Skandapurana 6.3.17

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adhyāya 17

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śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
evaṃ saṃstūyamānastu brahmādyairmunipuṃgavaiḥ .
brahmalokagataistatra saṃjahāra jagatprabhuḥ .. 17.1 ..

The venerable Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Being thus praised by the eminent sages headed by Brahmā / who were present in the Brahmaloka, the lord of the world withdrew [the universe]. 17.1

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sa tadbhīmaṃ mahāraudraṃ dakṣiṇaṃ vaktramavyayam .
mahādaṃṣṭrotkaṭārāvaṃ pātālatalasaṃnibham .. 17.2 ..

He [revealed] that imperishable, terrifying, exceedingly dreadful southern face, / with an intensely loud roar and huge fangs, resembling the depths of Pātāla, 17.2

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vidyujjvalanapiṅgākṣaṃ bhairavaṃ lomaharṣaṇam .
mahājihvaṃ mahādaṃṣṭraṃ mahāsarpaśirodharam .. 17.3 ..

with yellow eyes shining like lightning, fearsome, causing the hair to stand on end, / with a huge tongue, huge fangs, and carrying great serpents on its neck, 17.3

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mahāsuraśiromālaṃ mahāpralayakāraṇam .
grasatsamudranihitavātavārimayaṃ haviḥ .. 17.4 ..

wearing a garland of heads of great asuras, the cause of the great dissolution, / devouring the oblation composed of wind and water placed in the ocean, 17.4

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vaḍavāmukhasaṅkāśaṃ mahādevasya tanmukham .
jihvāgreṇa jagatsarvaṃ lelihānamapaśyata .. 17.5 ..

resembling the mouth of the submarine mare's fire—that mouth of Mahādeva, / licking all the universe with the tip of its tongue, he beheld. 17.5

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yojanānāṃ sahasrāṇi sahasrāṇāṃ śatāni ca .
diśo daśa mahāghorā māṃsamedovasotkaṭāḥ .. 17.6 ..

Thousands of yojanas and hundreds of thousands [in extent], / the ten directions were made exceedingly terrifying, full of flesh, fat, and marrow. 17.6

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tasya daṃṣṭrā vyavardhata śataśo'tha sahasraśaḥ .
sāsurānsuragandharvān sayakṣoragarākṣasān .. 17.7 ..

His fangs grew by hundreds and thousands, / [crushing] the asuras, suras, gandharvas, together with the yakṣas, uragas, and rākṣasas. 17.7

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tasya daṃṣṭrāgrasaṃlagnānsa dadarśa pitāmahaḥ .
dantayantrāntasaṃviṣṭaṃ vicūrṇitaśirodharam .. 17.8 ..

The grandfather saw them caught at the tips of his fangs, / situated inside the machine of his teeth, their necks crushed to powder. 17.8

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jagatpaśyāmi rājendra viśantaṃ vyādite mukhe .
nānātaraṅgabhaṅgāṅgā mahāphenaughasaṃkulāḥ .
yathā nadyo layaṃ yānti samudraṃ prāpya sasvanāḥ .. 17.9 ..

"I see the world, O best of kings, entering the gaping mouth! / Just as rivers, with bodies of various breaking waves and filled with masses of heavy foam, / meet their dissolution with a roar upon reaching the ocean, 17.9

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tathā tataṃ viśvamidaṃ samastamanekajīvārṇavadurvigāhyam .
viveśa rudrasya mukhaṃ viśālaṃ jvalattadugraṃ ghananādaghoram .. 17.10 ..

so this entire extended universe, difficult to fathom like an ocean of countless living beings, / entered the vast, burning, fierce mouth of Rudra, terrifying with a sound like thunderclouds. 17.10

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jvālāstatastasya mukhātsughorāḥ savisphuliṅgā bahulāḥ sadhūmāḥ .
anekarūpā jvalanaprakāśāḥ pradīpayantīva diśo'khilāśca .. 17.11 ..

Then, exceedingly dreadful, abundant flames, accompanied by sparks and smoke, / possessing various forms and the brightness of fire, [surged] from his mouth, as if setting all the directions ablaze. 17.11

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tato ravijvālasahasramāli babhūva vaktraṃ calajihvadaṃṣṭram .
maheśvarasyādbhutarūpiṇastadā sa dvādaśātmā prababhūva ekaḥ .. 17.12 ..

Then the face with moving tongue and fangs became garlanded with thousands of sun-like flames. / That one lord of wonderful form, Maheśvara, then became the twelve-fold soul. 17.12

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tataste dvādaśādityā rudravaktrādvinirgatāḥ .
āśritya dakṣiṇāmāśāṃ nirdahanto vasuṃdharām .. 17.13 ..

Then those twelve Ādityas went forth from the mouth of Rudra, / resorting to the southern quarter, burning up the earth. 17.13

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bhaumaṃ yajjīvanaṃ kiṃcinnānāvṛkṣatṛṇālayam .
śuṣkaṃ pūrvamanāvṛṣṭyā sakalākulabhūtalam .. 17.14 ..

Whatever living matter was on the earth, the abode of diverse trees and grass, / which was already dried up by drought, the whole earth being distressed, 17.14

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taddīpyamānaṃ sahasā sūryaistai rudrasambhavaiḥ .
dhūmākulamabhūtsarvaṃ praṇaṣṭagrahatārakam .. 17.15 ..

all that was suddenly set ablaze by those suns born of Rudra, / became filled with smoke, with the planets and stars obliterated. 17.15

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jajvāla sahasā dīptaṃ bhūmaṇḍalamaśeṣataḥ .
jvālāmālākulaṃ sarvamabhūdetaccarācaram .. 17.16 ..

The globe of the earth blazed entirely in a sudden flash; / all this, moving and unmoving, became engulfed in garlands of flames. 17.16

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saptadvīpasamudreṣu saritsu ca sarassu ca agniratti jagatsarvamājyāhutimivādhvare .. 17.17 ..

In the oceans of the seven continents, in the rivers and in the lakes, the fire devoured the whole world like an oblation of clarified butter in a sacrifice. 17.17

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viśālatejasā dīptā mahājvālāsamākulāḥ .
dadahurvai jagatsarvamādityā rudrasambhavāḥ .. 17.18 ..

Blazing with immense splendor and filled with great flames, / the Ādityas born of Rudra truly burned the entire world. 17.18

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ādityānāṃ raśmayaśca saṃspṛṣṭā vai parasparam .
evaṃ dadāha bhagavāṃstrailokyaṃ sacarācaram .. 17.19 ..

The rays of the Ādityas touched one another; / thus did the Lord burn the three worlds, both moving and unmoving. 17.19

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saptadvīpapramāṇastu so'gnirbhūtvā maheśvaraḥ .
saptadvīpasamudrāntāṃ nirdadāha vasuṃdharām .. 17.20 ..

Maheśvara, having become that fire measuring the size of the seven continents, / burned up the earth as far as the oceans of the seven continents." 17.20

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sumerumandarāntāṃ ca nirdahurvasudhāṃ tadā .
bhittvā tu saptapātālaṃ nāgalokaṃ tato'dahat .. 17.21 ..

And they burned up the earth including Sumeru and Mandara then; / having broken through the seven realms of Pātāla, it then burned the world of the Nāgas.

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bhūmyadhaḥ saptapātālānnirdahaṃstārakaiḥ saha .
cacārāgniḥ samantāttu nirdahanvai yudhiṣṭhira .. 17.22 ..

Burning beneath the earth the seven realms of Pātāla together with the demons, / the fire moved on every side, burning indeed, O Yudhiṣṭhira.

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dhamyamāna ivāṅgārairloharātririva jvalan .
tathā tatprājvalatsarvaṃ saṃvartāgnipradīpitam .. 17.23 ..

Like [iron] being blown with coals, blazing like a night of iron, / thus all that blazed up, ignited by the fire of universal destruction.

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nirvṛkṣā nistṛṇā bhūmirnirnirjharasaraḥ sarit .
viśīrṇaśailaśṛṅgaughā kūrmapṛṣṭhopamābhavat .. 17.24 ..

Devoid of trees, devoid of grass, the earth, without springs, lakes, or rivers, / its mass of mountain peaks shattered, became like the back of a tortoise.

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jvālāmālākulaṃ kṛtvā jagatsarvaṃ cidāmakam .
mahārūpadharo rudro vyatiṣṭhata maheśvaraḥ .. 17.25 ..

Having filled the entire universe with a garland of flames, the conscious essence, / Rudra, Maheśvara, having assumed an immense form, stood.

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samātṛgaṇabhūyiṣṭhā sayakṣoragarākṣasā .
tato devī mahādevaṃ viveśa harilocanā .. 17.26 ..

Surrounded predominantly by the hosts of the mothers, accompanied by Yakṣas, serpents, and Rākṣasas, / then the Goddess with eyes like Viṣṇu entered Mahādeva,

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nirvāṇaṃ paramāpannā śānteva śikhinaḥ śikhā .
jagatsarvaṃ hi nirdagdhaṃ tribhirlokaiḥ sahānagha .. 17.27 ..

having attained supreme extinction, like the flame of a fire that has subsided. / For the entire universe along with the three worlds was burnt, O sinless one,

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rudraprasādānmuktvā māṃ narmadāṃ cāpyayonijām .
yugānāmayutaṃ devo mayā cādya bubhakṣaṇāt .. 17.28 ..

by the grace of Rudra, except for me and the Narmadā, not born of a womb. / For ten thousand yugas the god [was worshipped] by me today, because of his desire to consume.

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purā hyārādhitaḥ śūlī tenāhamajarāmaraḥ .
aghamarṣaṇaghoraṃ ca vāmadevaṃ ca tryambakam .. 17.29 ..

For of old the wielder of the trident was propitiated; by that I am free from old age and death. / Having recited the Aghamarṣaṇa, the Ghora, the Vāmadeva, and the Tryambaka;

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ṛṣabhaṃ trisuparṇaṃ ca durgāṃ sāvitrameva ca .
bṛhadāraṇyakaṃ caiva bṛhatsāma tathottaram .. 17.30 ..

the Ṛṣabha, the Trisuparṇa, the Durgā, and the Sāvitra; / the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, the Bṛhatsāma, and the Uttara;

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raudrīṃ paramagāyatrīṃ śivopaniṣadaṃ tathā .
yathā pratirathaṃ sūktaṃ japtvā mṛtyuṃjayaṃ tathā .. 17.31 ..

the supreme Raudrī Gāyatrī, and the Śivopaniṣad, / as well as the Pratiratha hymn, and the Mṛtyuṃjaya [mantra]—

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saritsāgaraparyantā vasudhā bhasmasātkṛtā .
varjayitvā mahābhāgāṃ narmadāmamṛtopamām .. 17.32 ..

the earth extending to the rivers and the oceans was reduced to ashes, / sparing the highly fortunate Narmadā, who is like nectar.

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mahendro malayaḥ sahyo hemakūṭo'tha mālyavān .
vindhyaśca pāriyātraśca saptaite kulaparvatāḥ .. 17.33 ..

Mahendra, Malaya, Sahya, Hemakūṭa, and Mālyavān, / Vindhya, and Pāriyātra: these are the seven principal mountain ranges.

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dvādaśādityanirdagdhāḥ śailāḥ śīrṇaśilāḥ pṛthak .
bhasmībhūtāstu dṛśyante na naṣṭā narmadā tadā .. 17.34 ..

Burned by the twelve suns, their rocks individually shattered, / the mountains were seen turned to ash; yet the Narmadā was not destroyed then.

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himavānhemakūṭaśca niṣadho gandhamādanaḥ .
mālyavāṃśca giriśreṣṭho nīlaḥ śveto'tha śṛṅgavān .. 17.35 ..

Himavān, Hemakūṭa, Niṣadha, Gandhamādana, / and Mālyavān the best of mountains, Nīla, Śveta, and Śṛṅgavān:

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ete parvatarā jāno devagandharvasevitāḥ .
yugāntāgnivinirdagdhāḥ sarve śīrṇamahāśilāḥ .. 17.36 ..

these kings of mountains, resorted to by gods and Gandharvas, / all had their great rocks shattered, completely burnt by the fire of the end of the yuga.

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evaṃ mayā purā dṛṣṭo yugānte sarvasaṃkṣayaḥ .
varjayitvā mahāpuṇyāṃ narmadāṃ nṛpasattama .. 17.37 ..

Thus of old the complete destruction at the end of the yuga was seen by me, / sparing the greatly meritorious Narmadā, O best of kings.

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.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe śrīnarmadāmāhātmye dvādaśādityarūpeṇa jagatsaṃharaṇavarṇanaṃ nāma saptadaśo'dhyāyaḥ ..

Thus ends the seventeenth chapter, named 'Description of the Destruction of the Universe in the Form of Twelve Suns' in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth Section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the Śrīskandamahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.