Skandapurana 16.115
Skandapurāṇa 16.115
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16.115.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi puṣkareśvaramuttamam ..
tasyaiva dakṣiṇe bhāge jānakīśvaramuttamam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the supreme Puṣkareśvara; / to the south of it is the supreme Jānakīśvara.
16.115.2
liṃgaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ tu brahmaputreṇa pūjitam ..
sanatkumāramuninā śraddhayā hema puṣkaraiḥ .. 2 ..
The liṅga is indeed of great efficacy, worshipped by the son of Brahmā, / the sage Sanatkumāra, with devotion and golden lotuses.
16.115.3
pūjitaṃ tadvidhānena tena tatpuṣkareśvaram ..
khyātaṃ tatra varārohe sarvapātakanāśanam .. 3 ..
It was worshipped according to the ritual for it; therefore it is known there as Puṣkareśvara, / O fair-hipped lady, destroying all wicked deeds.
16.115.4
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā gaṃṣapuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt ..
yātrā kṛtā bhavettena pauṣkarī nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 4 ..
Whoever worships it with devotion in proper sequence, with perfumes, flowers, and the like, / by him the pilgrimage to Puṣkara has indeed been performed; of this there is no doubt.
16.115.115
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye vāmanasvāmimāhātmye puṣkareśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcadaśottaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 115 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and fifteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Puṣkareśvara' in the Glory of Vāmanasvāmin, in the first [part], the Glory of the Sacred Field of Prabhāsa, in the seventh [book], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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