The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Dvadashi Tirtha which is chapter 144 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 forty-fourth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 144 - The Greatness of Dvādaśī Tīrtha
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-3. Thereafter, O great king, one should go to the excellent Dvādaśī Tīrtha. All the Dāna as well as Japa, Homa, Bali and other rites performed (elsewhere) perish. But what is performed in Cakratīrtha (?) never perishes.
Whatever is there in regard to the excellent greatness of the Tīrtha, past, present as well as future has been entirely recounted by me separately, O descendant of Bharata.