The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes The Greatness of Erandi Tirtha which is chapter 217 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 seventeenth chapter of the Reva-khanda of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 217 - The Greatness of Eraṇḍī Tīrtha
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya said:
1-3. Then one should go to the confluence of Eraṇḍī (with Revā) which is bowed to by Suras and Asuras. That Tīrtha is highly meritorious and destructive of great sins.
A devotee should observe fast with perfect restraint of the sense-organs and mind. Then he takes his holy bath in accordance with the injunctions; he is rid of the sin of Brāhmaṇa-slaughter.
If anyone devoutly puts an end to his life there in that Tīrtha, he will undoubtedly go to Rudraloka without any return therefrom.