Lomasha said: -
1. O King, when Nriga performed sacrifices and gratified Purandara (Indra) with the offer of Soma juice, he became very much gratified and was much pleased.
2. Here did the celestials with Indra and Prajapati (Brahma) perform many sacrifices on a large scale and paid large Dakshinas to the ministering priests.
3. Here king Amurtarasya offered oblations of Soma to the wielder of Vajra (Indra) in seven great horse-sacrifices.
4. The articles which in other sacrificial rites are uniformly made of timber, wood and of earth were all made of gold in these seven sacrifices.
5. It is heard that, in all these sacrifices seven sets of stakes, of rings for sacrificial stakes, of spots, ladles, utensils and spoons were prepared by him.
6-7. On each sacrificial stakes seven rings were fastened at the top. O Yudhishthira, the celestials together with Indra erected the sacrificial stakes made of gold which were prepared for his sacred rites. In all these foremost of sacrifices of that great king Gaya.
8. Indra was delighted by drinking the Soma juice and the ministering priests were gratified with the large Dakshinas they received. The Brahmanas obtained untold wealth.
9. As the sand-grains on earth, as stars in the firmament, as the rain drops when it rains cannot be counted.
10-11. So the wealth that Gaya gave away could not be counted. O great king, even the above mentioned objects might be counted, but the Dakshinas bestowed on the priests in those seven sacrifices could not be counted. Its largeness exceeded all that was known before.
12. The images of the goddess of speech were made of gold by Vishvakarma himself. The king gratified the Brahmanas by presenting them to those priests who came there from all directions.
13. O king, when Gay a performed his sacrifices, he erected sacrificial stakes at so many places that little space was left (uncovered) on earth.
14. O descendant of Bharata, he obtained the region of Indra by his that act. He who bathes in the Payoshini goes to the region obtained by him.
15. Therefore, O king of kings, O undeteriorating one, O protector of earth, you and your brothers should bathe in this river; and then you will be freed from all sins.
Vaishampayana said: -
16-17. O foremost of men, O sinless one, having bathed in the Payoshini with his brothers, that great hero went with his brothers to the Vaidurya mountain and the great river Narmada. Lomasha narrated to him the accounts of all the sacred and charming Tirthas. He with his brothers then visited those places according to his desire and convenience. He gave away to the Brahmanas in this places by thousands.
Lomasha said: -
18. O son of Kunti, seeing the Vaidurya mountain and bathing in the Narmada, one obtains the region of the celestials and the kings.
19. O foremost of men, O son of Kunti, this is the junction of Treta and Kali (ages); this is the time when a person is cleansed of all his sins.
20. O child, this is the place where Sharyati performed his sacrifice. Kaushika (Indra) with Ashvins appeared here in their visible from and drank the Soma (juice).
21. The greatly ascetic, the descendant of Bhrigu, was filled with anger against Indra. The lord Chyavana paralyzed Indra and obtained the princess Sukanya as his wife.
Yudhishthira said: -
22. Why the exalted chastiser of Paka, Indra, was paralyzed and the great ascetic, the descendant of Bhrigu got angry against him?
23. O Brahmana, why he made the Ashvins, the drinkers of Soma? O exalted one, narrate all this to me in detail.
Thus ends the hundred and twenty-first chapter, the history of Sukanya, in the Tirthayatra of the Vana Parva.