Adhyaya 205

Within a Śiva–Pārvatī frame in the Kāliṃdī-māhātmya, an inner tale proclaims the extraordinary merit of a “great sacred ford” connected with Indraprastha. A rākṣasa dies while attempting a dharmic deed—protecting a cow—yet is borne away in a celestial car and attains a divine state, showing the tīrtha’s power and the saving weight of dharma even for outsiders. The teaching then turns to single-minded Hari-bhakti: the narrator renounces any desire for the statuses of Brahmā, Śiva, or Indra and abides at the ford in worship of Puruṣottama. Śivaśarman recounts his own rebirth through Durvāsā’s curse incurred while absorbed in Viṣṇu-dhyāna; through repentance he receives the boon that death at this tīrtha ends rebirth. The chapter closes by equating faithful listening with great ritual merits and declaring that even animals dying there gain a four-armed form.