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Chapter 150

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Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 150

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महादेवउवाच। जंबूतीर्थं ततो गच्छेत्स्नानार्थं पापनाशनम् । कलिकाले च यत्पुंसां स्वर्गसोपानवत्स्थितम् १। यत्र जांबवता पूर्वं दशांगे पर्वतोत्तमे । स्थापितं ऋक्षराजेशं लिगं सुरगणार्चितम् २। रामेण हि यदा पूर्वं हतो वै रावणोऽसुरः । तदा जांबवता दिक्षु भेरीघोषैः प्रघोषितम् ३। जितं वै रामचंद्रेण रावणो निहतो रणे । लब्ध्वा सीतेति संघुष्य स्नातं तीर्थवरे शुभे ४। स्थापितं तत्र लिंगं तु स्वनाम्ना तु सुरेश्वरि । तत्र स्नात्वा नरः सद्यः स्मृत्वा रामं सहानुजम् ५। जाबवंतेश्वरं स्नात्वा रुद्रलोके महीयते । यत्रयत्र हि भो देवि श्रीरामस्मरणं कृतम् । भवबंधविमोक्षो हि दृश्यते स चराचरे ६। अहं रामस्तु विज्ञेयो रामो वै रुद्र एव च । एवं ज्ञात्वा तु ते देवि न भेदो वर्तते क्वचित् ७। रामरामेति रामेति मनसा ये जपंति च । तेषां सर्वार्थसिद्धिश्च भविष्यति युगेयुगे ८। अहं हि सर्वदा देवि श्रीरामस्मरणं चरे । यं श्रुत्वा तु पुनर्देवि न भवो जायते क्वचित् ९। काश्यां हि निवसन्नित्यं श्रीरामं कमलेक्षणम् । स्मरामि सततं देवि भक्त्या च विधिपूर्वकम् १०। जांबवता तदा पूर्वं स्मृत्वा रामं सुशोभनम् । जांबवंतमिति ख्यातं प्रस्थाप्य जगतां गुरुम् ११। तत्र स्नात्वा च भुक्त्वा च कृत्वा देवस्य पूजनम् । शिवलोकमवाप्नोति यावदिंद्राश्चतुर्दश १२। अत्र हि स्नानमात्रेण यथा जांबवतो बलम् । तथा वै बलमाप्नोति श्रीविश्वेशप्रसादतः १३। अत्र गत्वा तु भूदानं पुमान्यश्च करोति वै । फलं सहस्रगुणितं जांबवंतेश दर्शनात् १४। इति श्रीपाद्मे महापुराणे पंचपंचाशत्साहस्र्यां संहितायामुत्तरखंडे उमामहेश्वरसंवादे जांबवततीर्थमाहात्म्यंनाम पंचाशदधिकशततमोऽध्यायः १५०।

mahādevauvāca| jaṃbūtīrthaṃ tato gacchetsnānārthaṃ pāpanāśanam | kalikāle ca yatpuṃsāṃ svargasopānavatsthitam 1| yatra jāṃbavatā pūrvaṃ daśāṃge parvatottame | sthāpitaṃ ṛkṣarājeśaṃ ligaṃ suragaṇārcitam 2| rāmeṇa hi yadā pūrvaṃ hato vai rāvaṇo'suraḥ | tadā jāṃbavatā dikṣu bherīghoṣaiḥ praghoṣitam 3| jitaṃ vai rāmacaṃdreṇa rāvaṇo nihato raṇe | labdhvā sīteti saṃghuṣya snātaṃ tīrthavare śubhe 4| sthāpitaṃ tatra liṃgaṃ tu svanāmnā tu sureśvari | tatra snātvā naraḥ sadyaḥ smṛtvā rāmaṃ sahānujam 5| jābavaṃteśvaraṃ snātvā rudraloke mahīyate | yatrayatra hi bho devi śrīrāmasmaraṇaṃ kṛtam | bhavabaṃdhavimokṣo hi dṛśyate sa carācare 6| ahaṃ rāmastu vijñeyo rāmo vai rudra eva ca | evaṃ jñātvā tu te devi na bhedo vartate kvacit 7| rāmarāmeti rāmeti manasā ye japaṃti ca | teṣāṃ sarvārthasiddhiśca bhaviṣyati yugeyuge 8| ahaṃ hi sarvadā devi śrīrāmasmaraṇaṃ care | yaṃ śrutvā tu punardevi na bhavo jāyate kvacit 9| kāśyāṃ hi nivasannityaṃ śrīrāmaṃ kamalekṣaṇam | smarāmi satataṃ devi bhaktyā ca vidhipūrvakam 10| jāṃbavatā tadā pūrvaṃ smṛtvā rāmaṃ suśobhanam | jāṃbavaṃtamiti khyātaṃ prasthāpya jagatāṃ gurum 11| tatra snātvā ca bhuktvā ca kṛtvā devasya pūjanam | śivalokamavāpnoti yāvadiṃdrāścaturdaśa 12| atra hi snānamātreṇa yathā jāṃbavato balam | tathā vai balamāpnoti śrīviśveśaprasādataḥ 13| atra gatvā tu bhūdānaṃ pumānyaśca karoti vai | phalaṃ sahasraguṇitaṃ jāṃbavaṃteśa darśanāt 14| iti śrīpādme mahāpurāṇe paṃcapaṃcāśatsāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṃḍe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde jāṃbavatatīrthamāhātmyaṃnāma paṃcāśadadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 150|

English translation

Mahādeva said :

1-14. From there a man should go to Jambūtīrtha, the destroyer of sins, for a bath, which has become like a staircase in the Kali -age. Here formerly Jāmbavat established on Daśāṅga —the best mountain—Phallus Ṛkṣarājeśa, worshipped by hosts of gods. When formerly Rāma killed the demon Rāvaṇa . Jāmbavat proclaimed with the sounds of drums ‘ Rāmacandra has won; Rāvaṇa is killed in the war. Sītā is (re-)secured.’ Having proclaimed like this, he bathed in the auspicious holy place. O chief goddess, with his own name he installed a Phallus there. A man having bathed there and instantly remembering Rāma with his younger brother is honoured in Rudra ’s heaven. O goddess, wherever Rāma is remembered, there freedom from the bondage of the worldly existence is noticed in the mobile and immobile (world). I should be known to be Rāma, and Rāma as Rudra only. Having realised like this, O goddess, no difference exists between (Rāma and me). In every age they who mentally mutter ‘Rāma, Rāma, Rāma’, obtain all objects. O goddess, I always remember Rāma, having heard (the name of) whom, there would never be rebirth. O goddess, living in Kāśī , I always remember the lotus-eyed Rāma with devotion and according to the sacred precept. Formerly Jāmbavat remembered that very handsome Rāma, and installed the lord of the worlds known as Jāmbavat. Having bathed, eaten and worshipped the deity there, a man obtains (and lives in) Śiva ’s heaven till the fourteen Indras (rule). Merely by bathing here a man obtains strength like that of Jāmbavat due to the grace of Śrī Viśveśvara . A man who having gone here, makes a gift of land, gets a thousandfold fruit on seeing Jāmbavateśa.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 17690, revision 336574 (2022-04-24T16:00:54Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365729.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.