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Skandapurana 16.151

Skandapurāṇa 16.151

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16.151.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva dakṣiṇe bhāge tṛtīyo bhairavaḥ sthita ..
brahmakuṇḍasamīpe tu sāvitryā saṃpratiṣṭhitaḥ .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / In the southern part of that very place stands the third Bhairava, / established by Sāvitrī near the Brahmakuṇḍa.

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16.151.2

ārādhya tatra deveśaṃ devānāṃ prapitāmaham ..
vāyubhakṣā nirāhārā toṣayāmāsa śaṃkaram .. 2 ..

Worshipping the lord of the gods there, the great-grandfather of the gods, / consuming only wind and taking no food, she gratified Śaṃkara.

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16.151.3

tuṣṭaḥ prāheśvaro devi śaṃkarastāṃ varānanām .. 3 ..

Pleased, the lord Śaṃkara, O goddess, said to that fair-faced lady:

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16.151.4

yo'sminkuṃḍe naraḥ snātvā malliṃgaṃ pūjayiṣyati ..
paurṇamāsyāṃ vidhānena gandhapuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt .. 4 ..

The man who, having bathed in this kuṇḍa, shall worship my liṅga / on the full moon day according to rule, with perfumes, flowers, and the rest in order,

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16.151.5

dāsyaṃ tasya varā niṣṭānmanasā'bhīsitāñchubhān .. 5 ..

I shall give him the auspicious boons he desires, firmly fixed in his mind.

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16.151.6

mahāpātakayukto'pi mukto bhavati pātakaiḥ ..
sarvakāmasamṛddhātmā sa bhūyādvṛṣabhadhvajaḥ .. 6 ..

Even though joined with great sins, he becomes liberated from sins; / with his soul abounding in all desires, he shall become the bull-bannered [Śiva].

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16.151.7

ityevamuktvā deveśi tato'ntardhānamāgataḥ ..
sāvitrī brahmaloke tu gatā saṃsthāpya śaṃkaram .. 7 ..

Having spoken thus, O ruler of gods, he then vanished; / and Sāvitrī, having established Śaṃkara, went to the world of Brahmā.

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16.151.8

iti saṃkṣepataḥ proktaṃ sāvitrīśamahodayam ..
śṛṇuyādyastu matimānsa muktaḥ pātakairbhavet .. 8 ..

Thus has been declared briefly the great rise of Sāvitrīśa; / the wise man who hears it becomes liberated from sins.

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16.151.151

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye brahmakuṇḍamāhātmye sāvitrīśvarabhairavamāhātmya- varṇanaṃnāmaikapaṃcāśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 151 ..

Thus ends the one hundred fifty-first chapter, entitled "The Description of the Māhātmya of Sāvitrīśvara-bhairava" in the Māhātmya of Brahmakuṇḍa, 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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