Skandapurana 16.122
Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 16.122
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16.122.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ citrāṃgadeśvaram ..
tasyaiva nairṛte bhāge dhanurviṃśatibhiḥ sthitam.. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the liṅga Citrāṅgadeśvara, / situated twenty bow-lengths to the southwest of that very place.
16.122.2
citrāṃgadena deveśi gaṃdharvapatinā priye ..
kṣetraṃ pavitraṃ jñātvā vai liṃgaṃ tatra pratiṣṭhitam ..
kṛtvā tapo mahāghoraṃ samārādhya maheśvaram .. 2 ..
By Citrāṅgada, the lord of Gandharvas, O ruler of the gods, O dear one, / having recognized it as a holy field, the liṅga was established there / after performing terrible austerity and propitiating Maheśvara.
16.122.3
atha yo bhāvasaṃyuktastalligaṃ saṃprapūjayet ..
gāṃdharvalokamāpnoti gandharvaiḥ saha modate .. 3 ..
Now, whoever, endowed with devotion, thoroughly worships that liṅga / reaches the world of the Gandharvas and rejoices together with the Gandharvas.
16.122.4
tatra śuklatrayodaśyāṃ saṃsnāpya vidhinā śivam ..
pūjayedvividhaiḥ puṣpairgaṃdhadhūpairanu kramāt ..
sa prāpnotyakhilaṃ kāmaṃ manasā yadyadīpsitam .. 4 ..
Having bathed Śiva there according to the injunction on the thirteenth day of the bright fortnight, / one should worship him with various flowers, perfumes, and incense in proper order; / he obtains all desires, whatever his mind longed for.
16.122.122
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye citrāṃgadeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvāviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 122 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-second chapter, named 'The description of the māhātmya of Citrāṅgadeśvara', in the first [part], the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, in the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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