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# Skandapurana 1.2.13

Skandapurāṇa 1.2.13

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.2.13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.1)

..naṃdikeśvara uvāca .. ..

> Nandikeśvara said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.2)

ketakībarhamapyenaṃ vihasya punarabravīt ..

> Laughing, the ketakī petal spoke to him again:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.3)

.. ketakyuvāca .. ..

> The ketakī said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.4)

api mūḍha na kiṃcittvaṃ vetsi kastvaṃ kuto na tat .. 1 ..

> "Are you foolish, knowing nothing, \[not even\] who you are or whence?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.5)

īdṛśyaḥ parito lagnā yasminbrahmāṃḍakoṭayaḥ ..

> In him billions of cosmic eggs cling all around like this;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.6)

tasya pramāṇametāvaditi ko vedituṃ kṣamaḥ ..2..

> who is capable of knowing, 'such is his measure'?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.7)

caturyugāyutairyātaṃ tato nipatato mama..

> Ten thousand four-age cycles have passed for me falling from there,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.8)

idānīmapi nāproti tanmadhyaṃ kila bhūtalam ..3..

> and even now, indeed, the middle of it has not reached the surface of the earth."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.9)

iti bruvāṇamenaṃ ca namaskṛtya sarojabhūḥ..

> Bowing to this \[petal\] as it spoke thus, the lotus-born \[Brahmā\],  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.10)

hitvā nijamahaṃkāramabhāṣata kṛtāṃjaliḥ..4..

> abandoning his own pride, spoke with folded hands.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.11)

brahmovāca..

> Brahmā said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.12)

mahātmansatyamevāsmi mūḍho'haṃ ketakacchada..

> "O great-souled one, true it is indeed: I am a fool, O ketaka petal!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.13)

brahmaṇā hi mayā sparddhā viṣṇunā saha nirmitā.. 5..

> For I, Brahmā, instituted a rivalry with Viṣṇu.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.14)

dvābhyāmapīdamāvābhyāṃ vismṛtaṃ śivavaibhavam..

> By both of us, the majesty of Śiva was forgotten,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.15)

yannau mahānabhūdgarvassargasaṃtrāṇamātrataḥ.. 6..

> since we felt great pride merely from creating and protecting.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.16)

hrepaṇī saṃkathā tāvadāstāmadyāpyahaṃ yataḥ ..

> Let that humiliating conversation be set aside for now, because even today  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.17)

sparddhayā na vimukto'smi baddhayā garuḍadhvaje .. 7 ..

> I am not freed from the rivalry entered into with \[Viṣṇu\] whose banner is Garuḍa.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.18)

sakhyaṃ sāptapadīnaṃ hi kathyate tadbhavānmayi .. 8 ..

> Friendship is indeed said to arise from taking seven steps together; therefore,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.19)

asaṃstutadhiyaṃ hitvā kartumarhasyanugraham ..

> abandoning the notion that I am a stranger, you ought to show me grace.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.20)

ahaṃ viṣṇuśca mohāṃdhau tejaḥstaṃbhasya vīkṣaṇāt .. 9 ..

> Viṣṇu and I, blinded by delusion at the sight of the pillar of fire,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.21)

haṃsakolākṛtī dadhvo mithaḥ sāmyaṃ vyapohitum ..

> assumed the forms of a swan and a boar to dispel mutual equality.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.22)

mūlaṃ didṛkṣuḥ sa daśāṃ kīdṛśīṃ yātavāniti .. 1.3.2.13.10 ..

> Wishing to see the base, into what condition he has fallen  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.23)

na jāne mama cāsyāgraṃ didṛkṣorīdṛkṣī daśā ..

> I do not know; and such is the condition of me, who wished to see its tip:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.24)

gatamuḍḍīyamānasya me sahasreṇa hāyaneḥ .. .. 11 ..

> a thousand years have passed while I flew up;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.25)

jātaśramo'smi nitarāṃ viyujya iva cāsubhiḥ ..

> I have become utterly exhausted and as if separated from life.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.26)

diṣṭyādya bhadra labdhastvaṃ mayā''laṃbovasīdatām.. 12 ..

> By good fortune today, noble one, you have been found by me as a support for the sinking.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.27)

tanme kuruṣva mitrasya saphalāṃ yācanāmimām ..

> Therefore make fruitful this request of mine, your friend:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.28)

sakhāhaṃ sahasaṃjalpādasmi dāsonuṣaṃjanāt .. 13 ..

> I am a friend from talking together; I am a servant from being attached \[to you\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.29)

tattvayā karaṇīyaivaṃ prārthanaiṣā kṛtāṃjaliḥ ..

> Therefore this plea is made by me with folded hands:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.30)

yadi paśyati mūlaṃ sa jito'hamamunā tadā .. 14 ..

> if he sees the base, then I am defeated by him;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.31)

yadvā na paśyati tadāpyasmi sāmyamupeyivān ..

> or if he does not see it, then too I will have attained equality \[with him\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.32)

idaṃ dvayamapi prāyo mamātihrepaṇaṃ sakhe .. 15 ..

> Both of these outcomes, my friend, are exceedingly humiliating to me.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.33)

tvayaiva parihāryatvamidānīṃ samupāgatam ..

> The role of preventing this has now fallen upon you alone.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.34)

anṛtāmabhibhāṣa tvamucitāṃ ca suhṛtkṛte .. 16 ..

> Speak an untruth, which is appropriate for the sake of a friend!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.35)

giramekāmimāmagre cakrapāṇerudīraya ..

> Utter this single speech in the presence of \[Viṣṇu\] holding the discus:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.36)

eṣa haṃsākṛtirbrahmā tejaḥstaṃbhasvarūpiṇaḥ .. 17 ..

> 'This Brahmā, in the form of a swan, has seen the extremely high summit  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.37)

atyuccaṃ dṛṣṭavānagramatra sākṣye sthito'smyaham ..

> of him whose form is the pillar of fire; in this matter I stand as witness.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.38)

tenāpi tejaḥstambhatvameyuṣā candramaulinā .. 18 ..

> Even by the moon-crested \[Śiva\], who has become the pillar of fire,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.39)

saṃbhāvitoyaṃ sutarāṃ pitreva hi pitāmahaḥ ..

> he was highly honored, as a grandfather \[is honored\] by a father.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.40)

ato'yamevābhyadhiko bhavato viṣṭaraśravāḥ .. 19 ..

> Therefore, this one alone is superior to you, O Viṣṇu!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.41)

ityuktvā mama sāhāyyaṃ sumahatkriyatāṃ tvayā .. 1.3.2.13.20 ..

> Having said this, let great assistance be rendered to me by you."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.42)

.. naṃdikeśvara uvāca .. ..

> Nandikeśvara said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.43)

evaṃ bhūyaḥ prārthito'yaṃ vidhātrā dākṣiṇyārdraḥ ketakībarhakopi ..

> Thus repeatedly enticed by the Creator, that ketakī petal, softened by courtesy,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.44)

tejaḥstaṃbhābhyarṇabhāje tathaiva prāhāśeṣaṃ viṣṇave brahmavākyam .. 21 ..

> spoke the whole message of Brahmā exactly so to Viṣṇu, who stood near the pillar of fire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.2.13.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.1.2.13.45)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ prathame māheśvarakhaṇḍe'ruṇācalamāhātmya uttarārdhe brahmaṇā'satyasākṣyārthaṃ ketakacchadaprāthanāvarṇanaṃnāma trayodaśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 13 .. .. cha ..

> Thus ends the thirteenth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Solicitation of the Ketaka Petal for False Witness by Brahmā', in the latter half of the Aruṇācalamāhātmya in the first \[part\], the Māheśvarakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.1.2.13.1) — English, machine translation

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