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Skandapurana 14.57

Skandapurāṇa 14.57

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14.57.1

.. pulastya uvāca .. ..
aviyuktavanaṃ gacchettataḥ pārthivasattama ..
yasmindṛṣṭe narobhīṣṭairna viyujyeta karhicit ..1..

Pulastya said: / Then one should go to the Aviyuktavana, best of kings, / upon seeing which a man is never separated from his loved ones. // 1

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14.57.2

tatra pūrvaṃ śacī rājanpraviṣṭā duḥkhasaṃyutā ..
nahuṣeṇa hṛte rājye devendrasya mahātmanaḥ .. 2 ..

There formerly entered Śacī, O king, filled with grief, / when the kingdom of the great Indra, lord of the gods, was seized by Nahuṣa. // 2

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14.57.3

tatprabhāvātpunaḥ prāpto viyukto'pi śatakratuḥ ..
tatastasya varo datto vanasya hi tayā nṛpa .. 3 ..

Through its power, Śatakratu, though separated, was recovered; / therefore a boon was granted by her to that forest, O king: // 3

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14.57.4

naro vā yadi vā nārī viyuktā'tra vane śubhe ..
priyairnivāsa ekasminrātrimekāṃ vasiṣyati .. 4 ..

‘Whether a man or a woman, separated [from a lover], / shall stay for a single night in this auspicious forest in a dwelling with loved ones, // 4

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14.57.5

sa tena labhate saṃgaṃ bhūya eva yathā mayā ..
priyaiḥ sa labhate vāsamekarātraṃ vasannṛpa .. 5 ..

he shall obtain union with that person again, just as I did; / staying for a single night, he attains residence with his loved ones, O king.’ // 5

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14.57.6

phaladānaṃ praśaṃsaṃti tatra brāhmaṇasattamāḥ ..
vaṃdhyānāṃ ca viśeṣeṇa yataḥ putraphalaṃ labhet .. 6 ..

The best among brahmins praise the giving of fruit there, / especially for barren women, because one obtains the fruit of sons. // 6

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14.57.57

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe tṛtīye'rbudakhaṇḍe'viyuktakṣetramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptapañcāśattamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 57 ..

Thus ends the fifty-seventh chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of the Aviyuktakṣetra", in the third section, the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh book, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. // 57

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