Skandapurana 16.162
Skandapurāṇa 16.162
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16.162.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi tasmāddakṣiṇataḥ sthitam ..
lakṣmaṇeśācca pūrvasmim̐lliṃgamaṣṭakuleśvaram .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga Aṣṭakuleśvara, situated to the south of that / and to the east of Lakṣmaṇeśa.
16.162.2
sarvapāpapraśamanaṃ mahāviṣapraṇāśanam ..
pūjitaṃ siddhagandharvairvāñchitārthapradāyakam .. 2 ..
It dispels all sins and completely destroys great poisons; / worshipped by siddhas and gandharvas, it bestows desired objects.
16.162.3
yastaṃ pūjayate martyaḥ kṛṣṇāṣṭamyāṃ vidhānataḥ ..
sa muktaḥ pātakairghorairnāgaloke mahīyate .. 3 ..
Whatever mortal worships it according to the injunctions on the dark eighth [lunar day], / freed from terrible sins, is glorified in the world of nāgas.
16.162.162
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye'ṣṭakuleśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dviṣaṣṭyuttara śatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 162 ..
Thus ends the one hundred sixty-second chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Aṣṭakuleśvara', in the first [section,] the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [book,] the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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