Skandapurana 14.43
Skandapurāṇa 14.43
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14.43.1
.. pulastya uvāca .. ..
tato gacchennṛpaśreṣṭha siddhaliṃgaṃ susiddhidam..
siddhaistu sthāpitaṃ liṃgaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .. 1 ..
Pulastya said: / 'Then, O best of kings, one should go to the Siddhaliṅga that bestows great accomplishment,
a liṅga consecrated by the Siddhas, destroying all evils.
14.43.2
tatrāsti śobhanaṃ kuṇḍaṃ sunirmalajalānvitam ..
tatra snāto naraḥ samyaṅmucyate brahmahatyayā .. 2 ..
There lies an auspicious pool endowed with pure water;
a man who has performed ritual ablution there properly is freed from the killing of a brahmin.
14.43.3
yaṃyaṃ kāmamabhidhyāyaṃstatra snāti naro nṛpa ..
avaśyaṃ tamavāpnoti niṣṭhāṃte ca parāṃ gatim .. 3 ..
Whatever desire a man meditates upon while bathing there, O king,
he inevitably attains it, and at the end of life, the supreme goal.'
14.43.43
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṇḍe siddheśvaramahimavarṇanaṃnāma trayaścatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ ..43..
Thus ends the forty-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Greatness of Siddheśvara,' in the Arbuda Section, the third [part] of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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