Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 69
English (machine translation) 69
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- 69.16 — 2 parts
69.1
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
Then one should go to the supreme Maṅgaleśvara, O king of kings, / established by the son of the Earth wishing for the welfare of the worlds.
69.2
Śaṅkara, adorned with the crescent moon, was pleased with supreme devotion. / On the fourteenth day, the guru, the god Maṅgaleśvara, appeared visibly:
69.3
"Speak, son, a pure boon; I shall grant it to you, O Maṅgala."
69.4
Maṅgala said:
"Be gracious to me, O Śambhu, O Śaṅkara, in birth after birth. / Born from the sweat of your body, I reside among the planets.
69.5
By your favor, O Īśāna, I am worshipful by all deities. / Today I have attained my purpose from seeing and speaking with you.
69.6
May Maheśvara be named after me at this site, O lord of the gods of gods!" / Saying, "Let it be so, O son," he then disappeared.
69.7
The great-souled Maṅgala too, having established Maheśvara, / then worshipped the trident-bearer by the power of his own spiritual discipline.
69.8
The liṅga is indeed named Maṅgaleśvara, removing all sorrow. / At that pilgrimage place, O king, an intelligent man should please brāhmaṇas
69.9
along with their wives, O best of kings, during the Aṅgāraka rite on the fourth lunar day: / a learned brāhmaṇa, knower of the Veda, accompanied by his wife.
69.10
At the conclusion of the rite, a cow with draft animals is given dedicated to Śiva: / "May Mahādeva, whose emblem is the bull, accompanied by his wife, be pleased with me."
69.11
A pair of red garments should be given, O son of Pāṇḍu, / and two draft-animals of red color, as well as white and black,
69.12
an umbrella, an auspicious bed, red garlands, and ointments / should be given with a purified inner self, O best of Pāṇḍavas.
69.13
On the fourth and on the eighth of both the bright and dark fortnights, / a funeral offering should be performed right there, free from stinginess with wealth.
69.14
The ancestors remain well-pleased for one age of the world, O lord of the earth; / a mortal is born with sons birth after birth, O best of kings.
69.15
By the power of that pilgrimage place, a man becomes handsome in all limbs, O king; / his lineage becomes auspicious, and no inauspiciousness is ever found.
69.16
Whoever constantly recites it with devotion, his sin is removed.
69.16.p1
Thus ends the sixty-ninth chapter, entitled the description of the glorification of Maṅgaleśvaratīrtha, in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Avantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.
69.16.p2
RKV Chapter 70
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