Skanda Purana

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

This page describes Effect of Cakra Tirtha which is chapter 27 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 twenty-seventh chapter of the Arbuda-khanda of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.

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Chapter 27 - Effect of Cakra Tīrtha

[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]

Pulastya said:

1. Then the best king, go to the Cakra Tīrtha, in comparison to which there is no other better place of pilgrimage. The influential God Viṣṇu had left his Cakra, i.e., His discus here.

2. Killing the demons, the God Viṣṇu entered into the beautiful torrent here and had washed Himself completely by a bath.

3. Those who perform the Śrāddha here both in the retiring i.e. the sleeping place of Hari as well as in His place of contemplation, get their forefathers contented till the persistence of the Creation, O king.

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