If a man bathes continually at that sacred place for a full year, he receives remarkable blessings. The goddess who dwells upon the mountain peak is to be known as residing in the northeast. There lies the holy ford called Brahmodaya, renowned as a destroyer of sin. One who bathes there is spared from entering the world of death and does not fall into hardship. After bathing in those waters, a person becomes handsome and radiant. Performing evening worship at this site frees a twice-born person from all sin. Should a pure and twice-born devotee stay there for a day and night, reciting the Rudra prayers, his entire lineage is rescued and becomes virtuous through him. Wherever the best of men bathes in the sacred Vāgmatī river, he avoids a lower birth and is born into a prosperous family. A wise person should approach this place as prescribed, free from desire and anger. The merit gained from bathing there is tenfold—there is no doubt about this. The reward for giving charity at this place is imperishable; the donor attains great merit. There is no field of merit superior to this, and none other is known. Wherever I, in the form of a deer, wandered among the gods, each place became a sacred ground, entirely holy. This site will become famous on earth as Gokarṇeśvara. Invisible to the gods, I departed toward the northern direction. Thus ends the chapter describing the glory of Jaleśvara in the Bhagavad Gokarṇeśvara Mahatmya of the sacred Varaha Purana. Now begins the account of the greatness of Gokarṇa, Śṛṅgeśvara, and other holy places. When the deer-formed Lord departed from Tryambaka, the horn was divided into three parts, each situated separately. O Devi, Vajrapāṇi took the tip of the horn and established it. The gods, divine sages, Siddhas, and Brahmarshis all took part, and Viṣṇu established the root with the sacred water of the gods. Upon that very peak, the Blessed Lord abided in a threefold form. He placed a hundred portions of himself within the deer. By that path, through that body, the Blessed and All-pervading One departed. The division at that lord of mountains is remembered as a hundredfold. Then the preceptor of gods and demons worshipped the great lord of beings. Gods, demons, Gandharvas, Siddhas, Yakṣas, and great serpents undertook a pilgrimage and performed circumambulation. Afterward, they returned to their own abodes. Then Paulastya, known as Rāvaṇa, together with his brothers, the Rākṣasas, served the imperishable Lord of Gokarṇa with utmost devotion. That Rākṣasa sought the boon of victory over the three worlds. Having obtained his desire from the Supreme Lord, Daśagrīva conquered the three worlds and Indra, the king of the gods. The summit, which had once been carried away and set down by the wielder of the thunderbolt, was placed for a moment on the shore of the ocean by Rāvaṇa. But when the Rākṣasa tried to uproot it again by force, he was unable to do so.