Tirthas - AncientVoice

Mbh.2.5.180	Seekest thou to know everything about the eighteen Tirthas of the foe and fifteen of thy own by means of three and three spies all unacquainted with one another?
Mbh.13.19.2948	He bathed in one of the delightful Tirthas of that river, which was free from mud, and gratified the deities with oblations of water.
Mbh.13.66.6305	Forests, and mountains, and rivers, and Tirthas are regarded as having no owners.
Mbh.13.108.9870	SECTION CVIII Yudhishthira said, Do thou tell me, O grandsire, of that which is regarded as the foremost of all Tirthas.
Mbh.13.108.9872	Bhishma said, Without doubt, all Tirthas are possessed of merit.
Mbh.13.108.9878	that are endued with purity, and that subsist upon the alms given to them by others, are regarded as Tirthas.
Mbh.13.108.9881	Those persons from whose souls the attributes of Sattwa and Rajas and Tamas have been washed off, they who, regardless of external purity and impurity pursue the ends they have proposed to themselves, they who have renounced everything, they who are possessed of omniscience and endued with universal sight, and they who are of pure conduct, are regarded as Tirthas possessing the power of cleansing.
Mbh.13.108.9893	These that I have mentioned have been said to be the Tirthas that inhere to the body.
Mbh.13.108.9894	Do thou listen to me as I tell thee what those sacred Tirthas are that are situate on the earth also.
Mbh.13.108.9896	By reciting the names of the Tirthas, by performing ablutions there, and by offering oblations to the Pitris in those places, one's sins are washed off.
Mbh.13.108.9899	The Tirthas of the mind are separate and distinct from those of the earth.
Mbh.13.108.9901	As strength without exertion, or exertion without strength can never accomplish anything, singly, and as these, when combined, can accomplish all things, even so one that becomes endued with the purity that is contributed by the Tirthas in the body as also by that which is contributed by the Tirthas on the earth, becomes truly pure and attains to success.
Mbh.13.130.11173	Hence, one should give away a Kapila cow at that Pushkara which is regarded as the senior of the two Tirthas known by that name on the day of the full moon in the month of Karttika.
Mbh.13.146.12182	All these Rivers that are of my sex, O god of gods, endued with the waters of all the Tirthas, are approaching thy presence for enabling thee to perform thy ablutions in them
Mbh.13.146.12190	and this celestial River who has in her all the sacred Tirthas, viz, the goddess Ganga, who having her rise in Heaven hath descended on the Earth and is regarded as the foremost of all streams; Having said this, the spouse of that god of gods, that foremost of all righteous persons, smilingly addressed all those Rivers of her sex.
Mbh.13.162.13570	Preceptors are the foremost of Tirthas; the heart is the foremost of all sacred objects; knowledge is the foremost of all objects of search; and contentment is the foremost of all happiness.
Mbh.13.165.13693	Sarayu, Gandaki, the great river Lohita, Tamra, Aruna, Vetravati, Parnasa, Gautami, the Godavari, Vena, Krishnavena, Dwija, Drishadvati, Kaveri, Vankhu, Mandakini Prayaga, Prabhasa, the sacred Naimisha, the spot sacred to Visweswara or Mahadeva, viz, Kasi, that lake of crystal water, Kurukshetra full of many sacred waters, the foremost of oceans viz, the ocean of milk, Penances, Gifts, Jamvumarga, Hiranwati, Vitasta, the river Plakshavati, Vedasmriti, Vedavati, Malava, Aswavati, all sacred spots on Earth, Gangadwara, the sacred Rishikulya, the river Chitravaha, the Charmanwati, the sacred river Kausiki, the Yamuna, the river Bhimarathi, the great river Vahuda, Mahendravani, Tridiva Nilika, Saraswati, Nanda, the other Nanda, the large sacred lake, Gaya, Phalgutirtha Dharmarayana the sacred forest that is peopled with the deities, the sacred celestial river, the lake created by the Grandsire Brahma which is sacred and celebrated over the three worlds, and auspicious and capable of cleansing all sins, the Himavat mountain endued with excellent herbs, the Vindhya mountain variegated with diverse kinds of metals, containing many Tirthas and overgrown with medicinal herbs.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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