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Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 164

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महादेव उवाच। अत्र तीर्थं महच्चान्यत्कश्यपाख्यं सुरेश्वरि । यत्र ह्रदो महानासीन्नगदेव विनिर्मितः १। तत्र कुशेश्वरो नाम देवो यत्र विराजते । यत्र कुंडं तथा रम्यं कश्यपेन विनिर्मितम् २। तत्र स्नात्वा तु भो देवि न नरो निरयं व्रजेत् । अग्निहोत्रकरा विप्रा नित्यं वेदपरायणाः ३। निवसंति महदेवि काश्यपायां बहुश्रुताः । यथा काशी तथा चेयं नगरी ऋषिनिर्मिता ४। काश्यपेन यतश्चात्र तप्तं बहुतरं तपः । गंगा वै तपसा येन आनीतेशजटोद्भवा ५। सा गंगा काश्यपी देवि महापातकनाशिनी । यस्या दर्शनमात्रेण मुच्यंते दुष्टकिल्बिषात् ६। गोदानं च प्रशंसंति रथदानं तथैव च । श्राद्धं कृत्वा तु तत्रैव दानं देयं प्रयत्नतः ७। कलौ युगे तथा घोरे महापातकनाशनम् । कश्यपाख्यं समं तीर्थं न भूतं न भविष्यति ८। यत्र वै देवताः सर्वा ऋषयो वीतकल्मषाः । नित्यं तिष्ठंति देवेशि तीर्थराजप्रसादतः ९।

mahādeva uvāca| atra tīrthaṃ mahaccānyatkaśyapākhyaṃ sureśvari | yatra hrado mahānāsīnnagadeva vinirmitaḥ 1| tatra kuśeśvaro nāma devo yatra virājate | yatra kuṃḍaṃ tathā ramyaṃ kaśyapena vinirmitam 2| tatra snātvā tu bho devi na naro nirayaṃ vrajet | agnihotrakarā viprā nityaṃ vedaparāyaṇāḥ 3| nivasaṃti mahadevi kāśyapāyāṃ bahuśrutāḥ | yathā kāśī tathā ceyaṃ nagarī ṛṣinirmitā 4| kāśyapena yataścātra taptaṃ bahutaraṃ tapaḥ | gaṃgā vai tapasā yena ānīteśajaṭodbhavā 5| sā gaṃgā kāśyapī devi mahāpātakanāśinī | yasyā darśanamātreṇa mucyaṃte duṣṭakilbiṣāt 6| godānaṃ ca praśaṃsaṃti rathadānaṃ tathaiva ca | śrāddhaṃ kṛtvā tu tatraiva dānaṃ deyaṃ prayatnataḥ 7| kalau yuge tathā ghore mahāpātakanāśanam | kaśyapākhyaṃ samaṃ tīrthaṃ na bhūtaṃ na bhaviṣyati 8| yatra vai devatāḥ sarvā ṛṣayo vītakalmaṣāḥ | nityaṃ tiṣṭhaṃti deveśi tīrtharājaprasādataḥ 9|

English translation

Mahādeva said :

1-9. O chief goddess, here there was another holy place called Kaśyapa , where there was a great pool made by Nāgadeva . The god named Kuśeśvara shines there; so also there is a charming pool fashioned by Kaśyapa. O goddess, a man having bathed there would not go to hell. O great goddess, brāhmaṇas maintaining the holy fire and devoted to the daily recital of the Veda and very learned, live on (the bank of) Kāśyapā. As is Kāśī , so is this city built by sages. Kaśyapa practised severe penance here, and brought Gaṅgā springing from the matted hair of the lord. O goddess, that Gaṅgā is (called) Kāśyapī , destroying great sins, merely seeing which men are freed from a wicked sin. They recommend (here) the gift of a cow, so also the gift of a chariot. Having performed a śrāddha a man should, with effort, give a gift there. A holy place destroying a great sin like Kaśyapa was never there, nor will be there, in the fearful Kali age. O chief goddess, all deities and sages with their sins vanished, always remain (here) by the grace of the chief of holy places.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 31428, revision 334300 (2022-03-31T02:15:53Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365743.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.