आत्मा च पार्थिवश्रेष्ठ स्नानाच्च जलतर्पणात्
And you yourself, O foremost of kings, by bathing and offering water,
कुलसंतारणंनाम तीर्थमेतद्भविष्यति आगच्छानेन देहेन तीर्थस्यास्य प्रभावतः
This holy place will be called 'Kulasaṃtāraṇa,' for the deliverance of the lineage; come here in this body, by the power of this sacred site.
तं विमानमथारुह्य गतः स्वर्गं च तैः सह
Then, ascending the celestial vehicle, he went to heaven together with them.
एष प्रभावो राजर्षे कुलसंतारणस्य च
Such is the power, O royal sage, of Kulasaṃtāraṇa.
स्वदेहेन गतः स्वर्गमेतन्मे कौतुकं महत् ॥ 7.3.48.
He went to heaven in his own body; this is a great wonder to me.
स स्नातो यत्र भूपालस्तन्महच्छ्रेयसे परम्
Where the king bathed, that place is of the highest, supreme merit.
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभास खण्डे तृतीयेऽर्बुदखंडे कुलसंतारणतीर्थमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनामाष्टचत्वारिंशोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the forty-eighth chapter named 'The Description of the Glory of Kulasaṃtāraṇa Tīrtha,' in the third Arbuda section of the seventh Prabhāsa section, in the eighty-one-thousand verse Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.
तत्र स्नातस्य मर्त्त्यस्य जायते पापसंक्षयः
There, for a mortal who bathes, the destruction of sin arises.
पितॄणां च परा तुष्टिर्यावदाभूतसंप्लवम्
And the supreme satisfaction of the ancestors lasted until the dissolution of beings.
तेन पूर्वं तपस्तप्तं शत्रूणामिच्छता क्षयम्
Before that, he performed austerities, desiring the destruction of his enemies.
तपस्तुष्टो महादेवो गते वर्षशतत्रये
After three hundred years had passed, the great god, pleased with his austerity,
ततः पाशुपतं नाम तस्यास्त्रं परमं ददौ
then gave him the supreme weapon called Pāśupata.
अब्रवीद्वचनं चापि प्रहस्य वृषभध्वजः
And the Bull-bannered One, smiling, also spoke these words:
अस्त्रेणानेन युक्तस्त्वमजेयः सर्वदेहिनाम्
Endowed with this weapon, you will be unconquerable among all embodied beings.
एतज्जलाशयं पुण्यं त्रैलोक्ये सचराचरे
This sacred water-reservoir is holy in the three worlds, with all their moving and unmoving beings.
येऽत्र श्राद्धं करिष्यंति पौर्णमास्यां समाहिताः
Those who, with concentrated mind, perform śrāddha here on the full moon day,
पितृमेधफलं तेषामशेषं च भविष्यति 7.3.49.
will obtain the complete fruit of the ancestral rite.
रामोऽप्यसूदयत्क्षत्रं पितृदुःखेन दुःखितः
Rāma too destroyed the kṣatriyas, afflicted by the sorrow of his father.
त्रिःसप्त तर्पयामास पितॄंस्तत्र प्रहर्षितः
There, he joyfully satisfied the ancestors twenty-one times.
दृष्ट्वा मातुः क्षतान्यंगे त्रिःसप्त मनुजाधिप
Seeing the wounds on his mother's body, the lord of men did so twenty-one times.
पिता मे निहतो यस्मात्क्षत्रियैस्तापसो द्विजः
Because my father was killed by kṣatriyas, though he was an ascetic and a twice-born,
क्षत्त्रहीनामहं पृथ्वीं प्रदास्ये सलिलं पितुः
I will offer water to my father, having made the earth devoid of kṣatriyas.
तस्मात्सर्वं प्रयत्नेन श्राद्धं तत्र समाचरेत्
Therefore, one should diligently perform śrāddha there in every way.
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखंडे तृतीयेऽर्बुदखंडे रामतीर्थमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनामैकोनपंचाशत्तमोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the fifty-ninth chapter, called 'The Glory of Rāmatīrtha,' in the third Arbuda section of the seventh Prabhāsa book, in the eighty-one-thousand-verse Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.
तीर्थानां यत्र संजाता कोटिः पार्थिव हेलया
There, by the negligence of a king, a crore of sacred fords came into being.
यदा स्यात्कलिकालस्तु रौद्रो राजन्महीतले
But when the terrible age of Kali arises on earth, O King,
तिस्रः कोट्योऽर्धकोटिश्च तीर्थानां भूमिवासिनाम्
There are thirty million and a half million sacred places inhabited by beings on earth.
पुष्करे च तथा कोटिः कुरुक्षेत्रे च पार्थिव राजन्नेतानि रक्षंति सर्वे देवाः सवासवाः
And likewise, there is a crore in Puṣkara, and in Kurukṣetra as well, O king; all the gods together with Indra protect these.
यदा यदा भयार्त्तानि म्लेच्छस्पर्शात्समंततः
Whenever there is distress from fear, due to the touch of mlecchas all around—
कोटितीर्थानि त्रीण्येव तत्र जातानि भूतले
Then, three crore tīrthas arise there on the earth.