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# Skandapurana 14.56

Skandapurāṇa 14.56

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [14.56.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.56.1)

.. pulastya uvāca .. ..  
tato gacchennṛpaśreṣṭha guheśvaramanuttamam ..  
guhāmadhye gataṃ liṃgaṃ siddhaiḥ saṃpūjitaṃ purā .. 1 ..

> Pulastya said: / Then one should go, best of kings, to the unexcelled Guheśvara, / the liṅga situated inside a cave, worshipped in ancient times by the Siddhas. // 1  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.56.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.56.2)

yaṃyaṃ kāmamabhidhyāya saṃpūjayati mānavaḥ ..  
taṃtaṃ sa labhate rājanniṣkāmo mokṣamāpnuyāt .. 2 ..

> Whatever desire a person meditates upon when worshipping it, / that very desire he obtains, O king; and if free from desire, he attains liberation. // 2  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.56.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.56.56)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṇḍe guheśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṭpañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ ..56 ..

> Thus ends the fifty-sixth chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of Guheśvara", in the third section, the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh book, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. // 56  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.56.1) — English, machine translation

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