The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Bhargaleshvara (bhargala-ishvara-tirtha) which is chapter 152 of the English translation of the Skanda Purana, the largest of the eighteen Mahapuranas, preserving the ancient Indian society and Hindu traditions in an encyclopedic format, detailling on topics such as dharma (virtous lifestyle), cosmogony (creation of the universe), mythology (itihasa), genealogy (vamsha) etc. This is the one hundred fifty-second chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 152 - The Greatness of Bhārgaleśvara (bhārgala-īśvara-tīrtha)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-3. Thereafter, O protector of the earth, one should go to the excellent Bhārgaleśvara Śaṅkara, who is the very life-breath of the world. It (this Tīrtha) destroys sins by merely remembering it. One who takes his holy bath there in that Tīrtha and adores Parameśvara attains the merit of performing a horse-sacrifice. Undoubtedly his departure to Rudraloka is one without a return therefrom.
If someone gives up his life in the Tīrtha, he gets the goal of Rudraloka from which there is no return.