Revākhaṇḍa ascribed to the Vāyupurāṇa (RKV) 88
English (machine translation) 88
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- 88.7 — 2 parts
88.1
The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Immediately after that, O Pārtha, one should resort to the Kāpila pilgrimage place, / established by Kapila himself, which destroys all sins.
88.2
On the eighth and on the fourteenth day in the bright fortnight, O lord of men, / one should bathe [him] with supreme devotion using milk and ghee from a brown cow;
88.3
one should smear Maheśvara with fragrant sandalwood paste. / Then, with fragrant white flowers, O best of kings—
88.4
those who, having conquered anger, worship [him] do not go to the abode of Yama. / The dreadful Sword-leaved Forest and the terrible furnace of Yama
88.5
are not seen at all by wise men because of worshipping Kapileśvara. / Having bathed in the holy waters of the Revā, one should feed auspicious brāhmaṇas;
88.6
by the gift of a cow, clothing, the gift of sesame, O Bhārata, / [and] by the gift of an umbrella and a bed, a righteous king
88.7
becomes endowed with intense splendor, free from terror, with living sons, and pleasing in speech; / he would never have any host of enemies, O son of Pāṇḍu.
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|| Thus ends the eighty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glorification of the Kapileśvara Pilgrimage Place', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, the fifth [book] in the venerable Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
88.7.p2
RKV Chapter 89
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