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Podcast: Śivadyuti (शिवद्युति)
Episode: Śiva Purāṇa Vidyeśvara saṁhitā 24b—Tripuṇḍra & Uddhūlana
Description: “He who makes tripuṇḍra duly with the ash is freed from groups of great as well as small sins. A brahmacārin, a householder, a forest-dweller or an ascetic, brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, śūdras, the low and the base people become pure by means of tripuṇḍra and uddhūlana applied in the prescribed manner, and get heaps of sins destroyed. A person regularly applying the ash is freed from the sins of slaughter of women and cows, and that of heroes and horses. There is no doubt about it. By means of tripuṇḍra, the following and simila...