The Skanda Purana

by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words

This page describes The Greatness of Shringi Tirtha which is chapter 215 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 two hundred fifteenth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.

Chapter 215 - The Greatness of Śṛṅgī Tīrtha

[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]

Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:

1-2. Thereafter, one should go to the Śṛṅgī Tīrtha that accords salvation unto all embodied beings. O great king, there is no doubt about the attainment of salvation by those who die there.

There itself one should offer balls of rice. Thereby one becomes free from indebtedness to Pitṛs. Becoming a purified soul by that merit, he attains the goal of Gaṇeśvaras.

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