Padma Purana — Uttara Khanda — Chapter 165
PdP 6 165.1
महादेव उवाच। भूतालयं ततो गच्छेत्तीर्थं पापहरं पदम् । भूतालयो वटो यत्र यत्र प्राची तु चंदना
mahādeva uvāca| bhūtālayaṃ tato gacchettīrthaṃ pāpaharaṃ padam | bhūtālayo vaṭo yatra yatra prācī tu caṃdanā
Mahādeva said: Then one should go to Bhūtālaya, a sacred place, a site that removes sin — Bhūtālaya, where the banyan is, and where the Candanā (flows) eastward.
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PdP 6 165.2
भूतालये नरः स्नात्वा कृष्णाष्टम्यामुपोषितः । यस्तु कृष्णतिलान्दद्यान्न स प्रेतोऽभिजायते
bhūtālaye naraḥ snātvā kṛṣṇāṣṭamyāmupoṣitaḥ | yastu kṛṣṇatilāndadyānna sa preto'bhijāyate
A man who bathes at Bhūtālaya, fasting on the eighth day of the dark fortnight, and gives black sesame seeds, is not born as a ghost.
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PdP 6 165.3
पितॄनुद्दिश्य यो दद्यादुदकुंभं तिलैः सह । पूर्वजान्प्रेतभावात्स मोचयेन्नात्र संशयः
pitṝnuddiśya yo dadyādudakuṃbhaṃ tilaiḥ saha | pūrvajānpretabhāvātsa mocayennātra saṃśayaḥ
He who, designating (it) for the ancestors, gives a water-pot together with sesame seeds, releases his forefathers from the state of ghosts — there is no doubt of this.
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PdP 6 165.4
यस्य नाम्ना नरः स्नाति प्रेतत्वात्स विमुच्यते । चतुर्दश्यामथाष्टम्यां प्रभाते विमलोदके
yasya nāmnā naraḥ snāti pretatvātsa vimucyate | caturdaśyāmathāṣṭamyāṃ prabhāte vimalodake
By whose name a man bathes, he is released from the state of a ghost. On the fourteenth or on the eighth (day), at dawn, in the clear water —
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PdP 6 165.5
तीर्थे भूतालये स्नात्वा दृष्ट्वा भूतालयं वटम् । भूतेश्वरप्रसादेन भूतेभ्यो न लभेद्भयम्
tīrthe bhūtālaye snātvā dṛṣṭvā bhūtālayaṃ vaṭam | bhūteśvaraprasādena bhūtebhyo na labhedbhayam
— having bathed at the sacred ford Bhūtālaya and having seen the banyan tree of Bhūtālaya, by the grace of Bhūteśvara he would incur no fear from the spirits (bhūtas).
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PdP 6 165.6
इति श्रीभूतेश्वरतीर्थम् । अतस्तीर्थात्परं तीर्थं घटेश्वरमिति स्मृतम् । यत्र स्नात्वा तु तं दृष्ट्वा मुक्तिभागी भवेद्ध्रुवम्
iti śrībhūteśvaratīrtham | atastīrthātparaṃ tīrthaṃ ghaṭeśvaramiti smṛtam | yatra snātvā tu taṃ dṛṣṭvā muktibhāgī bhaveddhruvam
Thus the sacred ford of Śrī Bhūteśvara. Beyond this ford, the ford known as Ghaṭeśvara is remembered; bathing there and seeing him, one surely becomes a partaker of liberation.
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PdP 6 165.7
यत्र साभ्रमती तीर्थं घटो वै परमो महान् । दृष्ट्वा चैव महादेवं मुच्यते नात्र संशयः
yatra sābhramatī tīrthaṃ ghaṭo vai paramo mahān | dṛṣṭvā caiva mahādevaṃ mucyate nātra saṃśayaḥ
Where the Sābhramatī is the sacred ford, the Ghaṭa (pot) is indeed supreme and great; and having seen Mahādeva there, one is released — no doubt of this.
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PdP 6 165.8
तत्र गत्वा विशेषेण प्लक्षपूजां करोति यः । मनसाभीप्सितान्कामाँल्लभते मानवो भुवि
tatra gatvā viśeṣeṇa plakṣapūjāṃ karoti yaḥ | manasābhīpsitānkāmā~llabhate mānavo bhuvi
He who, going there, performs in particular the worship of the plakṣa (tree), that man obtains on earth the desires longed for in his mind.
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PdP 6 165.9
इति घटेश्वरतीर्थम् । ततो गच्छेन्नरो भक्त्या वैद्यनाथेति विश्रुतम् । तत्र स्नात्वा नरस्तीर्थे शिवपूजनतत्परः
iti ghaṭeśvaratīrtham | tato gacchennaro bhaktyā vaidyanātheti viśrutam | tatra snātvā narastīrthe śivapūjanatatparaḥ
Thus the sacred ford of Ghaṭeśvara. Then a man should go with devotion to (the ford) renowned as Vaidyanātha; having bathed there in the ford, a man intent on the worship of Śiva —
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PdP 6 165.10
पितॄन्संतर्प्य विधिना सर्वयज्ञफलं लभेत् । विजयो देवसंभूतः सर्वपापक्षयंकरः । यं दृष्ट्वा विविधान्कामान्प्राप्नुयुस्ते नराः सदा 6.165.
pitṝnsaṃtarpya vidhinā sarvayajñaphalaṃ labhet | vijayo devasaṃbhūtaḥ sarvapāpakṣayaṃkaraḥ | yaṃ dṛṣṭvā vividhānkāmānprāpnuyuste narāḥ sadā 6.165.
— and having gratified the ancestors according to rule, he would obtain the fruit of all sacrifices. Vijaya, born of the god, is the destroyer of all sins; seeing whom, those men always obtain manifold desires.
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