Skandapurana 16.264
Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 16.264
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16.264.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tatraiva saṃsthitā devi guphā pātakanāśinī ..
ṛṣīṇāṃ saṃsthitiryatra siddhānāṃ puṇyacetasām .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Right there, O goddess, is situated the cave that destroys sins, / where is the dwelling of the seers and the holy-minded Siddhas.
16.264.2
tatra gatvā mahādevi guphāṃ yaḥ paśyate naraḥ ..
sa muktaḥ sarvapāpebhyaścāṃdrāyaṇaphalaṃ labhet.. 2 ..
Going there, O great goddess, whatever man beholds the cave / is freed from all sins and attains the fruit of the cāndrāyaṇa penance.
16.264.264
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye naṃdinīguphāmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuḥṣaṣṭyu ttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 264 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-fourth chapter, entitled “The Description of the Māhātmya of the Cave of Nandinī,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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