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Skandapurana 16.277

Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 16.277

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16.277.1

tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ paśyedbhūdharaṃnāma nāmataḥ ..
uddhṛtya pṛthivīṃ yasmāddaṃṣṭrāgreṇa dadhāra saḥ .. 1 ..

Right there one should behold the one known by name as Bhūdhara, / for He lifted up the earth and bore it upon the tip of His tusk.

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16.277.2

bhūdharastena cākhyāto devikātaṭasaṃsthitaḥ ..
vedapādo yūpadaṃṣṭraḥ kratudantaḥ srucīmukhaḥ .. 2 ..

Therefore, He who is stationed on the bank of the Devikā is known as Bhūdhara: / having the Vedas as His legs, the sacrificial post as His tusk, the sacrifices as His teeth, and the ladle as His mouth;

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16.277.3

agnijihvo darbharomā brahmaśīrṣo mahātapāḥ ..
ahorātrekṣaṇaparo vedāṃgaśrutibhūṣaṇaḥ .. 3 ..

having the sacrificial fire as His tongue, darbha-grass as His hair, Brahmā as His head, possessing great tapas, / having day and night as His eyes, and adorned with the Vedāṅgas as His ears;

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16.277.4

ādyanāsaḥ sruvatuṃḍaḥ sāmaghoṣasvano mahān ..
prāgvaṃśakāyo dyutimā nnānādīkṣāvirājitaḥ .. 4 ..

having the primeval ladle as His nose, the offering-spoon as His snout, the roar of the Sāmaveda as His great voice, / His body the Prāgvaṃśa hall, radiant, adorned with various consecrations;

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16.277.5

dakṣiṇāhṛdayo yogī mahāsatraśayo mahān ..
upākarmoṣṭharucakaḥ pravargyāvartabhūṣaṇaḥ .. 5 ..

having the sacrificial fee as His heart, a yogin, reposing in the great Soma sacrifice, the Great One, / having the upākarman ceremony as the beauty of His lip, adorned with the whirlpool of the pravargya rite;

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16.277.6

nānācchandogatipatho brahmoktakramavikramaḥ ..
bhūtvā yajñavarāho'sau tatra sthāne sthito'bhavat .. 6 ..

having the diverse Vedic metres as His path of motion, and His strides defined by the order spoken by Brahmā; / having assumed the form of the Sacrificial Boar, He remained stationed in that place.

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16.277.7

puṣyamāse hyamāvāsyāmekādaśyāmathāpi vā ..
prāpte prāvṛṣi kāle ca jñātvā kanyāgataṃ ravim .. 7 ..

On the new moon day or the eleventh lunar day in the month of Puṣya, / or when the rainy season arrives, knowing the sun to have entered Virgo,

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16.277.8

pāyasaṃ guḍasaṃyuktaṃ haviṣyaṃ ca guḍaplutam ..
namo vaḥ pitaro rasāya annādyamabhimaṃtrayet .. 8 ..

one should consecrate the food and other items—milk-rice mixed with jaggery, and sacrificial food soaked in jaggery— / with the mantra: 'Homage to you, O ancestors, for the essence!'

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16.277.9

tejo'siśukramityājyaṃ dadhikrāvṇena vai dadhi ..
kṣīramājyāya mantreṇa vyañjanāni ca yāni tu .. 9 ..

He should consecrate the clarified butter with 'You are splendor, the seed,' the curds indeed with the Dadhikrāvan verse, / the milk with the mantra for ghee, and whatever cooked vegetables,

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16.277.10

bhakṣyabhojyāni sarvāṇi mahānindreṇa dāpayet ..
saṃvatsa roniyo maṃtraṃ japtvā tenodakaṃ dvijaḥ .. 7.1.277.10 ..

and offer all chewable and edible foods with the verse to great Indra; / and the twice-born should offer water reciting the mantra 'Saṃvatsara-...'

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16.277.11

evaṃ saṃbhojya vai viprānpiṇḍadānaṃ tu dāpayet ..
ityanena vidhānena yastatra śrāddhakṛdbhavet ..11..

Having thus fed the brahmins, he should offer the piṇḍa offerings. / Whoever performs a śrāddha there according to this rite,

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16.277.12

tasya tṛptāstu pitaro yāvadiṃdrāścaturddaśa ..
gayāśrāddhaṃ vināpīha gayāśrāddhaphalaṃ labhet..12..

his ancestors remain satisfied for the duration of fourteen Indras; / even without a śrāddha at Gayā, he obtains here the fruit of a Gayā-śrāddha.

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16.277.277

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ sahitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye devikāmāhātmye bhūdharayajñavarāhamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptasaptatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..277..

Thus ends the two hundred seventy-seventh chapter, titled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Bhūdhara-Yajñavarāha in the Devikāmāhātmya,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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