अध्याय ५४
श्लोक 1
इति श्रीस्कन्दपुराणे रेवाखण्डे नरकायातनानुवर्णनो नाम त्रिपञ्चाशत्तमो ऽध्यायः ॥ र्क्स् अध्याय ५४ युधिष्ठिर उवाच: तीर्यते केन धर्मेण संसाराब्धिः सुदुस्तरः ।मार्कण्डेय उवाच: तेन निर्भर्त्सितैः पापैः कथ्यमानां कथां शृणु
iti śrīskandapurāṇe revākhaṇḍe narakāyātanānuvarṇano nāma tripañcāśattamo 'dhyāyaḥ || rks adhyāya 54 yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: tīryate kena dharmeṇa saṃsārābdhiḥ sudustaraḥ / mārkaṇḍeya uvāca: tena nirbhartsitaiḥ pāpaiḥ kathyamānāṃ kathāṃ śṛṇu
हिन्दी अर्थ
श्रेष्ठ मुनियो! जो मनुष्य नित्य इसका पठन या श्रवण करता है, सत्यदेवके प्रसादसे उसके ' सारे पाप नष्ट हो जाते हैं।
English
Thereupon the king became greatly anguished. (He thought:) 4 How can I go back to my abode in Varanasi? Af- flicted by the sin of Brahmana-slaughter, I shall consign my body to fire. Or at the instance (of the son of the sage) 1 shall go to the hermitage and recount to the great sage everything in the way it had happened.'