The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Trilocana Tirtha which is chapter 117 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 seventeenth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 117 - The Greatness of Trilocana Tīrtha
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-3. Thereafter, O eminent king, a person should go to the meritorious Trilocana Tīrtha. It is there that the Lord of Devas bowed to by all the worlds, is stationed.
He who bathes there in that Tīrtha and devoutly worships Śaṅkara shall undoubtedly go to the abode of Rudra after death.
When the Kalpa ends, he comes back here after sporting there (in Rudra Loka). He shall remain unseparated (from kinsmen) and will be respected (by all) for a hundred years.