The Glory of different sacred places on the Narmada^ Markaiideya said : - Verse 5
Kurma Purana (GRETIL / Internet Archive OCR) · 41 · Verse 5
Sanskrit Original
भगवन देवमीशानं भर्गमेकं कपर्दिनम। केनोपायेन पश्यामो ब्रूहि देवनमस्कृतम।।
bhagavan devamīśānaṃ bhargamekaṃ kapardinam| kenopāyena paśyāmo brūhi devanamaskṛtam||
O king, man taking bath there, rejoices with Devas. O leading king, thereafter one should go to the excellent sacred place Vimalesvara. 6-7a. O King, a man taking bath there shall attain the the benefit of the gift of a thousand cows. Thereafter, with self-control and regulated diet, one should go to Ahgaresvara. He shall wipe off all sins and be pure. He is honoured in the Rudraloka. 7b-8a. O leading king, thereafter, one should go to the meritorious spot named Kedara. On taking bath and drinking the water, one shall obtain all desires. 8b-9a. Thereafter, one should go to Nisphalesa. It is destructive of all sins. O great king, on taking bath there, one is honoured in the Rudraloka. 9b-10a. O leading king, one should thereafter go to the excellent Banatirtha. One forsaking the life there, shall attain Rudraloka. Narmada, while AP. (113.2) and KP. supra 40.13 raise the number to sixty crores and sixty thousand and the NP. II. 77. 4 and 27-28 limits this number to three crores and a half. Though many of the verses in this chapter are also common to Mt. P. and NP. II. 77, the similarities are not pointed out as this point has been proved in the last chapter.