[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.112 # Skandapurana 16.112 Skandapurāṇa 16.112 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.112.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi lakṣmaṇeśvaramuttamam .. rāmeśātpūrvadigbhāge dhanustriṃśakasaṃsthitam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the supreme Lakṣmaṇeśvara, / situated thirty bow-lengths to the east of Rāmeśa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.112.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112.2) sthāpitaṃ lakṣmaṇenaiva tatra yātrāgatena vai .. mahāpāpaharaṃ devi talliṃgaṃ surapūjitam .. 2 .. > It was installed indeed by Lakṣmaṇa when he had gone there on pilgrimage; / that liṅga, worshipped by the gods, removes great sin, O goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.112.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112.3) yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā nṛtyagītādivādanaiḥ .. homajāpyaiḥ samādhisthaḥ sa yāti paramāṃ gatim .. 3 .. > Whoever worships it with devotion, with dances, songs, musical instruments, and the like, / with oblations and recitations, steady in concentration, goes to the supreme state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.112.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112.4) annodakaṃ hiraṇyaṃ ca tatra deyaṃ dvijātaye .. saṃpūjya devadeveśaṃ gaṃdhapuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt .. .. 4 .. > Food, water, and gold should be given there to a twice-born, / having worshipped the god of the gods of gods duly with fragrant paste, flowers, and the like. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.112.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112.5) māghe kṛṣṇacaturdaśyāṃ viśeṣastatra pūjane .. snānaṃ dānaṃ japastatra bhavedakṣayakārakam .. 5 .. > On the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Māgha, there is special merit in worship there; / ritual ablution, gifting, and recitation there become the cause of imperishable \[merit\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.112.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112.112) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye rāmeśvarakṣetramāhātmye lakṣmaṇeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvādaśottaraśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ .. 112 .. > Thus ends the one hundred and twelfth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Lakṣmaṇeśvara in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Rāmeśvara', in the first \[part\], the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Prabhāsa, in the seventh \[section\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.112.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.112) · Pramāṇa