Skandapurana 16.160
Skandapurāṇa 16.160
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16.160.1
.. .. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi rājabhaṭṭārakaṃ param ..
raivantakaṃ sūryaputramaśvārūḍhaṃ mahābalam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the supreme Rājabhaṭṭāraka, / Raivantaka, the son of the Sun, mounted on a horse, endowed with great strength,
16.160.2
saṃsthitaṃ kṣetramadhye tu sāvitryā nairṛte priye ..
taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavo devi sarvāpadbhyo vimucyate ..2..
situated in the middle of the sacred field to the south-west of Sāvitrī, O beloved; / having seen him, O goddess, a human being is delivered from all distress.
16.160.3
ravivāreṇa saptamyāṃ yastaṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..
tasyā'nvaye'pi no devi daridrī jāyate naraḥ..3..
The person who worships him on a Sunday on the seventh lunar day— / even in his lineage, O goddess, no person becomes impoverished.
16.160.4
tasmātsarvaprayatnena tamevārādhayenmanāk ..
nirvighnaṃ kṣetravāsārthaṃ rājā vā'śvavivṛddhaye .. 4 ..
Therefore, with every effort, one should worship only him for a while, / for dwelling in the sacred field without obstacles, or a king [should worship him] for the increase of horses.
16.160.160
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye raivaṃtakarājabhaṭṭārakamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṣṭyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 160 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and sixtieth chapter, named "Description of the Greatness of Raivantaka-Rājabhaṭṭāraka", 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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