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# Skandapurana 16.138

Skandapurāṇa 16.138

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.138.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.138.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.138.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.138.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.138.1) — English, machine translation

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