[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) › 16.114 # Skandapurana 16.114 Skandapurāṇa 16.114 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.114.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi viṣṇuṃ pāpapraṇāśanam .. vāmanasvāmināmānaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to Viṣṇu, the destroyer of sins, / named Vāmanasvāmin, the destroyer of all wicked deeds, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.2) puṣkarānnairṛte bhāge dhanurviśatibhiḥ smṛtam .. yadā baddho balirdevi viṣṇunā prabhaviṣṇunā .. 2 .. > recorded as twenty bow-lengths to the southwest of Puṣkara. / When Bali was bound, O goddess, by the all-powerful Viṣṇu, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.3) tadā tatra padaṃ nyastaṃ dakṣiṇaṃ viśvarūpiṇā .. dvitīyaṃ meruśṛṃge tu tṛtīyaṃ gagane priye .. 3 .. > at that time his right foot was placed there by him whose form is the universe; / the second on the peak of Meru, and the third in the sky, O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.4) yāvadūrdhvaṃ cotkṣipati tāvadbhinnaṃ sudūrataḥ .. pādāgreṇa tu brahmāṇḍaṃ niṣkrāntaṃ salilaṃ tataḥ .. 4 .. > As far upwards as he cast it, that far the cosmic egg was pierced from a great distance / by the tip of his foot, and water gushed forth from it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.5) tataḥ svajānumātreṇa saṃprāptaṃ pṛthivītale .. tato viṣṇupadī gaṃgā prasiddhimagamatkṣitau .. 5 .. > Then, rising just to his own knees, it reached the surface of the earth; / thence the Gaṅgā, flowing from Viṣṇu's foot, attained fame on earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.6) pūrvaṃ sā puṣkare prāptā puṣkarātsā mahānadī .. puṣkaraṃ kathyate vyoma puṣkaraṃ kathyate jalam .. tena tatpuṣkaraṃ khyātaṃ saṃnidhānaṃ prajāpateḥ .. 6 .. > First it reached Puṣkara; from Puṣkara \[flowed\] that great river. / The sky is called 'puṣkara', water is called 'puṣkara'; / therefore it is known as Puṣkara, the dwelling place of Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.7) tatra snānaṃ naraḥ kṛtvā yaḥ paśyati hareḥ padam .. sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo hariḥ svayam .. 7 .. > Having performed ritual ablution there, the person who sees the foot of Hari / goes to the supreme abode where the god Hari is himself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.8) tatra piṃḍapradānena tṛptiḥ syātkoṭivārṣikī .. pitṝṇāṃ ca varārohe hyetadāha hariḥ svayam .. 8 .. > By offering a funeral cake there, satisfaction lasts for ten million years / for the ancestors, O fair-hipped lady; indeed, Hari himself said this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.9) atra gāthā purā gītā vasiṣṭhena maharṣiṇā .. vāmanasvāminaṃ dṛṣṭvā tāṃ śṛṇuṣva samāhitā .. 9 .. > Here a verse was sung of old by the great seer Vasiṣṭha / upon seeing Vāmanasvāmin; listen to it with an attentive mind: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.10) snātvā tu puṣkare tīrthe dṛṣṭvā viṣṇupadaṃ tataḥ .. api kṛtvā mahatpāpaṃ kimataḥ paritapyate .. 7.1.114.10 .. > 'Having performed ritual ablution in the Puṣkara sacred ford and then seen Viṣṇu's foot, / even having committed great sin, why should one grieve further?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.11) yastatropānahau dadyādbrāhmaṇāya yatavrataḥ .. sa yānavaramārūḍho viṣṇuloke mahīyate .. 11 .. > Whoever, restrained in vows, gives a pair of sandals to a brahmin there, / mounted on an excellent aerial vehicle, is honoured in the world of Viṣṇu. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.114.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114.114) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetra māhātmye vāmanasvāmimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma caturdaśottaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 114 .. > Thus ends the one hundred and fourteenth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Vāmanasvāmin', 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.16.114.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.114) · Pramāṇa