Harshapantha
Harshapantha · harsha-pantha, “the path of joy”
Harshapantha is a tīrtha named in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa. Brahmā tells Rudra that in the abhisheka of Bhagavān Sūrya, the water brought is contemplated as the water of the puṇya tīrthas, and Harshapantha is one of them.
In Bhagavān Sūrya’s abhisheka
On Pushya śukla saptamī abhisheka is done to the Devadeva by rule. Sūrya‘s image is set up by the Vedic method, and clean water is brought from a puṇya tīrtha or any pure source. Holding the names of the puṇya tīrthas in the mind, one makes the bhāvanā, the inner contemplation, that the water is the water of each of them, in order: Prayāga, Pushkara, Kurukshetra, Naimiśa, Pṛthūdaka, Candrabhāgā, Śoṇa, Gokarṇa, Brahmāvarta, Kuśāvarta, Bilvaka, Nīlaparvata, Gaṅgādvāra, Gaṅgāsāgara, Kālapriya, Mitravana, Śuṇḍīra-kshetra, Cakratīrtha, Rāmatīrtha, Vitastā, Harshapantha, Devikā, Gaṅgā, Sarasvatī, Sindhu, Narmadā, Vipāśā, Yamunā, Tāpī, Śivā, Vetravatī, Godāvarī, Payoshṇī, Kṛshṇā, Veṇyā, Śatarudrā, Pushkariṇī, Kauśikī and Sarayū, and all the other puṇya tīrthas, seas, āśramas and kshetras. After this snāna one worships, bows, and gives dhūpa and arghya.
Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 55
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 55