Brahma Purana — Chapter 150
BrP 150.1
पैशाचं तीर्थम् आख्यातं गङ्गाया उत्तरे तटे पिशाचत्वात् पुरा विप्रो मुक्तिम् आप महामते ॥
paiśācaṃ tīrtham ākhyātaṃ gaṅgāyā uttare taṭe piśācatvāt purā vipro muktim āpa mahāmate //
The ford called Paiśāca is on the northern bank of the Gaṅgā; there, of old, a brahmin obtained release from the state of a piśāca, O greatly wise one.
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BrP 150.2
सुयवस्यात्मजो लोके जीगर्तिर् इति विश्रुतः कुटुम्बभारदुःखार्तो दुर्भिक्षेण तु पीडितः ॥
suyavasyātmajo loke jīgartir iti viśrutaḥ kuṭumbabhāraduḥkhārto durbhikṣeṇa tu pīḍitaḥ //
The son of Suyavasya, known in the world as Jīgarti, afflicted by the pain of the burden of his family and oppressed by famine,
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BrP 150.3
मध्यमं तु शुनःशेपं पुत्रं ब्रह्मविदां वरम् विक्रीतवान् क्षत्रियाय वधाय बहुलैर् धनैः ॥
madhyamaṃ tu śunaḥśepaṃ putraṃ brahmavidāṃ varam vikrītavān kṣatriyāya vadhāya bahulair dhanaiḥ //
sold his middle son Śunaḥśepa, best of the knowers of brahman, to a kṣatriya for slaughter, for much wealth.
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BrP 150.4
किं नामापद्गतः पापं नाचरत्य् अपि पण्डितः शमितृत्वे धनं चापि जगृहे बहुलं मुनिः ॥
kiṃ nāmāpadgataḥ pāpaṃ nācaraty api paṇḍitaḥ śamitṛtve dhanaṃ cāpi jagṛhe bahulaṃ muniḥ //
What sin indeed does even a learned man not commit when fallen into distress? And the sage also took much wealth for acting as the slaughterer.
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BrP 150.5
विदारणार्थं च धनं जगृहे ब्राह्मणाधमः ततो ऽप्रतिसमाधेयमहारोगनिपीडितः ॥
vidāraṇārthaṃ ca dhanaṃ jagṛhe brāhmaṇādhamaḥ tato 'pratisamādheyamahāroganipīḍitaḥ //
And that lowest of brahmins took wealth for the cutting up (of the victim); thereafter he was afflicted by a great, incurable disease.
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BrP 150.6
स मृतः कालपर्याये नरकेष्व् अथ पातितः भोगाद् ऋते न क्षयो ऽस्ति प्राक्तनानाम् इहांहसाम् ॥
sa mṛtaḥ kālaparyāye narakeṣv atha pātitaḥ bhogād ṛte na kṣayo 'sti prāktanānām ihāṃhasām //
He died in the course of time and was then cast into the hells; for there is no wearing away of former sins here except by undergoing them.
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BrP 150.7
किंकरैर् यमवाक्येन बहुयोन्यन्तरं गतः ततः पिशाचो ह्य् अभवद् दारुणो दारुणाकृतिः ॥
kiṃkarair yamavākyena bahuyonyantaraṃ gataḥ tataḥ piśāco hy abhavad dāruṇo dāruṇākṛtiḥ //
By the servants (of Yama), at Yama's word, he passed through many different births; then he became a piśāca, dreadful and of dreadful shape.
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BrP 150.8
शुष्ककाष्ठेष्व् अथारण्ये निर्जले निर्जने तथा ग्रीष्मे ग्रीष्मदवव्याप्ते क्षिप्यते यमकिंकरैः ॥
śuṣkakāṣṭheṣv athāraṇye nirjale nirjane tathā grīṣme grīṣmadavavyāpte kṣipyate yamakiṃkaraiḥ //
And he is flung by Yama's servants among dry logs in a forest, waterless and without people, in the hot season, when it is overspread by the summer wildfire.
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BrP 150.9
कन्यापुत्रमहीवाजिगवां विक्रयकारिणः नरकान् न निवर्तन्ते यावद् आभूतसंप्लवम् ॥
kanyāputramahīvājigavāṃ vikrayakāriṇaḥ narakān na nivartante yāvad ābhūtasaṃplavam //
Those who sell a daughter, a son, land, horses, or cows do not return from the hells until the dissolution of beings.
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BrP 150.10
स्वकृताघविपाकेन दारुणैर् यमकिंकरैः संघाते पच्यमानो ऽसौ रुरोदोच्चैः कृतं स्मरन् ॥
svakṛtāghavipākena dāruṇair yamakiṃkaraiḥ saṃghāte pacyamāno 'sau rurodoccaiḥ kṛtaṃ smaran //
Through the ripening of the sin he himself had done, being cooked in the Saṃghāta (hell) by the dreadful servants of Yama, he wept aloud, remembering what he had done.
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BrP 150.11
पथि गच्छन् कदाचित् स जीगर्तेर् मध्यमः सुतः शुश्राव रुदतो वाणीं पिशाचस्य मुहुर् मुहुः ॥
pathi gacchan kadācit sa jīgarter madhyamaḥ sutaḥ śuśrāva rudato vāṇīṃ piśācasya muhur muhuḥ //
Once, as he was going along the road, that middle son of Jīgarti heard again and again the voice of the piśāca as it wept.
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BrP 150.12
पुत्रक्रेतुर् ब्रह्महन्तुर् जीगर्तेस् तु पितुस् तदा पापिनः पुत्रविक्रेतुर् ब्रह्महन्तुः पितुश् च ताम् ॥
putrakretur brahmahantur jīgartes tu pitus tadā pāpinaḥ putravikretur brahmahantuḥ pituś ca tām //
Then (he heard) that (voice) of the buyer of the son, the brahmin-slayer—of his father Jīgarti, the sinner, seller of his son, brahmin-slayer, and father.
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BrP 150.13
शुनःशेपस् तदोवाच को भवान् अतिदुःखितः जीगर्तिर् अब्रवीद् दुःखाच् छुनःशेपपिता ह्य् अहम् ॥
śunaḥśepas tadovāca ko bhavān atiduḥkhitaḥ jīgartir abravīd duḥkhāc chunaḥśepapitā hy aham //
Śunaḥśepa then said: "Who are you, so greatly suffering?" Jīgarti said out of his pain: "I am the father of Śunaḥśepa.
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BrP 150.14
पापीयसीं क्रियां कृत्वा योनिं प्राप्तो ऽस्मि दारुणाम् नरकेष्व् अथ पक्वश् च पुनः प्राप्तो ऽन्तरालकम् ये ये दुष्कृतकर्माणस् तेषां तेषाम् इयं गतिः ॥
pāpīyasīṃ kriyāṃ kṛtvā yoniṃ prāpto 'smi dāruṇām narakeṣv atha pakvaś ca punaḥ prāpto 'ntarālakam ye ye duṣkṛtakarmāṇas teṣāṃ teṣām iyaṃ gatiḥ //
"Having done a most sinful deed, I have reached a dreadful birth; and cooked in the hells, I have again reached the intermediate state. Whoever are doers of evil deeds, this is the course of every one of them."
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BrP 150.15
जीगर्तिपुत्रस् तम् उवाच दुःखात् सो ऽहं सुतस् ते मम दोषेण तात विक्रीत्वा मां नरकान् एवम् आप्तस् ततः करिष्ये स्वर्गतं त्वाम् इदानीम्
jīgartiputras tam uvāca duḥkhāt so 'haṃ sutas te mama doṣeṇa tāta vikrītvā māṃ narakān evam āptas tataḥ kariṣye svargataṃ tvām idānīm
The son of Jīgarti said to him out of sorrow: "I am he, your son; through my fault, father, by selling me, you have thus obtained the hells. Therefore I shall now make you one who has gone to heaven."
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BrP 150.16
एवं प्रतिज्ञाय स गाधिपुत्र पुत्रत्वम् आप्तो ऽथ मुनिप्रवीरः गङ्गाम् अभिध्याय पितुश् च लोकान् अनुत्तमान् ईहमानो जगाम
evaṃ pratijñāya sa gādhiputra putratvam āpto 'tha munipravīraḥ gaṅgām abhidhyāya pituś ca lokān anuttamān īhamāno jagāma
Having so promised, the son of Gādhi's son—that foremost of sages—having attained sonship, went off, meditating on the Gaṅgā and seeking the most excellent worlds for his father.
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BrP 150.17
अशेषदुःखानलधूपितानां निमज्जतां मोहमहासमुद्रे शरीरिणां नान्यद् अहो त्रिलोक्याम् आलम्बनं विष्णुपदीं विहाय
aśeṣaduḥkhānaladhūpitānāṃ nimajjatāṃ mohamahāsamudre śarīriṇāṃ nānyad aho trilokyām ālambanaṃ viṣṇupadīṃ vihāya
For embodied beings, smoked (scorched) by the fire of endless suffering and sinking in the great ocean of delusion, there is—ah!—no other support in the three worlds than Viṣṇu's river (the Gaṅgā), apart from it.
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BrP 150.18
एवं विनिश्चित्य मुनिर् महात्मा समुद्दिधीर्षुः पितरं स दुर्गतेः शुचिस् ततो गौतमीम् आशु गत्वा तत्र स्नात्वा संस्मरञ् छंभुविष्णू
evaṃ viniścitya munir mahātmā samuddidhīrṣuḥ pitaraṃ sa durgateḥ śucis tato gautamīm āśu gatvā tatra snātvā saṃsmarañ chaṃbhuviṣṇū
Having so resolved, the great-souled sage, wishing to lift his father up out of his evil state, purified, then went swiftly to the Gautamī and, having bathed there, remembering Śambhu and Viṣṇu—
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BrP 150.19
ददौ जलं प्रेतरूपाय पित्रे पिशाचरूपाय सुदुःखिताय तद्दानमात्रेण तदैव पूतो जीगर्तिर् आवाप वपुः सुपुण्यम्
dadau jalaṃ pretarūpāya pitre piśācarūpāya suduḥkhitāya taddānamātreṇa tadaiva pūto jīgartir āvāpa vapuḥ supuṇyam
—gave water to his father, who was in the form of a departed spirit, in the form of a piśāca, greatly suffering; and by that gift alone Jīgarta was at once purified and obtained a most holy body.
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BrP 150.20
विमानयुक्तः सुरसंघजुष्टं विष्णोः पदं प्राप सुतप्रभावात् गङ्गाप्रभावाच् च हरेश् च शंभोर् विधातुर् अर्कायुततुल्यतेजाः
vimānayuktaḥ surasaṃghajuṣṭaṃ viṣṇoḥ padaṃ prāpa sutaprabhāvāt gaṅgāprabhāvāc ca hareś ca śaṃbhor vidhātur arkāyutatulyatejāḥ
Provided with a celestial car, his splendour equal to ten thousand suns, he reached Viṣṇu's abode, frequented by the hosts of gods, by the power of his son and by the power of the Gaṅgā, and of Hari, of Śambhu, and of the Creator.
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BrP 150.21
ततः प्रभृत्य् एतद् अतिप्रसिद्धं पैशाचनाशं च महागदं च महान्ति पापानि च नाशम् आशु प्रयान्ति यस्य स्मरणेन पुंसाम्
tataḥ prabhṛty etad atiprasiddhaṃ paiśācanāśaṃ ca mahāgadaṃ ca mahānti pāpāni ca nāśam āśu prayānti yasya smaraṇena puṃsām
From then on this (tīrtha) became very famous as the destroyer of piśāca-possession and of great disease; and great sins too swiftly go to destruction for men by remembering it.
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BrP 150.22
तीर्थस्य चेदं गदितं तवाद्य माहात्म्यम् एतत् त्रिशतानि यत्र तीर्थान्य् अथान्यानि भवन्ति भुक्ति मुक्तिप्रदायीनि किम् अन्यद् अत्र
tīrthasya cedaṃ gaditaṃ tavādya māhātmyam etat triśatāni yatra tīrthāny athānyāni bhavanti bhukti muktipradāyīni kim anyad atra
And this greatness of the tīrtha has now been told to you, where there are also three hundred other tīrthas, bestowers of enjoyment and of liberation—what more (is there) here?
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BrP 150.23
सर्वसिद्धिदम् आख्यातम् इत्याद्य् अत्र शतत्रयम् तीर्थानां मुनिजुष्टानां स्मरणाद् अप्य् अभीष्टदम् ॥
sarvasiddhidam ākhyātam ityādy atra śatatrayam tīrthānāṃ munijuṣṭānāṃ smaraṇād apy abhīṣṭadam //
Thus and so forth has been declared, granting all attainments: here there are three hundred tīrthas, resorted to by sages, granting what is desired even by remembrance.
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