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# Skandapurana 16.162

Skandapurāṇa 16.162

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.162.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.162.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.162.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.162.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.162.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmyam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.prabhasakshetramahatmyam.171.1) — Sanskrit

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