अध्याय ६
श्लोक 1
इति श्रीस्कन्दपुराणे रेवाखण्डे नर्मदायाश् चतुर्थावतारे पञ्चमो ऽध्यायः ॥ र्क्स् अध्याय ६ युधिष्ठिर उवाच: मुने मेकलकन्याया अवतारः श्रुतो मया ।इदानीं श्रोतुम् इच्छामि तीर्थानि च यथाक्रमम्
iti śrīskandapurāṇe revākhaṇḍe narmadāyāś caturthāvatāre pañcamo 'dhyāyaḥ || rks adhyāya 6 yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: mune mekalakanyāyā avatāraḥ śruto mayā / idānīṃ śrotum icchāmi tīrthāni ca yathākramam
हिन्दी अर्थ
जहाँ त्रिशूलधारी देवाधिदेव महादेवने त्रिपुरको मार गिराया था। यहाँ देवदेव महादेवके नाम- कीर्तनसे तथा नर्मदाजीके जलद्वारा उनका स्नान और पूजन करनेसे ब्रह्महत्या नष्ट हो जाती है।
English
Again, O excellent king, when the end of the third Yuga approached, Lord Nilalohita assumed the forms of the twelve Suns and burnt the entire ocean-girt earth along with the mountains and forests. Mahesvara then was in the form of Kala, the destroyer. Thereafter he became an enormously big. cloud and flooded the entire earth with water. His body as- sumed a dark physical form and the earth was marked with lightning and Moon as though hit with a weapon and flooded with water. The entire universe was turned into a vast expanse of water. By means of his Maya, he withdrew the universe into himself and slept in the translucent water. In the ocean envel- oped in darkness, when the element of Vayu (Wind) assumed the activity of Mahesvara, I wandered about for a period of a thousand divine years. O great king, I meditated upon the Lord in the form of Oiiikara, the Lord by whom everything was rendered impenetrable. I was meditating in the pure water when the mobile and immobile beings got merged in that ter- rible ocean. I suddenly espied a Mayura (peacock) embellished with golden feathers with wonderful eyelike marks of various colours. The peacock was blue-throated and had excellent eyes.