[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) › 16.117 # Skandapurana 16.117 Skandapurāṇa 16.117 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.117.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi bhūtanātheśvaraṃ haram.. kuṇḍeśvaryā īśabhāge dhanuṣāṃ viṃśake'ntare .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to Hara, the lord of Bhūtanātha, / in the north-east direction of Kuṇḍeśvarī, at an interval of twenty bows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.2) kalpaliṃgaṃ mahādevi hyanādinidhanaṃ sthitam .. pūrvaṃ tretāyuge devi vīrabhadreśvarīti ca .. 2 .. > O great goddess, this is a liṅga of a cosmic age, standing without beginning or end. / Formerly, in the Tretā age, O goddess, it was known as Vīrabhadreśvara, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.3) prakhyātaṃ bhuvi deveśi kalau bhūteśvaraṃ smṛtam .. purā dvāparasaṃdhau ca tatra bhūtāni koṭiśaḥ ..3.. > renowned on earth, O ruler of gods, and in the Kali age it is recorded as Bhūteśvara. / Anciently, at the junction of the Dvāpara age, millions of spirits there > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.4) saṃsiddhiṃ paramāṃ jagmustalliṃgasya prabhāvataḥ .. tena bhūteśvaraṃ nāma prakhyātaṃ dharaṇītale.. .. 4 .. > attained supreme perfection through the power of that liṅga. / Therefore it became celebrated on the surface of the earth by the name Bhūteśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.5) tatra kṛṣṇacaturddaśyāṃ rātrau saṃpūjya śaṃkaram .. dakṣiṇāṃ diśamāśritya aghoraṃ pūjayettu yaḥ .. 5 .. > Having worshipped Śaṃkara there at night on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight, / whoever turns toward the southern direction and worships Aghora, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.6) dṛḍhaṃ jitendriyo bhūtvā nirbhayo dhyānasaṃyu taḥ .. tasyaiva jāyate siddhiryā kācidbhūtale sthitā .. 6 .. > being firmly self-controlled, fearless, and absorbed in meditation, / to him alone belongs whatever perfection exists on the face of the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.7) tilahemapradānaṃ ca piṇḍadānaṃ ca tatra vai .. pitṝnuddiśya dadyādvai teṣāṃ pretatvamuktaye .. .. 7 .. > A gift of sesame seeds and gold, as well as an offering of rice balls, / one should indeed make there dedicated to the ancestors, for their release from the state of ghosts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.8) iti nigaditametadbhūtanātheśvarasya pracurakalimalānāṃ nāśanaṃ puṇyahetuḥ .. paṭhati ca puruṣo vā yaḥ śṛṇotīha bhaktyā suravaramahimānaṃ mucyate pātakaughaiḥ .. 8 .. > Thus has this \[glory\] of Bhūtanātheśvara been related, which destroys abundant impurities of the Kali age and causes merit. / Whatever man recites it, or whoever hears with devotion this greatness of the best of gods, is freed from masses of sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.117.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117.117) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kuṃḍeśvarī māhātmye bhūtanātheśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptadaśottaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 117 .. > Thus ends the one hundred and seventeenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Bhūtanātheśvara' in the Glory of Kuṇḍeśvarī, 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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.117.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.117) · Pramāṇa