Skandapurana 16.143
Skandapurāṇa 16.143
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16.143.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi vicitreśvaramuttamam ..
tasyaiva pūrvadigbhāge kiñcidāgneyagocare ..
dhanuṣāṃ daśake tatra sthitaṃ pāpapraṇāśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Vicitreśvara, / located in the eastern direction from it, slightly within the range of the southeast, / standing at a distance of ten bows there, destroying sins. // 1
16.143.2
vicitreṇa mahādevi lekha kena yamasya ca ..
sthāpitaṃ tanmahāliṃgaṃ tapaḥ kṛtvā suduścaram .. 2 ..
O great goddess, by Vicitra, the scribe of Yama, / that great liṅga was established after performing very severe austerity. // 2
16.143.3
taṃ dṛṣṭvā pūjitaṃ caiva muktaḥ syātsarvapātakaiḥ ..
saṃpūjya ca vidhānena na duḥkhī jāyate naraḥ .. 3 ..
Having seen and worshipped it, one becomes freed from all sins; / and having worshipped it according to the rule, a person does not become miserable. // 3
16.143.143
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetra māhātmye vicitreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma tricatvāriṃśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 143 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and forty-third chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Vicitreśvara,' in the first [part], Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses]. // 143
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