Skandapurana 16.157
Skandapurāṇa 16.157
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16.157.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi satyabhāmeśvaraṃ śubham ..
ratneśvarāddakṣiṇe tu dhanuṣāṃtaramāsthitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the auspicious Satyabhāmeśvara, / situated at a distance of one bow to the south of Ratneśvara,
16.157.2
sarvapāpapraśamanaṃ sthāpitaṃ satyabhāmayā ..
kṛṣṇasya kāntayā devi rūpaudāryasametayā .. 2 ..
which relieves all sins and was installed by Satyabhāmā, / Kṛṣṇa's beloved wife, O goddess, endowed with beauty and nobility.
16.157.3
snātvā tadvaiṣṇavaṃ sthānaṃ nṛṇāṃ pātakanāśanam .. 3 ..
Having bathed there, that Vaiṣṇava place destroys the sins of men.
16.157.4
māghe māsi tṛtīyāyāṃ nārī vā puruṣo'pi vā ..
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā sa muktaḥ pātakairbhavet .. 4 ..
In the month of Māgha on the third lunar day, whether a woman or a man, / whoever worships it with devotion becomes freed from sins.
16.157.5
daurbhāgyaduḥkhaśokebhyastathā vighnaiśca duḥkhitaḥ ..
mucyate nātra saṃdehaḥ satyabhāmānvito bhavet .. 5 ..
One who is distressed by misfortune, sorrow, and grief, as well as by obstacles, / is freed—of this there is no doubt—and will be endowed with true splendour.
16.157.157
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye satyabhāmeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptapañcāśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 157 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-seventh chapter, named "Description of the Greatness of Satyabhāmeśvara", in the first [part], the "Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya", in the seventh section, the "Prabhāsakhaṇḍa", of the glorious Skandamahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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