devoted to bathing and oblations. / Then Mahādeva, accompanied by Umā, was pleased indeed.
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The Lord, the destroyer of Tripura, invited him with a boon: / 'O Karañja of great strength, I am well-pleased with you, O sinless one!
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Choose a boon; I will grant it to you, except for immortality [which belongs only] to me.'
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Karañja said: / 'If you are pleased, O Mahādeva, if a boon is to be given to me, / then let my sons and grandsons be devoted to righteousness.'
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Saying 'So be it', Mahādeva, accompanied then by Umā, / mounted upon his bull together with his gaṇas, vanished right there.
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When the god had disappeared from sight, that Daitya too, filled with joy, / established Mahādeva under his own name and went home.
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From that time forward, that pilgrimage place has been supreme among all pilgrimage places; / by mere bathing there, a man is freed from all sins.
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Whoever, having bathed at that pilgrimage place, offers libations to the ancestors and gods, / obtains without doubt the fruit of the Agniṣṭoma sacrifice.
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Whoever undertakes fasting unto death at that pilgrimage place, O king, / his destination is irreversible; he goes to the world of Rudra.
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Or whoever gives up his life in fire or water, O son of Dharma, / resides in the temple of Śiva for twenty thousand years.
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And when that [merit] is exhausted, he is born into an immaculate family, / knowing the true nature of the Vedas and Vedāṅgas, proficient in all the scriptures,
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either a king or equal to a king, and will live for a hundred autumns, / accompanied by sons and grandsons, free from all diseases.
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Thus everything has been related to you, whatever was asked by you, O sinless one, / the fruit of that pilgrimage place in terms of bathing and gifts, O Bhārata.
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This is meritorious, sin-destroying, auspicious, and destroys bad dreams / for those who read or listen to this excellent glorification of the pilgrimage place.
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He who recites it at an ancestral rite, or reads it devoted to the ancestors, / his religious merit becomes imperishable; thus spoke Śaṅkara.
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|| Thus ends the fortieth chapter, named the Description of the Glorification of the Karañjeśvara Pilgrimage Place, in the Glorification of the Narmadā, in the Revākhaṇḍa, in the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the fifth part of the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses
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RKV chapter 41
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