Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1 eBook

Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa
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Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1 eBook

Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 546 pages of information about Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1.
There in that tirtha is another called Kapalamochana, which cleanseth from every sin.  O tiger among men, bathing there one is cleansed from every sin.  One should then proceed to the tirtha called Agni.  Bathing there, O bull among men, one obtaineth the regions of agni and raiseth his own race (from lower regions).  There in that tirtha is another, O chief of the Bharatas, that belongeth to Viswamitra.  Bathing there, O best of men, one obtaineth the status of a Brahmana.  Proceeding next to Brahmayoni in purity of body and with subdued soul, one obtaineth, O tiger among men, by bathing there, the abode of Brahma, and sanctifieth, without doubt, his own race to the seventh generation up and down.  One should next proceed, O king, to the tirtha celebrated over the three worlds, which is called Prithudaka, belonging to Kartikeya.  One should bathe there and occupy oneself in the worship of the Pitris and the gods.  Whatever evil hath been committed, knowingly or unknowingly, by man or woman, impelled by human motives, is all destroyed, O Bharata, by a bath in that tirtha.  Bathing there one obtaineth, too, the merit of the horse-sacrifice and heaven also.  The learned have said that Kurukshetra is holy; that holier than Kurukshetra is the Saraswati; that holier than the Saraswati are all the tirthas together, and that holier than all the tirthas together is Prithudaka.  He that engaged in the recitation of prayers casteth off his body at Prithudaka, which is the best of all tirthas, becometh an immortal.  It hath been sung by Sanatkumara and by the high-souled Vyasa, and it is in the Vedas also, that one should, O king, go to Prithudaka, with subdued soul.  O son of Kuru race, there is no tirtha which is superior to Prithudaka.  Without doubt, that tirtha is purifying, holy and sin-destroying.  O best of men, it hath been said by learned persons that men, however sinful, by bathing in Prithudaka, go to heaven.  O best of the Bharatas, there in that tirtha is another called Madhusrava.  Bathing there, O king, one obtaineth the merit of giving away a thousand kine.  One should then proceed, O king, to that celebrated and sacred tirtha where the Saraswati uniteth with the Aruna.  One that batheth there, having fasted for three nights, is cleansed of even the sin of slaying a Brahmana, and obtaineth also merit that is superior to that of either the Agnishtoma or Atiratra sacrifice, and rescueth his race to the seventh generation up and down.  There in that tirtha is another, O perpetuator of the Kuru race, that is called Ardhakila.  From compassion for the Brahmanas, that tirtha was made by Darbhi in days of old.  Without doubt, by vows, by investiture of the sacred, by fasts, by rites and by Mantras, one becometh a Brahmana.  O bull among men, it hath been seen, however, by learned
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