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PREFACE : XXVII purification of his volitional disposition. He also states that one who increases his merit by remembering Satruñjaya hill even from his own place gains purity of disposition and the fruit of pilgrimage to it. (verses 61–64)
According to this work any pilgrimage to various places of pilgrimage in the land of humans (Manusyaloka) in does not become successful until and unless pilgrimage to Satruñjaya, located in the Saurastra region, is also undertaken. Also, all the places of pilgrimage that exist within the heavens, the hells and the human-world look up to and bow to the Pundarika, meaning that Pundarika is the most venerable amongst all the places of pilgrimage. Further, it has been stated that by bowing to the Pundarika, all other places of pilgrimage are automatically get bowed to. (verses 65–67)
In the same vein, of establishing the Pundarika as the best place of pilgrimage, the author says that by bowing at the Pundarika a pilgrim gains hundred times more gain as compared to the gains of bowing at the Kailāśa hill, Sammedasikhara, Pāvāpuri, Campanagarī and Ujjilā hill. (verses 68–69)
Further, it has been said that one who offers holy umbrella (Chatra), holy flag (Dhvaja), holy whisk (Camara), eight auspicious objects (Asta-marigala)), bathing-pitcher (Snānakalasa) and worshiping dish (Pūjā-thāla) at the Satruñjaya hill becomes a Vidyadhara (person endowed with supernatural powers). Again, the author says that one who offers a chariot (Ratha) at the Satruñjaya and climbs the Vaitādhya and the Gunadhva hills with devotion becomes liberated in a limited number of births. (verses 70-72)
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