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.
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,
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.
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.
16.149.5
strīsahasrairvṛto nityaṃ krīḍate devava ddivi .. 5 ..
Surrounded constantly by thousands of women, he sports in heaven like a god.
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.
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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