[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) › 16.129 # Skandapurana 16.129 Skandapurāṇa 16.129 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.129.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi akṣamāleśvaraṃ param .. sāgarārkādīśakoṇe paṃcāśaddhanuṣāntare .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the supreme Akṣamāleśvara, / in the northeast corner from Sāgarārka, at a distance of fifty bows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.2) saṃsthitaṃ pāpaśamanaṃ yugaliṃgaṃ mahāprabham .. akṣamāleśvaraṃnāma purā tasya prakīrtitam .. ugraseneśvaraṃ nāma khyātaṃ tasyaiva sāmpratam .. 2.. > Situated \[there\] is a pair of liṅgas of great splendour that pacifies sin; / formerly its name was proclaimed as Akṣamāleśvara, / \[and\] now that very \[liṅga\] is famous under the name Ugraseneśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.3) .. devyuvāca .. .. akṣamāleśvaraṃ nāma yatpūrvaṃ samudāhṛtam .. kathaṃ tadabhavaddeva kathayasva prasādataḥ .. 3 .. > The Goddess said: / The name Akṣamāleśvara, which was previously mentioned, / how did that come about, O God? Please tell me through your grace. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.4) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. āsītpurā mahādevi satī cādha mayonijā .. akṣamāleti vai nāmnā satīdharmaparāyaṇā .. 4 .. > Īśvara said: / Formerly, O great goddess, there was a chaste woman born from a base womb, / Akṣamālā by name, devoted to the duties of a chaste wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.5) kadācitsamanuprāpte durbhikṣe kālaparyayāt .. ṛṣayaśca mahādevi kṣudhākrāntā vicetasaḥ .. 5 .. > Once, when a famine occurred through the turning of time, / the seers, O great goddess, overcome by hunger, lost their senses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.6) sarve cānnaṃ parīpsaṃto gatāścaṇḍālaveśmani .. jñātvānnasaṃgrahaṃ tasya prārthayāñcakrurantyajam .. 6 .. > All desiring to obtain food, they went to the house of an outcaste. / Learning that he had a store of grain, they begged the outcaste: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.7) bhobho'ntyaja mahābuddhe rakṣāsmānannadānataḥ .. prāṇasaṃdehamāpannānkṛśāṃgānkṣutprapīḍitān .. 7 .. > “O outcaste, O you of great understanding, save us by giving food, / who have reached danger of our lives, whose limbs are emaciated, tormented by hunger! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.8) aho dhanyo'si pūjyo'si na tvamantyaja ucyase .. yadasminpralaye yāte sthitaṃ dhānyaṃ gṛhe tava .. 8 .. > Ah, you are blessed, you are worthy of honor; you are not called an outcaste, / since, when this dissolution has arrived, grain remains in your house! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.9) anāvṛṣṭihate deśe sasye ca pralayaṃ gate .. ekaṃ yo bhojayedvipraṃ koṭirbhavati bhojitā .. 9 .. > When the land is struck by drought and the crops have perished, / whoever feeds one brahmin, it is as if ten million have been fed.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.10) .. antyaja uvāca .. aho āścaryamatulaṃ yadetaddṛśyate'dhunā .. yadetanmadgṛhaṃ prāptā ṛṣayaścānnakāṃkṣiṇaḥ .. 7.1.129.10 .. > The outcaste said: / “Ah, what an incomparable marvel is seen here now, / that these seers have arrived at my house desiring food! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.11) śūdrānnamapi nādeyaṃ brāhmaṇaiḥ kimutāntyajāt .. 11 .. > Even the food of a śūdra is not to be taken by brahmins, how much less from an outcaste? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.12) āmaṃ vā yadi vā pakvaṃ śūdrānnaṃ yastu bhakṣati .. sa bhavecchūkaro grāmyastasya vā jāyate kule .. 12 .. > Whether raw or cooked, whoever eats the food of a śūdra / becomes a village pig, or is born into that \[pig’s\] family. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.13) amṛtaṃ bāhmaṇasyānnaṃ kṣatriyānnaṃ payaḥ smṛtam .. vaiśyānnamannamityāhuḥ śūdrānnaṃ rudhiraṃ smṛtam .. 13 .. > The food of a brahmin is considered nectar; the food of a kṣatriya is milk; / they say the food of a vaiśya is \[mere\] food; the food of a śūdra is regarded as blood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.14) śūdrānnaṃ śūdrasaṃparkaṃ śūdreṇa ca sahāsanam .. śūdrādannāgamaścaiva jvalaṃtamapi pātayet .. 14 .. > A śūdra's food, contact with a śūdra, sitting together with a śūdra, / and the receipt of food from a śūdra will bring down even a blazing \[sage\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.15) agnihotrī tu yo vipraḥ śūdrānnānna nivartate .. ete tasya praṇaśyaṃti ātmā brahma trayo'gnayaḥ .. 15 .. > A brahmin who maintains the sacred fire, if he does not turn away from a śūdra's food, / these perish for him: his self, the Veda, and the three sacred fires. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.16) śūdrānnenodarasthena brāhmaṇo mriyate yadi .. ṣaṇmāsābhyantare vipraḥ piśācaḥ so'bhijāyate .. 16 .. > If a brahmin dies with the food of a śūdra remaining in his stomach, / that brahmin within six months is reborn as a piśāca. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.17) śūdrānnena dvijo yastu agnihotraṃ juhoti ca .. caṇḍālo jāyate pretya śūdrāccaiveha daivataḥ .. 17 .. > A twice-born who performs the agnihotra offering with the food of a śūdra / is born after death as an outcaste, and in this life his deity becomes a śūdra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.18) yastu bhuñjati śūdrānnaṃ māsamekaṃ nirantaram.. iha janmani śūdratvaṃ mṛtaḥ śūdro'bhijāyate .. 18 .. > Whoever eats the food of a śūdra continuously for a month / attains the state of a śūdra in this life, and dying, is reborn a śūdra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.19) rājānnaṃ teja ādatte śūdrānnaṃ brahmavarcasam.. āyuḥ suvarṇakārānnaṃ yaśaścarmāvakartinaḥ .. 19 .. > A king's food takes away splendor; a śūdra's food takes away sacred luster; / a goldsmith's food takes away longevity; a leather-cutter's food takes away fame. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.20) kārukānnaṃ prajā hanti balaṃ nirṇejakasya ca .. gaṇānnaṃ gaṇikānnaṃ ca lokebhyaḥ parikṛntati .. 7.1.129.20 .. > An artisan's food destroys offspring; a washerman's food destroys strength; / the food of a guild and the food of a courtesan cut one off from the \[heavenly\] worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.21) pūyaṃ cikitsakasyānnaṃ puṃścalyāścānnamindriyam.. viṣṭhā vārdhuṣikasyānnaṃ śastravikrayiṇo malam .. 21 .. > The food of a physician is pus; the food of an unchaste woman is semen; / the food of a usurer is excrement; the food of a weapons-dealer is filth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.22) sahasrakṛtvastveteṣāmanne yadbhakṣite bhavet .. tadekavāraṃ bhuktena kanyāvikrayiṇo bhavet .. 22 .. > Whatever \[sin\] there would be from eating the food of these a thousand times / occurs by eating once the food of one who sells his daughter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.23) sahasrakṛtvastasyaiva bhukte'nne yatphalaṃ bhavet .. tadantyajānāmannena sakṛdbhuktena vai bhavet .. 23 .. > Whatever consequence there would be from eating his food a thousand times / indeed occurs by eating the food of outcastes only once. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.24) tatkathaṃ mama viprendrāścaṃḍālasyādhamātmanaḥ .. dharmamevaṃ vijānanto nūnamannaṃ jihīrṣatha .. 24 .. .. > Then how is it, O best of brahmins, that knowing dharma thus, / you surely wish to take the food of me, a base-minded outcaste?” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.25) .. ṛṣaya ūcuḥ .. .. jīvitātyayamāpanno yo'nnamādriyate tataḥ .. ākāśa iva paṃkena na sa pāpena lipyate .. 25 .. > The seers said: / “One who has encountered danger to his life, who accepts food from anywhere, / is not smeared with sin, just as the sky is not smeared by mud. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.26) ajīgartaḥ sutaṃ haṃtumupasarpanbubhukṣitaḥ .. na cālipyata pāpena kṣutpratīghātamācaran .. 26 .. > Ajīgarta, starving, approached to kill his son, / and he was not smeared with sin, acting to ward off hunger. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.27) bhāradvājaḥ kṣudhārtastu saputro vijane vane .. bahvīrgā upajagrāha bṛhajjyotirmahāmanāḥ .. 27 .. > And Bhāradvāja, distressed by hunger with his son in a lonely forest, / accepted many cows—he of great brilliance, great-minded. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.28) kṣudhārto gītamabhyāgādviśvāmitraḥ śvajāghanīm .. caṇḍālahastādādāya dharmādharmavicakṣaṇaḥ .. 28 .. > Viśvāmitra, distressed by hunger, discerning what is dharma and not dharma, / came to sing \[praise\], taking the haunch of a dog from the hand of an outcaste. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.29) śvamāṃsamicchannartau tu dharmānna cyayate sma saḥ .. prāṇānāṃ parirakṣārthaṃ vāmadevo na liptavān .. 29 .. > Desiring dog's flesh in a time of distress, he did not fall from dharma; / for the sake of preserving life, Vāmadeva was not tainted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.30) evaṃ jñātvā dharmabuddhe sāṃprataṃ mā vicāraya .. dadasvānnaṃ dadasvānnamasmākamiha yācatām.. 7.1.129.30 .. > Knowing this, O you of righteous mind, do not hesitate now! / Give food, give food to us who are begging here!” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.31) .. caṃḍāla uvāca .. .. yadyevaṃ bhavatāṃ kāryamidamaṃgīkṛtaṃ dhuvam.. tadiyaṃ matsutā kanyā bhavadbhiḥ parigṛhyatām .. 31 .. > The outcaste said: / “If indeed this task is certainly accepted by you, / then let this daughter of mine, a maiden, be taken by you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.32) bhavatāṃ yograṇīrjyeṣṭhaḥ sa cemāmudvaheddhruvam .. dāsye varṣāśanaṃ paścādīpsitaṃ bhavatāṃ dvijāḥ .. 32 .. > Whoever is your foremost leader and eldest, let him certainly marry her. / Afterwards, O twice-born, I shall give you your desired year's supply of food.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.33) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. ityuktā ṛṣayo devi lajjayā''natakandharāḥ .. pratyālocya yathānyāyaṃ vasiṣṭhaṃ samanūdvahan.. 33 .. > Īśvara said: / Addressed thus, O goddess, the seers, their necks bowed in shame, / conferred according to proper rule and directed \[the proposal\] to Vasiṣṭha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.34) vasiṣṭho'pi samākhyāya āpaddharmaṃ mahāmanāḥ .. kālasyānantaraprekṣī prodvavāhā'ntyajāṅganām .. akṣamāleti vai nāmnīṃ prasiddhā bhuvanatraye .. 34 .. > Vasiṣṭha also, the great-minded, having explained the duty in times of distress / and looking to the needs of the moment, married the outcaste woman / named Akṣamālā, famed in the three worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.35) yadā svakīyatejobhirarkabiṃbamarundhata .. aruṃdhatī tadā jātā devadānava vaṃditā .. 35 .. > When she obstructed the disc of the sun by her own splendors, / she then became Arundhatī, praised by gods and demons. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.36) yādṛśena tu bhartrā strī saṃyujyeta yathāvidhi .. sā tādṛgeva bhavati samudreṇeva nimnagā .. 36 .. > Whatever sort of husband a woman is joined to according to rule, / she becomes just of that sort, like a river joined with the ocean. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.37) akṣamālā vasiṣṭhena saṃyuktā'dhama yonijā .. śārṅgīva mandapālena jagāma hyarhaṇīyatām .. 37 .. > Akṣamālā, born of a base womb, united with Vasiṣṭha, / attained worshipfulness, just as the female śārṅga bird did through Mandapāla. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.38) evaṃ kālakrameṇaiva prabhāsaṃ kṣetramāgatāḥ .. saptarṣayo mahātmāno hyaruṃdhatyā samanvitāḥ .. 38 .. > Thus, in the course of time, the great-souled Seven Seers / together with Arundhatī came to the Prabhāsa sacred field. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.39) tīrthāni preṣayāmāsuḥ sarvasiddhipradāni tām .. 39 .. > They sent her to the sacred fords that grant all perfections. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.40) eṣāmanveṣamāṇānāṃ tava devī hyaruṃdhatī.. apaśyalliṃgamekaṃ tu vṛkṣajālāṃtare sthitam .. 7.1.129.40 .. > While they were searching, your goddess Arundhatī / saw a single liṅga situated within a cluster of trees. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.41) taṃ dṛṣṭvā devadeveśamevaṃ jātismarā'bhavat .. pūrvasmiñjanmani mayā rajobhāvāṃtarasthayā .. 41 .. > Seeing that lord of the gods of gods, she thus remembered her previous birth: / “In a previous birth, while I was in the state of menstruation, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.42) ajñānabhāvāddeveśo nūnaṃ cātrārcitaḥ. śivaḥ .. tasmātkarmaphalaṃ prāptamantyajatvaṃ dvijanmanā .. 42.. > through ignorance the lord of gods, Śiva, was surely worshipped by me here. / From that the fruit of action was obtained: outcaste status by one twice-born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.43) kastena sadṛśo devaḥ śaṃbhunā bhuvanatraye .. rājyaṃ niyamināmevaṃ yo ruṣṭo'pi prayacchati .. 43 .. > What god is equal to that Śambhu in the three worlds, / who, even when angered, gives sovereignty to the self-restrained in this way?” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.44) iti saṃciṃtya manasā tatraiva niratā'bhavat .. pūjayāmāsa talliṃgaṃ divyābdānāṃ śataṃ priye .. 44 .. > Reflecting thus in her mind, she became devoted right there; / she worshipped that liṅga for a hundred divine years, O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.45) evaṃ tasya prabhāvena dṛśyate gaganāṃtare .. aruṃdhatī satī hyeṣā dṛṣṭā duṣkṛtanāśinī .. 45 .. > Thus, by its power, this chaste Arundhatī is seen in the sky, / who, when beheld, destroys evil deeds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.46) akṣamāleśvarastvevaṃ yathāvatkathitastava .. tatastu dvāparasyānte kalau saṃdhyāṃśake gate .. 46 ... > Thus Akṣamāleśvara has been recounted to you as it truly happened. / Then, at the end of the Dvāpara age, when the twilight portion of the Kali age had arrived... > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.47) aṃdhāsurasutaścāsīdugrasena iti śrutaḥ .. sa prabhāsaṃ samāsādya putrārthaṃ liṃgameyivān .. 47 .. > And there was a son of the Asura Andhaka known as Ugrasena; / having reached Prabhāsa, he approached the liṅga for the sake of a son. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.48) akṣamāleśvaraṃ nāma jñātvā māhātmyamadbhutam .. samārādhya mahādevaṃ nava varṣāṇi paṃca ca .. saṃprāptavāṃstadā putraṃ kaṃsāsuramiti śrutam .. 48 .. > Having learned the wondrous māhātmya of the one named Akṣamāleśvara, / and having propitiated Mahādeva for fourteen years, / he then obtained a son known as the Asura Kaṃsa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.49) tatkālāntaramārabhya ugraseneśvaro'bhavat .. pāpaghnaṃ sarvajaṃtūnāṃ darśanātsparśanādapi .. 49 .. > Beginning from that time, it became Ugraseneśvara, / destroying the sin of all creatures by its very darśana and touch. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.50) brahmahatyā surāpānaṃ steyaṃ gurvaṃganāgamaḥ .. mahānti pātakānyāhurnaśyaṃti tasya darśanāt .. 7.1.129.50 .. > Killing a brahmin, drinking wine, theft, and intercourse with the guru's wife— / these are called the great sins; they are destroyed by its darśana. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.51) tatraiva ṛṣipañcamyāṃ prāpte bhādrapade śubhe .. akṣamāleśvaraṃ pūjya mucyate nārakādbhayāt .. 51 .. > Right there on Ṛṣipañcamī, when auspicious Bhādrapada has arrived, / having worshipped Akṣamāleśvara, one is freed from the fear of hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.52) gopradānaṃ praśaṃsaṃti tatrānnamudakaṃ tathā .. sarvapāpavināśāya pretyānaṃtasukhāya ca .. 52 .. > They praise the gift of a cow there, and likewise food and water, / for the destruction of all sins and for unending bliss hereafter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.53) iti te kathitaṃ devi hyakṣamāleśvarodbhavam .. māhātmyaṃ pāpaśamanaṃ śrutaṃ duḥkhanibarhaṇam .. 53 .. > Thus has been told to you, O goddess, the origin of Akṣamāleśvara; / this māhātmya, which pacifies sin and removes sorrow, has been heard. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.129.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.129.129) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya ugraseneśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonatriṃśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 129 .. > Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Ugraseneśvara,' in the first \[section, the\] Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of 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.16.129.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Liṅgadhāraṇacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.virasaiva.lingadharanacandrika.9.27) — Nandikeśvara 1625, Sanskrit - [Madanapārijāta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.madanaparijata.3.p2.10) — Viśveśvarabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: 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