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Padma Purana — Uttara Khanda — Chapter 160

PdP 6 160.1

महादेव उवाच। अस्मात्तीर्थात्परं तीर्थं तीर्थराजेति विश्रुतम् । सप्तनद्यो वहंत्यत्र चंदनोदकमिश्रितम्

mahādeva uvāca| asmāttīrthātparaṃ tīrthaṃ tīrtharājeti viśrutam | saptanadyo vahaṃtyatra caṃdanodakamiśritam

Mahādeva said: Beyond this holy place is a holy place renowned as the King of Holy Places; seven rivers flow there, mixed with sandal-scented water.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

PdP 6 160.2

अन्यतीर्थाच्छतगुणं स्नानं चात्र विशिष्यते । देवानां प्रवरो देवो यत्रास्ते वामनः स्वयम्

anyatīrthācchataguṇaṃ snānaṃ cātra viśiṣyate | devānāṃ pravaro devo yatrāste vāmanaḥ svayam

Bathing here is distinguished as a hundred times (more meritorious) than at another holy place; (it is) where the foremost god of the gods, Vāmana himself, abides.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

PdP 6 160.3

द्वादश्यां माघमासस्य दद्याद्यस्तिलधेनुकम् । विमुक्तः सर्वपापेभ्यः कुलानां तारयेच्छतम्

dvādaśyāṃ māghamāsasya dadyādyastiladhenukam | vimuktaḥ sarvapāpebhyaḥ kulānāṃ tārayecchatam

Whoever, on the twelfth day of the month of Māgha, gives a cow (made) of sesame, is freed from all sins and would carry across a hundred of his lineages.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

PdP 6 160.4

पानीयमप्यत्र तिलैर्विमिश्रं दद्यात्पितृभ्यः प्रयतो मनुष्यः । श्राद्धं कृतं तेन समाः सहस्रं रहस्यमेतत्पितरो वदंति

pānīyamapyatra tilairvimiśraṃ dadyātpitṛbhyaḥ prayato manuṣyaḥ | śrāddhaṃ kṛtaṃ tena samāḥ sahasraṃ rahasyametatpitaro vadaṃti

If a man, self-controlled, gives here even water mixed with sesame seeds to the ancestors, by that a śrāddha has been performed (lasting) a thousand years — this secret the fathers declare.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

PdP 6 160.5

तीर्थेऽस्मिन्भोजयेद्यो वै ब्राह्मणान्गुडपायसैः । एकस्मिन्भोजिते विप्रे सहस्रं भोजितं भवेत्

tīrthe'sminbhojayedyo vai brāhmaṇānguḍapāyasaiḥ | ekasminbhojite vipre sahasraṃ bhojitaṃ bhavet

Whoever at this holy place feeds brahmins with milk-rice and molasses — when one brahmin is fed, it becomes as though a thousand were fed.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition