The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Agni Tirtha which is chapter 127 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 twenty-seventh chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 127 - The Greatness of Agni Tīrtha
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-4. Thereafter, O eminent king, a person should go to the excellent Agni Tīrtha. By taking the holy bath there at the beginning of a fortnight, one is rid of all sins.
Listen, O best one among men, to the benefit proclaimed as accruing unto a man who gifts away a virgin well-adorned at that Tīrtha.
By gifting her adorned in accordance with his capacity, the man obtains the benefit of Agniṣṭoma and Atirātra multiplied by hundred times a hundred.
He attains the greatest goal in the world of Śiva for as many years as there are hairs on the bodies of her sons, grandsons and great-grandsons.