The Greatness of Pandu Tirtha

Verse 1 (skanda.5.271.1)

मार्कण्डेय उवाच। पाण्डुतीर्थं ततो गच्छेत्सर्वपापविनाशनम्। तत्र स्नात्वा नरो राजन्मुच्यते सर्वकिल्बिषैः।

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca| pāṇḍutīrthaṁ tato gacchetsarvapāpavināśanam| tatra snātvā naro rājanmucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ||

Markandeya said: Thereafter one should go to Pandu tirtha, destroyer of all sin. Bathing there, O king, a man is freed from all sins.

Verse 2 (skanda.5.271.2)

तत्र तीर्थे तु यः स्नात्वा दापयेत्काञ्चनं शुचिः। भ्रूणहत्यादिपापानि नश्यन्ते नात्र संशयः।

tatra tīrthe tu yaḥ snātvā dāpayetkāñcanaṁ śuciḥ| bhrūṇahatyādipāpāni naśyante nātra saṁśayaḥ||

Whoever bathes there at that tirtha, pure, and gives gold in charity - the sins beginning with feticide are destroyed, there is no doubt.

Verse 3 (skanda.5.271.3)

पिण्डोदकप्रदानेन वाजपेयफलं लभेत्। पितरः पितामहाश्च नृत्यन्ते च प्रहर्षिताः।

piṇḍodakapradānena vājapeyaphalaṁ labhet| pitaraḥ pitāmahāśca nṛtyante ca praharṣitāḥ||

By offering water and the ancestral pinda-offering, one obtains the fruit of the Vajapeya sacrifice; the fathers and forefathers dance, greatly delighted.