{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe07/sbe07087.htm","path":"hin/sbe07/sbe07087.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe07/sbe07087.htm","text":"1. A Sr\u00e2ddha offered at the (T\u00eertha or place of pilgrimage called) Pushkaras confers eternal bliss upon the giver;\n2. And so does the muttering of prayers, the offering of burnt-oblations, and the practice of austerities in that place.\n3. Even by merely bathing at Pushkara he is purified from all his sins.\n4. The same effect may be produced at Gay\u00e2s\u00eersha;\n5. And near Vata (Akshayavata);\n6. And on the Amarakantaka mountain;\n7. And on the Var\u00e2ha mountain;\n[LXXXV. 1. Pushkara, according to the common acceptation of the term, is the name of a celebrated place of pilgrimage near Agm\u00eer, the modern Pokur. See Lassen, Indian Antiquities, I, 113. Nand. quotes a Smriti passage to the effect that there are three Pushkaras, and a passage of the Mah\u00e2bh\u00e2rata, in which it is stated that one Pushkara is sacred to Brahman, another to Vishnu, and a third to Rudra.\n3. Nand. asserts with regard to the use of the name Pushkara in the singular number in this S\u00fbtra, that it means even a single bath has the consequence here mentioned.\n4. Gay\u00e2s\u00eersha is the name of a mountain near Gay\u00e2 in Bih\u00e2r, a celebrated place of pilgrimage. Compare Y\u00e2g\u00f1avalkya I, 260.\n5. There exists one Akshayavata in Bih\u00e2r (Nand.) and another in Pray\u00e2ga (Allahabad). The 'undecaying banyan-tree' (Aksbay Bat) is an object of worship at Allahabad even now, and was so already in the times of Hwen Thsang. See Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, p. 389; St. Julien, Voyages des P\u00e8lerins Bouddhistes, II, 278.\n6. Nand. states that both the T\u00eertha called Amarakantaka on the Mekal\u00e2 mountain in the Vindhya range and the whole mountain of that name are meant.\n7. 'This is a certain boar shaped mountain.' (Nand.) It seems very probable that the T\u00eertha of B\u00e2ram\u00fbla, the ancient Var\u00e2ham\u00fbla {footnote p. 257} in Kasm\u00eer, is meant. See B\u00fchler, Kasm\u00eer Report, p. 12, where a 'Var\u00e2ha hill' is mentioned as adjacent to that town.]\n8. And anywhere on the bank of the Narmad\u00e2 (Nerbudda) river;\n9. And on the bank of the Yamun\u00e2 (Jumna);\n10. And, particularly, on the Gang\u00e2;\n11. And at Kus\u00e2varta;\n12. And at Binduka; 13. And upon the N\u00eelgiri hills; 14. And at Kanakhala; 15. And at Kubg\u00e2mra; 16. And on the Bhrigutunga (mountain); 17. And at Ked\u00e2ra; 18. And on the Mah\u00e2laya (mountain); 19. And on the Nadantik\u00e2 (river); 20. And on the Sugandh\u00e2 (river); 21. And at S\u00e2kambhar\u00ee; 22. And at Phalgut\u00eertha; 23. And on the\n[11. This T\u00eertha 'is situated upon the mountain called Tryambaka, where the God\u00e2var\u00ee river takes its rise.' (Nand.) Tryambaka is the modern Trimbak (the name of a place of pilgrimage situated near N\u00e2sik).\n12. 'Binduka is the name of a T\u00eertha in the Dekhan. Bilvaka, as other texts read (the MS. on which the two Calcutta editions are based among the number), is the name of another T\u00eertha in the Dekhan.' (Nand.)\n14. There is one Kanakhala in the Him\u00e2layas, and another near Trimbak. (Nand.)\n15. There is one plain of that name in Orissa, and another in Haridv\u00e2r. (Nand.)\n16. This is the name of a sacred mountain near the Amarakantaka range, according to Nand.; in the Him\u00e2layas, according to others. See the Petersburg Dictionary.\n17. Ked\u00e2ra (the Ked\u00e2r mountains?) is in the Him\u00e2layas. (Nand.)\n18, 19. These two names are not defined by Nand.\n20. This is a river in the vicinity of the Saugandhika mountain. (Nand.)\n21. S\u00e2kambhar\u00ee is the modern Sh\u00e2mbar, which lies 'in the desert of Marudesa, on the salt lake.' (Nand.)\n22. 'Phalgut\u00eertha is a T\u00eertha in Gay\u00e2.' (Nand.)\n23. Mah\u00e2gang\u00e2, 'the great Gang\u00e2,' is the Alak\u00e2nand\u00e2 river {footnote p. 258} (Nand.), which takes its rise in the Him\u00e2layas and falls into the Ganges.]\nMah\u00e2gang\u00e2; 24. And at Trihalik\u00e2gr\u00e2ma; 25. And at Kum\u00e2radh\u00e2r\u00e2; 26. And at Prabh\u00e2sa; 2 7. And particularly anywhere on (the bank of) the Sarasvat\u00ee;\n28. At Gang\u00e2dv\u00e2ra (Haridv\u00e2r), at Pray\u00e2ga (Allahabad), where the Gang\u00e2 falls into the ocean, constantly in the Naimisha forest, and especially at Benares;\n29. And at Agasty\u00e2srama;\n30. And at Kanv\u00e2srama (on the M\u00e2lin\u00ee river);\n31. And on the Kausik\u00ee (Kosi river);\n32. And on the bank of the Saray\u00fb (Surju river in Oudh);\n33. And on the confluence of the Sona (Sone) and Gyotisha rivers;\n34. And on the Sr\u00eeparvata (mountain);\n[24. 'Trihalik\u00e2gr\u00e2ma means S\u00e2lagr\u00e2ma. There is another reading, Tandulik\u00e2srama.' (Nand.)\n25. This is the name of a lake in Kasm\u00eer, which the god Kum\u00e2ra by a mighty stroke caused to stream forth from the Krau\u00f1ka mountain (see V\u00e2yu-pur\u00e2na); or Kum\u00e2radh\u00e2r\u00e2 is situated near the southern ocean in the plain of Ishup\u00e2ta. (Nand.)\n26. Prabh\u00e2sa is the name of a T\u00eertha near Dv\u00e2rak\u00e2, on the western point of Kattivar. (Nand.)\n27. Regarding the river Sarasvat\u00ee and its reputed holiness, see particularly Cunningham, Ancient Geography of India, I, 331 seq., and Manu II, 17.\n28. The Naimisha forest is in the northern country. (Nand.)\n29. 'Agasty\u00e2srama is situated near Pushkara (S\u00fbtra 1), on the bank of the Sarasvat\u00ee. There is another Agasty\u00e2srama in the south, near Sv\u00e2misth\u00e2na.' (Nand.)\n33. The confluence of those two rivers is in the centre of the Vindhya range. For the name of the second, another reading is Gyot\u00eeratha. (Nand.)\n34. The Sr\u00eeparvata or Sr\u00eesaila, where the Mallik\u00e2rguna (symbol of Siva) is worshipped, is in the Dekhan. (Nand.)]\n35. And at (the T\u00eertha situated on the Yamun\u00e2, which is called) K\u00e2lodaka.\n36. And at Uttaram\u00e2nasa (in the Ked\u00e2r mountains, in the Him\u00e2layas).\n37. And at Vadav\u00e2 (in the Dekhan).\n38. And at Matangav\u00e2p\u00ee (in the southern part of Gay\u00e2);\n39. And at Sapt\u00e2rsha; 40. And at Vishnupada;\n41. And at Svargam\u00e2rgapada (or Ratham\u00e2rga);\n42. And on the God\u00e2var\u00ee river (in the Dekhan);\n43. And on the Gomat\u00ee (river);\n44. And on the Vetravat\u00ee (river);\n45. And on the Vip\u00e2s\u00e2 (river);\n46. And on the Vitast\u00e2 (river);\n47. And on the banks of the Satadru (river);\n48. And on the Kandrabh\u00e2g\u00e2 (river);\n49. And on the \u00cer\u00e2vati (river);\n50. And on the banks of the Indus;\n51. And on the southern Pa\u00f1kanada;\n52. And at Ausaga (?);\n53. And at other such T\u00eerthas;\n[39. Sapt\u00e2rsha, 'the T\u00eertha of the seven Rishis' (Nand.), is perhaps the present Satara, in the country of the Mahrattas.\n40. Nand. places this T\u00eertha in the centre of Gay\u00e2. There is another of the same name, which is placed on the Kail\u00e2sa mountain.\n43. The Gomat\u00ee (the Gunti, near Lucknow) rises in the Naimisha forest. (Nand.) See 28.\n44: The Vetravat\u00ee (the modern Betwah, near Bhilsah) is situated in Ahikkhattra. (Nand.)\n45-49. The Vip\u00e2s\u00e2 (Beas), Vitast\u00e2 (Jhelum or Behut), Satadru (Sutlej), Kandrabh\u00e2g\u00e2 (Chen\u00e2b), and \u00cer\u00e2vati (Ravee) are the five rivers of the Pa\u00f1g\u00e2b (Pa\u00f1kanada in Sanskrit).\n51. This is the name of the confluence of five rivers in the Dekhan: the Krishn\u00e2, Ven\u00e2, Tunga, Bhadr\u00e2, and Kona. (Nand.)\n52. 'Ausaga (v. 1. Augasa; read Ausiga?) means S\u00fbrp\u00e2raka' (Nand.), which was situated probably on the mouth of the Krishn\u00e2 (Kistna).]\n54. And on the banks of (other) holy rivers;\n55. And anywhere at the birth-place of a deity, (such as R\u00e2ma, Krishna, and others);\n56. And on sand-banks; 57. And near waterfalls; 58. And on mountains; 59. And in arbours (the sporting-places of Krishna); 60. And in woods; 61. And in groves; 62. And in houses smeared with cow-dung, 63. And in 'pleasant spots.'\n64. There are some stanzas recited by the manes, which refer to this subject:\n65. 'May that person be born to our race, who will give us libations of water, taken from streams abounding with water, especially if their floods (coming from the Him\u00e2layas) are cool.\n66. 'May that excellent man be born to our race, who offers us a Sr\u00e2ddha attentively at Gay\u00e2s\u00eersha or at Vata.'\n67. A man must wish to have many sons, because if only one of them goes to Gay\u00e2 (and offers a Sr\u00e2ddha to him after his death), or if he performs a horse-sacrifice, or if he sets a dark-coloured bull at liberty[1], (he will acquire final emancipation through him.)","title":"LXXXV.","type":"page"}