Uttara-khaṇḍa · Chapter 173
Sourceमहादेव उवाच। दुर्गया संगता यत्र देवि साभ्रमती नदी । संगमः सागरेणाथ स्नानं तत्र समाचरेत् १। वीतदोषा भविष्यंति कलौ वै नात्र संशयः । तत्र श्राद्धं प्रकर्त्तव्यं दुर्गया संगमे तथा २। तत्र गत्वा विशेषेण ब्राह्मणानां च भोजनम् । दानं गोमहिषीणां च कर्तव्यं विधिपूर्वकम् ३। इयं धन्या धन्यतमा पवित्रा पापनाशिनी । यां दृष्ट्वा चापि भो देवि मुच्यते पातकैर्नरः ४। यथा गंगा तथा चेयं ज्ञेया साभ्रमती नदी । कलौ देवि विशेषेण बहुकालफलप्रदा ५। यदि चेच्छतशो जिह्वा मुखे वै मामके सति । तस्या अपि न शक्नोमि गुणान्वक्तुं कदाचन ६। इति श्रीपाद्मे महापुराणे पंचपंचाशत्साहस्र्यां संहितायामुत्तरखंडे उमामहेश्वरसंवादे साभ्रमतीमाहात्म्यंनाम त्रिसप्तत्यधिकशततमोऽध्यायः १७३।
mahādeva uvāca| durgayā saṃgatā yatra devi sābhramatī nadī | saṃgamaḥ sāgareṇātha snānaṃ tatra samācaret 1| vītadoṣā bhaviṣyaṃti kalau vai nātra saṃśayaḥ | tatra śrāddhaṃ prakarttavyaṃ durgayā saṃgame tathā 2| tatra gatvā viśeṣeṇa brāhmaṇānāṃ ca bhojanam | dānaṃ gomahiṣīṇāṃ ca kartavyaṃ vidhipūrvakam 3| iyaṃ dhanyā dhanyatamā pavitrā pāpanāśinī | yāṃ dṛṣṭvā cāpi bho devi mucyate pātakairnaraḥ 4| yathā gaṃgā tathā ceyaṃ jñeyā sābhramatī nadī | kalau devi viśeṣeṇa bahukālaphalapradā 5| yadi cecchataśo jihvā mukhe vai māmake sati | tasyā api na śaknomi guṇānvaktuṃ kadācana 6| iti śrīpādme mahāpurāṇe paṃcapaṃcāśatsāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāmuttarakhaṃḍe umāmaheśvarasaṃvāde sābhramatīmāhātmyaṃnāma trisaptatyadhikaśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ 173|
English translation
Mahādeva said :
1-6. One should bathe there where that river Sābhramatī has joined Durgā and the ocean, O goddess. (Such men) become free from blemishes in this Kali age. There is no doubt about this. A man should perform a śrāddha at the confluence of Durgā. Having gone there, one should especially feed brāhmaṇas and offer (them) cows, buffaloes. This (river) is blessed, most blessed, pure and destroyer of sins, seeing which, O goddess, a man is freed from sins. This river Sābhramatī should be known as Gaṅgā . O goddess, in the Kali age she especially gives fruits for a long time. Even if there were hundreds of tongues in my mouth I shall not be able to describe her merits.
Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 44897, revision 334290 (2022-03-31T02:02:45Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365752.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.