Skandapurana 16.299
Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 16.299
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16.299.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva dakṣiṇe bhāge nātidūre vyavasthitam..
śaṃkhacakragadādhārī mādhavastatra saṃsthitaḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Situated on its very southern side, not very far away, / Mādhava, bearing the conch, the discus, and the mace, is stationed there.
16.299.2
ekādaśyāṃ site pakṣe sopavāso jitendriyaḥ ..
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā gaṃdhapuṣpānulepanaiḥ ..
sa yāti paramaṃ sthānamapunarbhavadāyakam .. 2 ..
He who, fasting and with senses conquered on the eleventh day of the bright fortnight, / worships him with devotion with scents, flowers, and ointments, / goes to the supreme state that grants freedom from rebirth.
16.299.3
atra gāthā purā gītā brahmaṇā lokakartṛṇā ..
viṣṇukuṇḍe naraḥ snātvā yo vai mādhavamarcayet ..
sa yāsyati paraṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo hariḥ svayam .. 3 ..
On this point a verse was sung in ancient times by Brahmā, the creator of the world: / "A man who, having bathed in the Viṣṇukuṇḍa, worships Mādhava, / shall go to the supreme state where the god Hari is himself present."
16.299.4
etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ māhātmyaṃ viṣṇudaivatam ..
sarvakāmapradaṃ nṛṇāṃ sarvapātakanāśanam.. 4 ..
All this māhātmya relating to the deity Viṣṇu has been recounted to you; / it grants all desires to men and destroys all sins.
16.299.299
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye mādhavamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma navanavatyuttaradvi śatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 299 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and ninety-ninth chapter, named "Description of the Māhātmya of Mādhava", in the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, the first [sub-section] in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand verses.
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