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Skandapurana 16.127

Skandapurāṇa 16.127

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16.127.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi kṣemeśvaramanuttamam ..
tasmāduttarakoṇasthaṃ kapāleśāgnigocare .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the unsurpassed Kṣemeśvara, / situated in the northern corner from there, in the range of Kapāleśa's south-east direction.

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16.127.2

dhanuṣāṃ paṃcadaśake kapāleśvarataḥ sthitam ..
liṃgaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ hi sarvapātakanāśanam .. 2 ..

Situated at fifteen bows from Kapāleśvara, / that liṅga is indeed of great efficacy, destroying all sins.

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16.127.3

kṣemamūrtiḥ purā rājā babhūva sa mahābalaḥ ..
tena tatra tapastaptaṃ cirakālaṃ mahātmanā .. .. 3 ..

In ancient times there was a king, Kṣemamūrti, of great strength; / by that great-souled one, tapas was performed there for a long time.

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16.127.4

tataḥ saṃsthāpitaṃ liṃgaṃ bhaktyā bhāvitacetasā ..
taddṛṣṭvā kṣemamāyāti kāryaṃ kṣemeṇa siddhyati .. 4 ..

Then the liṅga was installed by him with devotion, his mind concentrated. / Having seen it, one attains well-being; one's undertaking succeeds with security.

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16.127.5

sarvakāmasamṛddhātmā bhūyā jjanmanijanmani ..
evaṃ kṣemeśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ khyātaṃ pātakanāśanam .. 5 ..

He becomes abundant in all desires birth after birth. / Thus the liṅga Kṣemeśvara is famed as destroying sins,

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16.127.6

sarvakāmapradaṃ nṛṇāṃ śrutaṃ saubhāgyadāyakam ..
darśanenāpi tasyāpi gośatasya phalaṃ smṛtam .. 6 ..

granting all desires to men, and heard to bestow good fortune. / Even by the darśana of it, the fruit of a hundred cows is taught.

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16.127.7

tasmātkṣetraphalākāṃkṣī nityaṃ talliṃgamāśrayet .. 7 ..

Therefore, one desiring the fruit of the sacred field should constantly resort to that liṅga.

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16.127.127

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kṣemaṃkareśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptaviṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 127 ..

Thus, in the holy Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the collection of eighty-one thousand [verses], in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the first Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, the description of the greatness of Kṣemaṃkareśvara, being the one hundred twenty-seventh chapter. 127.

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