Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 66

English (machine translation) 66

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66.9 — 2 parts

66.1

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then one should go, O best of kings, to the unexcelled Mātṛtīrtha, / Situated near the confluence on the southern bank of the Narmadā.

66.2

The Mothers were born there on the bank of the Narmadā, O best of kings. / The lord of the gods, half-woman with Umā, wearing a snake as a sacred thread,

66.3

Said to the host of yoginīs: 'O Hara, what trouble, what trouble! / By your grace, O Maheśvara, [you] are unconquerable by all the gods.

66.4

Let there be a pilgrimage place here celebrated on the earth according to rule.' / Saying, 'So be it, O yoginīs,' Śiva disappeared.

66.5

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / At that pilgrimage place, one who, restrained and pure, with devotion on the ninth day, / Having fasted with supreme devotion, worships the domain of the Mothers,

66.6

To him the Mothers will be pleased, and this [god] whose mount is the bull is pleased. / For a barren woman, for a woman whose children have died, [and] for a childless woman, O Yudhiṣṭhira,

66.7

The best knower of the scriptures on mantras should begin the ceremonial bath there / With a golden jar accompanied by the five gems and fruits.

66.8

The spiritual guide should bathe the woman desiring a son with a bell-metal vessel. / That woman obtains a son endowed with vigour and good qualities.

66.9

Whatever desire one contemplates, he obtains that from it, O king. / Greater than Mātṛtīrtha, there has never been a pilgrimage place, nor will there ever be.

|| Thus ends the sixty-sixth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glorification of Mātṛtīrtha', in the Revā Section of the fifth Avanti Section in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compilation of eighty-one thousand verses.

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RKV chapter 67

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