Skandapurana 6.3.213
Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 6.3.213
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6.3.213.1
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca -
punaranyatpravakṣyāmi devasya caritaṃ mahat .
śrutamātreṇa yenaiva sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyate .. 213.1 ..
Glorious Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Again I shall tell another great deed of the god, / by the mere hearing of which one is freed from all sins.
6.3.213.2
abālo bālarūpeṇa grāmaṇyairbālakaiḥ saha .
āmalaiḥ krīḍate śambhustatte vakṣyāmi bhārata .. 213.2 ..
Though not a child, in the form of a child, along with prominent boys, / Śambhu played with myrobalan fruits; that I shall tell you, O Bhārata.
6.3.213.3
sarvaistairāmalāḥ kṣiptā ye te devena pāṇḍava .
ānītāstatkṣaṇādeva tataḥ paścātkṣipeddharaḥ .. 213.3 ..
Those myrobalan fruits thrown by all of them, O Pāṇḍava, / were brought back at that very instant by the god; then afterwards Hara threw them.
6.3.213.4
yāvadgatvā diśo digbhya āgacchanti pṛthakpṛthak .
tāvattamāmalaṃ bhūtaṃ paśyanti parameśvaram .. 213.4 ..
As soon as they went off and returned individually from the various directions, / so soon did they see that Supreme Lord turned into a myrobalan fruit.
6.3.213.5
tṛtīye caiva yatkarma devadevasya dhīmataḥ .
sthānānāṃ paramaṃ sthānamāmaleśvaramuttamam .. 213.5 ..
And as for the third deed of the wise God of gods, / supreme among places is the excellent Āmaleśvara.
6.3.213.6
tena pūjitamātreṇa prāpyate paramaṃ padam .. 213.6 ..
By merely worshipping there, the supreme abode is attained.
6.3.213.6_1
.. iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ pañcama āvantyakhaṇḍe revākhaṇḍe āmaleśvaratīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma trayodaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..
Thus ends the two hundred and thirteenth chapter, entitled "Description of the māhātmya of Āmaleśvaratīrtha," in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth book, Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses.
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