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Skandapurana 16.149

Skandapurāṇa 16.149

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16.149.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi bhairaveśvaramuttamam ..
brahmakuṇḍasya īśāne sthitaṃ pāpapraṇāśanam ..
caturvaktraṃ mahādevaṃ saṃsthitaṃ tīrtharakṣaṇe .. 1 ..

Īśvara said:
Then, O great goddess, one should go to the supreme Bhairaveśvara, / located to the northeast of Brahmakuṇḍa, destroying sin, / the four-faced Mahādeva standing in protection of the sacred ford.

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16.149.2

tatra snātvā mahākuṇḍe yastaṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..
paṃcopacāravidhinā bhaktiyukto yatendriyaḥ .. 2 ..

Having bathed there in the great pool, whatever man worships him / by the rite of five offerings, endowed with devotion, having restrained his senses,

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16.149.3

kulāni yānyatītāni bhaviṣyāṇi ca yāni vai ..
tārayetsa naro devi nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 3 ..

Whatever families are past, and whatever are yet to come, / that man liberates them, O goddess; no doubt should be had in this matter.

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16.149.4

na cātra saṃbhavastasya vināśo naiva jāyate ..
vimānaiścarate nityaṃ divākarasamaprabhaiḥ .. 4 ..

And for him there is no rebirth here, nor does destruction ever occur; / he travels constantly in aerial chariots possessing the brilliance of the sun.

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16.149.5

strīsahasrairvṛto nityaṃ krīḍate devava ddivi .. 5 ..

Surrounded constantly by thousands of women, he sports in heaven like a god.

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16.149.6

etalliṃgaṃ mahādevi caturvaktraṃ mahāprabham ..
dṛṣṭvāpi tadvimucyeta sarvapāpaistu mānavaḥ ..6..

Even upon merely seeing this four-faced, splendid liṅga, O great goddess, / a human being is freed from all sins.

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16.149.149

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye bhairaveśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonapaṃcāśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 149 .. .. cha .. ..

Thus ends the one hundred forty-ninth chapter, entitled "The Description of the Māhātmya of Bhairaveśvara," in the Māhātmya of Prabhāsa Sacred Field, the first [part] in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.

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