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Chapter 18

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जैमिनिरुवाच- तीर्थश्रेष्ठमिति प्रोक्तं यत्त्वया पुरुषोत्तमम् । तन्माहात्म्यं गुरो ब्रूहि यदि ते मय्यनुग्रहः १। व्यास उवाच- पुरुषोत्तमस्य माहात्म्यं समासेन शृणु द्विज । सम्यग्वक्तुं जगत्यस्मिन्कः शक्तो विष्णुना विना २। लवणांभोनिधेस्तीरं पुरुषोत्तमसंज्ञितम् । पुरं तद्ब्राह्मणश्रेष्ठ स्वर्गादपि च दुर्ल्लभम् ३। स्वयमस्ति पुरे तस्मिन्यतः श्रीपुरुषोत्तमः । पुरुषोत्तममित्युक्तं तस्मात्तन्नामकोविदैः ४। क्षेत्रं तद्दुर्ल्लभं विप्र समंताद्दशयोजनम् । तत्रस्थदेहिनो देवैर्दृश्यंते च चतुर्भुजाः ५। प्रविशन्वै तु तत्क्षेत्रं सर्वे स्युर्विष्णुमूर्तयः । तस्माद्विचारणा तत्र न कर्त्तव्या विचक्षणैः ६। चाण्डालेनापि संस्पृष्टं ग्राह्यं तत्रान्नमग्रजैः । साक्षाद्विष्णुर्यतस्तत्र चाण्डालो द्विजसत्तम ७। तत्रान्नपाचिका लक्ष्मीः स्वयं भोक्ता जनार्द्दनः । तस्मात्तत्रौदनं विप्र दैवतैरपि दुर्ल्लभम् ८। हरिभुक्तावशिष्टं यत्पवित्रं भुवि दुर्ल्लभम् । अन्नं ये भुञ्जते लोकास्तेषां मुक्तिर्न दुर्ल्लभा ९। ब्रह्माद्यास्त्रिदशाः सर्वे तदन्नमतिदुर्ल्लभम् । भुञ्जते नित्यमागत्य मानुषाणां च का कथा १०। न यस्य रमते चित्तं तस्मिन्नन्ने सुदुर्ल्लभे । तमेव विष्णुद्वेष्टारं प्राहुः सर्वमहर्षयः ११। पवित्रं भुवि सर्वत्र यथा गङ्गाजलं द्विज । तथा पवित्रं सर्वत्र तदन्नं पापनाशनम् १२। तदन्नं कोमलं दिव्यं यद्यपि द्विजसत्तम । कृकचस्योदरप्रायं तथाप्यघविदारणे १३। पूर्वार्जितानि पापानि क्षयं यास्यंति यस्य वै । भक्तिः प्रवर्तते यस्य तस्मिन्नन्ने सुदुर्ल्लभे १४। बहुजन्मार्जितं पुण्यं यस्य यास्यति संक्षयम् । तस्मिन्नन्ने द्विजश्रेष्ठ तस्य भक्तिर्न जायते १५। इन्द्रद्युम्नस्य सरसि मार्कंडेयह्रदे तथा । रोहिण्यां च समुद्रे च श्वेतगङ्गाजलेषु च १६। स्नानं ये कुर्वते मर्त्या भक्तिभावसमन्विताः । तेषां न विद्यते जन्म पुनरस्मिन्महीतले १७। लवणांभोनिधेस्तोयैः पितरस्तर्पिता द्विज । सर्वदुःखविनिर्मुक्ता व्रजंति हरिमंदिरम् १८। तीर्थराजः समुद्रो ऽसौ कीर्तितस्तत्वदर्शिभिः । तस्मात्तत्र कृतं कर्म सर्वमेवाक्षयं भवेत् १९। पित्रर्चनं तथा दानं भगवच्चरणार्चनम् । जप यज्ञं तथान्यच्च तस्मिन्क्षेत्रे मनोरमे २०। यत्कर्म कुरुते मर्त्यो विष्णुप्रीणनहेतवे । सर्वमेवाक्षयं तच्च भवेन्नास्त्यत्र संशयः २१। बलभद्रं सुभद्रां च कृष्णं च कमलेक्षणम् । ये मानवाः प्रपश्यंति तेषां किंचिन्न दुर्ल्लभम् २२। अदृष्ट्वा श्रीजगन्नाथं सुभद्रां च बलं तथा । मोक्षं न लभते मर्त्यः कुर्वन्पुण्यशतान्यपि २३। तत्र वेत्रप्रहारेण शरीरं यस्य लोहितम् । तं वंदंते द्विजश्रेष्ठ देवाः शक्रादयोऽखिलाः २४। स्थित्वांतरिक्षे शक्राद्याः सर्वदेवगणा द्विज । विमानचारिणोऽन्योन्यं प्रवदंतीति हर्षिताः २५अं। कदा मानुष्यमस्मभ्यं दास्यते कमलापतिः । मनुष्य इव गच्छामस्तदा द्रष्टुं हरिं प्रभुम् २६। कदा वेत्रप्रहारेण क्षेत्रे श्रीपुरुषोत्तमे । भविष्यंत्यस्मदीयानि लोहितानि वपूंषि च २७। वासवाद्याः सुराः सर्वे तस्मिन्क्षेत्रे वरप्रदे । सदा वेत्रप्रहारांश्च वांछंति द्विजसत्तम २८। तत्राक्षयवटं ये तु भक्त्या पश्यंति मानवाः । कोटिजन्मार्जितैः पापैर्मुक्ता यांति परां गतिम् २९। सुभद्रां बलभद्रं च जगन्नाथमनामयम् । श्वेतं माधवदेवेशं मार्कंडेयह्रदं तथा ३०। ज्यामेश्वरं हनूमंतं तत्राक्षय्यं वटं द्विज । पश्यंति भक्त्या ये मर्त्यास्तेषां मुक्तिर्हि शाश्वती ३१। दोलायमानं गोविन्दं फाल्गुनेमासि तत्र ये । पश्यंति मानवा भक्त्या तेषां पुण्यं निशामय ३२। विमुक्ताः सकलैः पापैरंते यांति हरेर्गृहम् । ज्ञानं संप्राप्य तत्रैव मोक्षं यांति सुदुर्ल्लभम् ३३। चेत्रके मासि वारुण्यां यो जगन्नाथमीक्षते । स मृतः प्रविशेद्देहं जगन्नाथस्य जैमिने ३४। वैशाखे चैव शुक्लायामेकादश्यां जगत्पतिम् । तृतीयायां च यः पश्येन्मुक्त एव स मानवः ३५। प्रविशेद्यस्तु मनुजो महास्नानं जगत्पतेः । तस्य सिद्ध्यंति विप्रर्षे सर्व एव मनोरथाः ३६। ब्रह्माद्यास्त्रिदशाः सर्वे स्थित्वाकाशे जगत्पतेः । महास्नानं प्रपश्यंति भक्तिभावसमन्विताः ३७। महाज्येष्ठ्यां च विप्रर्षे जगन्नाथमनामयम् । आलोक्य लभते मर्त्यो विष्णोस्तत्परमं पदम् ३८। गुंडिकामण्डपं यांतमाषाढे कमलापतिम् । बलभद्रं च यः पश्येत्स मुक्तो नात्र संशयः ३९। यः पश्यति जगन्नाथं रथस्थं कमलेक्षणम् । तस्य नास्ति पुनर्जन्म संसारे सर्वदुःखदे ४०। रथारूढां सुभद्रां च भक्त्या पश्यंति मानवाः । छिनत्ति भगवांस्तस्य दुःखदं भवबंधनम् ४१। अपुत्रा मृतपुत्रा च या सुभद्रां प्रपश्यति । बह्वपत्या जीववत्सा सा नारी भवति द्विज ४२। दुर्भगा काकवंध्या वा सुभद्रां या प्रपश्यति । सा स्वामिसुभगा नारी बह्वपत्या भवेत्खलु ४३। गुंडिकामंडपस्थं च कृष्णं पश्यति यः पुमान् । बलभद्रं सुभद्रां च स याति परमं पदम् ४४। रोगी दुःखी च यः पश्येद्गुण्डिकामंडपे हरिम् । रोगाच्छोकाच्च सहसा जैमिने स प्रमुच्यते ४५। यस्त्वपुत्रो जगन्नाथं गुंडिकामण्डपे स्थितम् । पश्येत्स च द्विजश्रेष्ठ पुत्रं प्राप्नोति वैष्णवम् ४६। विद्यार्थी लभते विद्यां धनार्थी लभते धनम् । दारार्थी लभते दारान्मोक्षार्थी मोक्षमाप्नुयात् ४७। भ्रष्टराज्यो नृपो यस्तु हरिं पश्यति भक्तितः । गुंडिकामंडपे विप्र निजराज्यं लभेत सः ४८। शत्रुभिर्वर्जितो यस्तु गुंडिकामंडपे हरिम् । भक्त्या पश्यति विप्रर्षे तस्य नश्यंति शत्रवः ४९। गुंडिकामंडपे पश्येद्यो राजपीडितो भृशम् । स सद्य एव राजानं स्वकीयं वशमानयेत् ५० 7.18.50। सर्वासामेव यात्राणां गुंडिका प्रवरा मता । तस्मात्स मानवैः कार्या त्यक्त्वा कार्यशतान्यपि ५१। शयने च तथोत्थाने तस्मिन्क्षेत्रे मनोरमे । हरिं पश्यति यो मर्त्यः स देवैरपि पूज्यते ५२। पुरुषोत्तममाहात्म्यं वक्तुं शक्नोति कः क्षितौ । यस्य प्रवेशमात्रेण नरो नारायणो भवेत् ५३। बहुनात्र किमुक्तेन संक्षेपादुच्यते मया । सर्वेषामेव तीर्थानां वरिष्ठं पुरुषोत्तमम् ५४। संसारसिन्धुमतिनिम्नमिमं तितीर्षुः क्लेशप्रदं विषमपापगणाश्रयं यः । क्षेत्रे समस्तसुखदे पुरुषोत्तमाख्ये पश्येदमुं सुरवरं पुरुषोत्तमं च ५५। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे क्रियायोगसारे पुरुषोत्तममाहत्म्यंनाम अष्टादशोऽध्यायः १८ ।

jaiminiruvāca- tīrthaśreṣṭhamiti proktaṃ yattvayā puruṣottamam | tanmāhātmyaṃ guro brūhi yadi te mayyanugrahaḥ 1| vyāsa uvāca- puruṣottamasya māhātmyaṃ samāsena śṛṇu dvija | samyagvaktuṃ jagatyasminkaḥ śakto viṣṇunā vinā 2| lavaṇāṃbhonidhestīraṃ puruṣottamasaṃjñitam | puraṃ tadbrāhmaṇaśreṣṭha svargādapi ca durllabham 3| svayamasti pure tasminyataḥ śrīpuruṣottamaḥ | puruṣottamamityuktaṃ tasmāttannāmakovidaiḥ 4| kṣetraṃ taddurllabhaṃ vipra samaṃtāddaśayojanam | tatrasthadehino devairdṛśyaṃte ca caturbhujāḥ 5| praviśanvai tu tatkṣetraṃ sarve syurviṣṇumūrtayaḥ | tasmādvicāraṇā tatra na karttavyā vicakṣaṇaiḥ 6| cāṇḍālenāpi saṃspṛṣṭaṃ grāhyaṃ tatrānnamagrajaiḥ | sākṣādviṣṇuryatastatra cāṇḍālo dvijasattama 7| tatrānnapācikā lakṣmīḥ svayaṃ bhoktā janārddanaḥ | tasmāttatraudanaṃ vipra daivatairapi durllabham 8| haribhuktāvaśiṣṭaṃ yatpavitraṃ bhuvi durllabham | annaṃ ye bhuñjate lokāsteṣāṃ muktirna durllabhā 9| brahmādyāstridaśāḥ sarve tadannamatidurllabham | bhuñjate nityamāgatya mānuṣāṇāṃ ca kā kathā 10| na yasya ramate cittaṃ tasminnanne sudurllabhe | tameva viṣṇudveṣṭāraṃ prāhuḥ sarvamaharṣayaḥ 11| pavitraṃ bhuvi sarvatra yathā gaṅgājalaṃ dvija | tathā pavitraṃ sarvatra tadannaṃ pāpanāśanam 12| tadannaṃ komalaṃ divyaṃ yadyapi dvijasattama | kṛkacasyodaraprāyaṃ tathāpyaghavidāraṇe 13| pūrvārjitāni pāpāni kṣayaṃ yāsyaṃti yasya vai | bhaktiḥ pravartate yasya tasminnanne sudurllabhe 14| bahujanmārjitaṃ puṇyaṃ yasya yāsyati saṃkṣayam | tasminnanne dvijaśreṣṭha tasya bhaktirna jāyate 15| indradyumnasya sarasi mārkaṃḍeyahrade tathā | rohiṇyāṃ ca samudre ca śvetagaṅgājaleṣu ca 16| snānaṃ ye kurvate martyā bhaktibhāvasamanvitāḥ | teṣāṃ na vidyate janma punarasminmahītale 17| lavaṇāṃbhonidhestoyaiḥ pitarastarpitā dvija | sarvaduḥkhavinirmuktā vrajaṃti harimaṃdiram 18| tīrtharājaḥ samudro 'sau kīrtitastatvadarśibhiḥ | tasmāttatra kṛtaṃ karma sarvamevākṣayaṃ bhavet 19| pitrarcanaṃ tathā dānaṃ bhagavaccaraṇārcanam | japa yajñaṃ tathānyacca tasminkṣetre manorame 20| yatkarma kurute martyo viṣṇuprīṇanahetave | sarvamevākṣayaṃ tacca bhavennāstyatra saṃśayaḥ 21| balabhadraṃ subhadrāṃ ca kṛṣṇaṃ ca kamalekṣaṇam | ye mānavāḥ prapaśyaṃti teṣāṃ kiṃcinna durllabham 22| adṛṣṭvā śrījagannāthaṃ subhadrāṃ ca balaṃ tathā | mokṣaṃ na labhate martyaḥ kurvanpuṇyaśatānyapi 23| tatra vetraprahāreṇa śarīraṃ yasya lohitam | taṃ vaṃdaṃte dvijaśreṣṭha devāḥ śakrādayo'khilāḥ 24| sthitvāṃtarikṣe śakrādyāḥ sarvadevagaṇā dvija | vimānacāriṇo'nyonyaṃ pravadaṃtīti harṣitāḥ 25aṃ| kadā mānuṣyamasmabhyaṃ dāsyate kamalāpatiḥ | manuṣya iva gacchāmastadā draṣṭuṃ hariṃ prabhum 26| kadā vetraprahāreṇa kṣetre śrīpuruṣottame | bhaviṣyaṃtyasmadīyāni lohitāni vapūṃṣi ca 27| vāsavādyāḥ surāḥ sarve tasminkṣetre varaprade | sadā vetraprahārāṃśca vāṃchaṃti dvijasattama 28| tatrākṣayavaṭaṃ ye tu bhaktyā paśyaṃti mānavāḥ | koṭijanmārjitaiḥ pāpairmuktā yāṃti parāṃ gatim 29| subhadrāṃ balabhadraṃ ca jagannāthamanāmayam | śvetaṃ mādhavadeveśaṃ mārkaṃḍeyahradaṃ tathā 30| jyāmeśvaraṃ hanūmaṃtaṃ tatrākṣayyaṃ vaṭaṃ dvija | paśyaṃti bhaktyā ye martyāsteṣāṃ muktirhi śāśvatī 31| dolāyamānaṃ govindaṃ phālgunemāsi tatra ye | paśyaṃti mānavā bhaktyā teṣāṃ puṇyaṃ niśāmaya 32| vimuktāḥ sakalaiḥ pāpairaṃte yāṃti harergṛham | jñānaṃ saṃprāpya tatraiva mokṣaṃ yāṃti sudurllabham 33| cetrake māsi vāruṇyāṃ yo jagannāthamīkṣate | sa mṛtaḥ praviśeddehaṃ jagannāthasya jaimine 34| vaiśākhe caiva śuklāyāmekādaśyāṃ jagatpatim | tṛtīyāyāṃ ca yaḥ paśyenmukta eva sa mānavaḥ 35| praviśedyastu manujo mahāsnānaṃ jagatpateḥ | tasya siddhyaṃti viprarṣe sarva eva manorathāḥ 36| brahmādyāstridaśāḥ sarve sthitvākāśe jagatpateḥ | mahāsnānaṃ prapaśyaṃti bhaktibhāvasamanvitāḥ 37| mahājyeṣṭhyāṃ ca viprarṣe jagannāthamanāmayam | ālokya labhate martyo viṣṇostatparamaṃ padam 38| guṃḍikāmaṇḍapaṃ yāṃtamāṣāḍhe kamalāpatim | balabhadraṃ ca yaḥ paśyetsa mukto nātra saṃśayaḥ 39| yaḥ paśyati jagannāthaṃ rathasthaṃ kamalekṣaṇam | tasya nāsti punarjanma saṃsāre sarvaduḥkhade 40| rathārūḍhāṃ subhadrāṃ ca bhaktyā paśyaṃti mānavāḥ | chinatti bhagavāṃstasya duḥkhadaṃ bhavabaṃdhanam 41| aputrā mṛtaputrā ca yā subhadrāṃ prapaśyati | bahvapatyā jīvavatsā sā nārī bhavati dvija 42| durbhagā kākavaṃdhyā vā subhadrāṃ yā prapaśyati | sā svāmisubhagā nārī bahvapatyā bhavetkhalu 43| guṃḍikāmaṃḍapasthaṃ ca kṛṣṇaṃ paśyati yaḥ pumān | balabhadraṃ subhadrāṃ ca sa yāti paramaṃ padam 44| rogī duḥkhī ca yaḥ paśyedguṇḍikāmaṃḍape harim | rogācchokācca sahasā jaimine sa pramucyate 45| yastvaputro jagannāthaṃ guṃḍikāmaṇḍape sthitam | paśyetsa ca dvijaśreṣṭha putraṃ prāpnoti vaiṣṇavam 46| vidyārthī labhate vidyāṃ dhanārthī labhate dhanam | dārārthī labhate dārānmokṣārthī mokṣamāpnuyāt 47| bhraṣṭarājyo nṛpo yastu hariṃ paśyati bhaktitaḥ | guṃḍikāmaṃḍape vipra nijarājyaṃ labheta saḥ 48| śatrubhirvarjito yastu guṃḍikāmaṃḍape harim | bhaktyā paśyati viprarṣe tasya naśyaṃti śatravaḥ 49| guṃḍikāmaṃḍape paśyedyo rājapīḍito bhṛśam | sa sadya eva rājānaṃ svakīyaṃ vaśamānayet 50 7.18.50| sarvāsāmeva yātrāṇāṃ guṃḍikā pravarā matā | tasmātsa mānavaiḥ kāryā tyaktvā kāryaśatānyapi 51| śayane ca tathotthāne tasminkṣetre manorame | hariṃ paśyati yo martyaḥ sa devairapi pūjyate 52| puruṣottamamāhātmyaṃ vaktuṃ śaknoti kaḥ kṣitau | yasya praveśamātreṇa naro nārāyaṇo bhavet 53| bahunātra kimuktena saṃkṣepāducyate mayā | sarveṣāmeva tīrthānāṃ variṣṭhaṃ puruṣottamam 54| saṃsārasindhumatinimnamimaṃ titīrṣuḥ kleśapradaṃ viṣamapāpagaṇāśrayaṃ yaḥ | kṣetre samastasukhade puruṣottamākhye paśyedamuṃ suravaraṃ puruṣottamaṃ ca 55| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe kriyāyogasāre puruṣottamamāhatmyaṃnāma aṣṭādaśo'dhyāyaḥ 18 |

English translation

Jaimini said :

1. O preceptor, if you favour me, then tell me about the greatness of Puruṣottama which you said to be the greatest holy place.

Vyāsa said :

2-6. O brāhmaṇa , listen to the greatness of Puruṣottama (told by me) in brief. Who else but Viṣṇu is able to tell it in the world? O best brāhmaṇa, the city called Puruṣottama is (situated) on the shore of the Lavaṇa sea (the Salt-sea), and it is more difficult to be reached than even heaven. Since Śrī Puruṣottama (i.e. Viṣṇu) lives in that city, therefore those who are conversant with the name have called it Puruṣottama. O brāhmaṇa, that rare holy place is ten yojanas (in area) on all sides. The men living there are seen to have four arms by gods. Whileentering the holy place, all would have the form of Viṣṇu. Therefore, the wise should raise no doubt about it.

7-9. O best brāhmaṇa, since Viṣṇu is a cāṇḍāla there, the food of (i.e. offered by) cāṇḍālas should be accepted by brāhmaṇas (at that holy place). There Lakṣmī cooks the food, and Viṣṇu himself eats (it). Therefore, O brāhmaṇa, the boiled rice there is difficult to be had even by deities. For those men who eat the pure food left over after it is eaten by Viṣṇu, salvation is not difficult to be had.

10-11. All gods like Brahmā everyday come (there) and eat that food which is very difficult to be had. Then what can be said about human beings? All great sages call him the hater of Viṣṇu, whose mind does not take delight in that food which is very difficult to be had.

12-19. O brāhmaṇa, as the water of Gaṅgā is pure everywhere, in the same way that food, destroying sins, is pure everywhere. O best brāhmaṇa, though that food is delicate, divine, and of the size of a partridge’s belly, it is capable of removing sins. The sins committed formerly of (i.e. by) him whose devotion proceeds to that food, very difficult to obtain, perish. O best brāhmaṇa, he whose religious merit earned in many existences perishes, does not develop devotion for that food. Those mortals, full of devotion, who bathe in the lake of Indradyumna , in the large and deep pool of Mārkaṇḍeya , in Rohiṇī , in the sea, so also in the water of Śvetagaṅgā, are not reborn on this earth. O brāhmaṇa, the dead ancestors gratified with the water of the Salt-sea, are free from all afflictions, and go to Viṣṇu’s abode. The wise ones have declared this sea to be the king of holy places. Therefore, every act done there would be inexhaustible.

20-25. There is no doubt that whatever act—honouring dead ancestors, giving gifts, worshipping the feet of the lord, muttering prayers, or any other act which a man performs in that charming holy place Viṣṇu would be fully inexhaustible. Those men who see (the idols of) Balabhadra , Subhadrā , and lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa , have nothing that is difficult to be got. A man, even performing hundreds of acts of religious merit, does not get liberation without seeing (the idols of) Śrī Jagannātha , Subhadrā and Bala ( rāma ). O best brāhmaṇa, all gods like Indra salute him whose body has become red due to stroke(s) of cane there. O brāhmaṇa, all hosts of gods like Indra, remaining in the atmosphere and moving in aeroplanes, and being very delighted speak like this to one another:

26-28. ‘When will Lakṣmī’s lord give us the existence of a man? Then like a man we shall go to see lord Viṣṇu. When will our bodies be red due to the stroke(s) of cane in that holy place Śrī Puruṣottama?’ O best brāhmaṇa, all gods like Indra always long for the stroke(s) of cane in that holy place, granting boons.

29-32. Those men who see there the Akṣaya Vaṭa (the inexhaustible fig-tree) with devotion, are freed from sins committed during crores of existences, and go to the highest position. The liberation of those who see (the idols of) Subhadra , Balabhadra, Jagannātha, Anāmaya (i.e. Kṛṣṇa), the white Mādhava —the lord of gods, so also the deep and large pool of Markaṇḍeya, Jyāmeśvara, Hanūmat, the Akṣaya Vaṭa with devotion, is eternal. Listen to the religious merit of those men who there see Govinda rocked to and fro in a swing in the month of Phālguna .

33-38. Freed from all sins they go to Viṣṇu’s abode in the end. Having obtained knowledge there only, they attain beatitude, very difficult to be secured. O Jaimini , he who sees Jagannātha in the west in the month of Caitra , would enter Viṣṇu’s body after he is dead. That man who would see the lord of the world on the Ekādaśī of the bright half of Caitra, so also on the Tṛtīyā , is surely liberated. O brāhmaṇa sage, all the desires of that man who would enter (the place of) the great bath of the lord of the world, are fulfilled, in the sky. All gods like Brahmā, remain in the sky, and full of devotion, observe the great bath of the lord of the world. O brāhmaṇa sage, a mortal on seeing (the idol of) Viṣṇu, the lord of the world, on the great full-moon day, obtains that highest position of Viṣṇu.

39-41. There is no doubt that he who would see (the idols of) Lakṣmī’s lord and Balabhadra going to the Guṇḍikā- maṇḍapa (the pavilion called Guṇḍikā) in Āṣāḍha , is liberated. He who sees (the idol of) the lotus-eyed lord of the world seated in a chariot, does not get rebirth in the mundane existence, giving every (kind of) affliction. The lord cuts off the painful bond of the worldly existence of those men who devoutly see (the idol of) Subhadrā mounted on a chariot.

42. O brāhmaṇa, that woman who is sonless, or whose son is dead and who sees (the idol of) Subhadrā, has many children, and her children live (long).

43-55. An unfortunate lady (deserted by her husband) that has but one child would indeed become fortunate in the matter of her lord and would have many children. That man who sees (the idol of) Kṛṣṇa that is in the Guṇḍikā-maṇḍapa, so also (those of) Balabhadra and Subhadrā, goes to the highest position. O Jaimini, a sick person or an unhappy person who would see (the idol of) Viṣṇu in the Guṇḍikā-maṇḍapa, is instantly free from the disease or the affliction. O best brāhmaṇa, he who, being sonless, would see (the idol of) Viṣṇu that is in the Guṇḍikā-maṇḍapa, would obtain a son who is Viṣṇu’s devotee. One desiring knowledge gets it. One longing for wealth obtains it. One wanting a wife gets her. One desiring liberation would get it. O brāhmaṇa, that king who is deprived of his kingdom and who sees with devotion (the idol of) Viṣṇu in the Guṇḍikā-maṇḍapa gets it (back). The enemies of him who, troubled by his enemies, devoutly sees (the idol of) Viṣṇu in the Guṇḍikā-maṇḍapa, perish, O brāhmaṇa sage. He who, very much harrassed by the king, sees (the idol of) Viṣṇu in the Guṇḍikā-maṇḍapa, would instantly bring the king under his control. Of all pilgrimages the one to Guṇḍikā is said to be the best. Therefore, even by abandoning hundreds of other activities, men should undertake it. That man who in that charming holy city sees Viṣṇu at the time of going to bed or getting up, is honoured even by gods. On the earth who can describe the importance of Puruṣottama, by entering which (holy place) a man would become Viṣṇu? What is the use of prolixity? I tell in brief: Of all holy places Puruṣottama is the best. He who desires to cross this ocean of worldly existence, which is very deep, which causes pain, which is the resort of dangerous hosts of sins, should see Viṣṇu, the best of gods, in the holy place called Puruṣottama, giving all pleasure.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 45203, revision 336766 (2022-04-27T03:49:09Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365859.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.