Padma Purana — Uttara Khanda — Chapter 163
PdP 6 163.1
महादेव उवाच। तीर्थानां प्रवरं तीर्थं महापातकनाशनम् । गोतीर्थमिति विख्यातं काश्यपह्रदसमीपतः
mahādeva uvāca| tīrthānāṃ pravaraṃ tīrthaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam | gotīrthamiti vikhyātaṃ kāśyapahradasamīpataḥ
Mahādeva said: The foremost of holy places, a sacred site destroying great sins, known as Gotīrtha, (lies) near the pool of Kāśyapa.
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PdP 6 163.2
यानि कानि च पापानि ब्रह्महत्या समानि च । गोतीर्थे तु ततः स्नात्वा नश्यंते नात्र संशयः
yāni kāni ca pāpāni brahmahatyā samāni ca | gotīrthe tu tataḥ snātvā naśyaṃte nātra saṃśayaḥ
Whatever sins there are, even those equal to the killing of a brahmin, are destroyed by bathing there at Gotīrtha — there is no doubt of this.
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PdP 6 163.3
गावः कृष्णां तनुं प्राप्य पूर्वपातकयोगतः । यत्र तीर्थे ततः स्नात्वा शुक्लत्वं पुनरागताः
gāvaḥ kṛṣṇāṃ tanuṃ prāpya pūrvapātakayogataḥ | yatra tīrthe tataḥ snātvā śuklatvaṃ punarāgatāḥ
The cows, having obtained a black body through the connection of a former sin, having bathed at that holy place, regained their whiteness.
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PdP 6 163.4
तत्र तीर्थे नरः स्नात्त्वा दत्वा गोभ्यो गवाह्निकम् । गोमातॄणां प्रसादेन मातॄणामनृणी भवेत्
tatra tīrthe naraḥ snāttvā datvā gobhyo gavāhnikam | gomātṝṇāṃ prasādena mātṝṇāmanṛṇī bhavet
A man, having bathed at that sacred place and given cows their day's fodder, becomes, by the grace of the cow-mothers, free of debt to (his) mothers.
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PdP 6 163.5
गोतीर्थे तु नरो गत्वा स्नात्वा गां तु पयस्विनीम् । ददाति विप्रमुख्येभ्यः स याति ब्रह्मणः पदम्
gotīrthe tu naro gatvā snātvā gāṃ tu payasvinīm | dadāti vipramukhyebhyaḥ sa yāti brahmaṇaḥ padam
A man who goes to Gotīrtha, bathes, and gives a milk-yielding cow to the foremost of brahmins goes to the abode of Brahmā.
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PdP 6 163.163
खंडे साभ्रमतीमाहात्म्ये गोतीर्थंनाम त्रिषष्ट्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः
khaṃḍe sābhramatīmāhātmye gotīrthaṃnāma triṣaṣṭyadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ
(Thus ends) in the section, in the Sābhramatī-māhātmya, the one hundred and sixty-third chapter, called Gotīrtha.
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