Skandapurana 16.302
Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 16.302
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16.302.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi gaṃdharveśvaramuttamam ..
tasyaivottaradigbhāge dhanuṣāṃ paṃcake sthitam ..1..
The Lord said: / Then one should go, O Great Goddess, to the excellent Gandharveśvara, / situated to the north of it, at a distance of five bow-lengths. (1)
16.302.2
taṃ dṛṣṭvā ca mahādevi rūpavāñjāyate naraḥ ..
gaṃdharvaiḥ sthāpitaṃ liṃgaṃ snātvā saṃpūjayetsakṛt ..
sarvānkāmānavāpnoti raktakaṇṭhaśca jāyate .. 2 ..
Beholding it, O Great Goddess, a man becomes handsome. / Bathing and worshipping once the liṅga established by the Gandharvas, / he attains all desires and becomes sweet-voiced. (2)
16.302.302
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye gaṃdharveśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 302 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and second chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Gandharveśvara', in the first [section,] the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses]. (302)
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