The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Agastyeshvara (agastya-ishvara-tirtha) which is chapter 64 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 sixty-fourth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 64 - The Greatness of Agastyeśvara (agastya-īśvara-tīrtha)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-4. Then, O great king, one should go to the highly splendid Tīrtha, the excellent Agastyeśvara (created) for the sake of the destruction of the sins of men.
By taking the holy ablution there, O king, one is rid of the sin of Brāhmaṇa-slaughter.
On the fourteenth day in the dark half of the month of Kārttika the devotee should control his sense-organs and be engaged in meditation. He should bathe the Lord with ghee. Accompanied by twenty-one generations of his family he shall (not[1]) slip down (?) from the region of Īśvara.
He shall then make gifts of wealth, shoes, umbrella, ghee, blanket and food to all. All (the gifts) shall have crore-times more benefit.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
‘na’ (not) is not printed in the text due to oversight.