Chapter 183 - Greatness of Trisaṅgama

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Īśvara said:

1-4. Thereafter, O great goddess, a pilgrim should go to the excellent Miśra Tīrtha famous as the excellent Solar Tīrtha Trisaṅgama.

O fair lady, the confluence of these three, Sarasvatī, Hiraṇyā and the ocean, is very difficult to be obtained even by deities.

This excellent Tīrtha which is the most important of all the Tīrthas thereof, surpasses even Kurukṣetra during the solar Parva i.e. Solar eclipse.

Holy bath, Dāna and Japa, everything performed there shall be a crore times more efficacious.

5. O great goddess, there are ten crores of Tīrthas in the intervening space from Maṅkīśvara upto Kṛtasmara Liṅga.

6. Worms, insects and locusts or even Cāṇḍālas and other base men there attain heaven. What then in the case of a person of purified soul?

7. Yellow garments, gold and an excellent cow should be given as gifts to a Brāhmaṇa by those who desire to obtain the benefit of a perfect pilgrimage.

8. The pilgrim should take his holy bath on the fourteenth day in the dark half and offer libations to the Pitṛs. Thereby the Pitṛs will be propitiated as long as the moon, the sun and the stars exist.

9. This confluence of the three, O goddess, is destructive of all great sins. It is very rarely accessible in all the three worlds especially on the Full-Moon day in the month of Vaiśākha.

10. O my beloved, Vṛṣotsarga (release of a bull) should be particularly performed by excellent men for the destruction of all sins and for the delight of the Pitṛs.