The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Pandu Tirtha which is chapter 116 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 sixteenth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 116 - The Greatness of Pāṇḍu Tīrtha
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-3. Thereafter, one should go to the Pāṇḍu Tīrtha that is destructive of all sins. By taking his holy bath therein, the man is rid of all sins.
He who takes his holy bath there in that Tīrtha, becomes pure and then gives away gold by way of charity, gets the sin such as that of foeticide destroyed undoubtedly.
By offering balls of rice and libations, one gets the benefit of a Vājapeya. The Pitṛs and Pitāmahas become highly delighted and, therefore, begin to dance.