Shloka 71
Dhaumya’s Enumeration of Eastern Tīrthas
Prācī-diś Tīrtha-kathana
सनत्कुमारप्रमुखास्तथैव परमर्षय: । अज्धिर:प्रमुखाश्वैव तथा ब्रह्मर्षयो5मला:,राजेन्द्र! तत्पश्चात् महर्षियोंद्वारा प्रशंसित प्रयागतीर्थमें जाय। जहाँ ब्रह्मा आदि देवता, दिशा, दिक्पाल, लोकपाल, साध्य, लोकसम्मानित पितर, सनत्कुमार आदि महर्षि, अंगिरा आदि निर्मल ब्रह्मर्षि, नाग, सुपर्ण, सिद्ध, सूर्य, नदी, समुद्र, गन्धर्व, अप्सरा तथा ब्रह्माजीसहित भगवान् विष्णु निवास करते हैं। वहाँ तीन अग्निकुण्ड हैं जिनके बीचसे सब तीर्थोंसे सम्पन्न गंगा वेगपूर्वक बहती हैं। त्रिभुवनविख्यात सूर्यपुत्री लोकपावनी यमुनादेवी वहाँ गंगाजीके साथ मिली हैं। गंगा और यमुनाका मध्यभाग पृथ्वीका जघन माना गया है
sanatkumāra-pramukhās tathaiva paramarṣayaḥ | aṅgirāḥ-pramukhāś caiva tathā brahmarṣayo 'malāḥ ||
Pulastya said: “There too are the supreme seers headed by Sanatkumāra, and the stainless Brahma-seers headed by Aṅgiras. After this, O king, one should go to the Prayāga sacred ford, praised by great sages—where Brahmā and other gods, the directions and their guardians, the protectors of the worlds, the Sādhyas, the Pitṛs honored by the worlds, sages such as Sanatkumāra, pure Brahma-seers such as Aṅgiras, as well as Nāgas, Suparṇas, Siddhas, the Sun, rivers, the ocean, Gandharvas, Apsarases, and Lord Viṣṇu together with Brahmā are said to dwell. There are three fire-altars there, and between them the Gaṅgā—endowed with the merit of all tīrthas—flows swiftly. The world-purifying Yamunā, daughter of the Sun and famed in the three worlds, meets the Gaṅgā there. The space between Gaṅgā and Yamunā is regarded as the ‘hip’ (jaghana) of the earth.”
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