Skandapurana 16.138
Skandapurāṇa 16.138
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16.138.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva paścime bhāge dhanupāṃ pañcake sthitam ..
tṛṇabindvīśvaraṃnāma tīvrabhaktyā pratiṣṭhitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
On its western side, situated at a distance of five bows' lengths,
is the one named Tṛṇabindvīśvara, established with intense devotion. (1)
16.138.2
kṛtvā mahattapo devi tṛṇabiṃdumu nīśvaraḥ ..
māsimāsi kuśāgreṇa jalabiṃduṃ nipīya vai .. 2 ..
Having performed great austerity, O goddess, the lord of sages Tṛṇabindu,
drinking month by month a single drop of water from the tip of a kuśa grass, (2)
16.138.3
saṃvatsarāṇyanekāni evamārādhya ceśvaram ..
saṃprāptaṃ paramāṃ siddhiṃ kṣetre prābhāsike śubhe .. 3 ..
and thus propitiating Īśvara for many years,
attained supreme perfection in the auspicious sacred field of Prabhāsa. (3)
16.138.138
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye tṛṇabiṃdvīśvaramāhātmya varṇanaṃnāmāṣṭātriṃśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 138 ..
Thus ends the one hundred thirty-eighth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Tṛṇabindvīśvara', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. (138)
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