The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Kapileshvara (kapila-ishvara-tirtha) which is chapter 88 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 eighty-eighth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 88 - The Greatness of Kapileśvara (kapila-īśvara-tīrtha)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-7. Thereafter, O son of Kuntī, a person should resort to the Kāpila Tīrtha installed by Kapila. It is destructive of all sins.
O king, on the eighth and fourteenth days of a bright fortnight, the person should bathe the Lord, with great devotion, with the milk of a tawny-coloured cow or ghee. Then he should smear Maheśvara with sandal-paste and sweet scents. Then, O excellent king, he should adore with white, sweet-smelling flowers. Those who have conquered their anger and adore (Śiva) thus, never go to the abode of Yama.
By adoring Kapileśvara, wise persons never see the terrible hell of Asipatravana and the fierce Yamacullī (Oven of Yama).
After taking the holy bath in the meritorious Revā waters, the devotee should feed auspicious Brāhmaṇas, O descendant of Bharata, and gratify them with the gifts of cows, garments, gingelly seeds, umbrella and quilts. He is reborn as a pious king.
His splendour will be dazzling but he will not be terrible (i.e. he will be quiescent). His sons will live long. He will speak pleasing words. O son of Pāṇḍu, he will never face hosts of enemies.