Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 170
Sourceमहादेव उवाच। अत्र तीर्थात्परं तीर्थं सङ्गमाख्यमिति श्रुतम् । अत्र साभ्रमती गंगा मिलिता सागरेण तु १। तत्र स्नानं च दानं च कर्तव्यं विधिपूर्वकम् । यत्र स्नात्वा तु मुच्यंते महापातकिनोऽपि ये २। तत्र श्राद्धं प्रकर्तव्यं स्वानां च हितमिच्छता । यत्र वै तु कृते श्राद्धे पितृलोके वसेद्ध्रुवम् ३। यत्र वै सागरो देवो नित्यं मिलति गंगया । ब्रह्महा तत्र मुच्येत किमन्यैरितरैरघैः ४। यत्र तीर्थं न जानंति लोका वै मंदबुद्धयः । तदा वै मम नाम्ना च कर्तव्यं तीर्थमुत्तमम् ५। इति श्रीपाद्मे महापुराणे पंचपंचाशत्साहस्र्यां संहितायामुत्तरखंडे सङ्गमतीर्थंनाम सप्तत्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः १७०।
mahādeva uvāca| atra tīrthātparaṃ tīrthaṃ saṅgamākhyamiti śrutam | atra sābhramatī gaṃgā militā sāgareṇa tu 1| tatra snānaṃ ca dānaṃ ca kartavyaṃ vidhipūrvakam | yatra snātvā tu mucyaṃte mahāpātakino'pi ye 2| tatra śrāddhaṃ prakartavyaṃ svānāṃ ca hitamicchatā | yatra vai tu kṛte śrāddhe pitṛloke vaseddhruvam 3| yatra vai sāgaro devo nityaṃ milati gaṃgayā | brahmahā tatra mucyeta kimanyairitarairaghaiḥ 4| yatra tīrthaṃ na jānaṃti lokā vai maṃdabuddhayaḥ | tadā vai mama nāmnā ca kartavyaṃ tīrthamuttamam 5| iti śrīpādme mahāpurāṇe paṃcapaṃcāśatsāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṃḍe saṅgamatīrthaṃnāma saptatyadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 170|
English translation
Mahādeva said :
1-5. A holy place superior to this holy place is called Saṅgama . Here that Sābhramatī Gaṅgā has joined the ocean. A man should bathe and give gifts there. Having bathed here, even those who are great sinners, get salvation. One desiring the good of his kinsmen, should offer a śrāddha there. When a śrāddha is performed here, the man would certainly live in the world of the dead ancestors. At that place where god Sāgara (i.e. the divine Ocean) always joins Gaṅgā, (even) the murderer of a brāhmaṇa is freed. Then what to say of other sinners? When dull-witted men do not know about the holy place there, then a holy place in my name should be fashioned.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 44894, revision 334293 (2022-03-31T02:06:37Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365749.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.