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# Skandapurana 16.169

Skandapurāṇa 16.169

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.169.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.169.1)

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..  
tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ vaivasvateśvaram..  
devyā dakṣiṇadigbhāge dhanustriṃśakasaṃsthitam .. 1 ..

> Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga Vaivasvateśvara, / situated thirty bow-lengths to the southern direction of the Goddess, (1)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.169.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.169.2)

vaivasvatena manunā sthāpitaṃ sarvakāmadam..  
tatsamīpe devakhātaṃ tiṣṭhate tu mahādbhutam .. 2 ..

> installed by Vaivasvata Manu, granting all desires. / Near it is situated a most wonderful divine tank. (2)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.169.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.169.3)

snātvā tatra varārohe yastaṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..  
pañcopacārairvidhinā bhaktiprahvo jitendriyaḥ ..  
japedaghoravidhinā stotraṃ siddhiṃ sa cāpnuyāt .. .. 3 ..

> Having bathed there, O lady of fair hips, that man who worships it / with five modes of worship according to the rite, bowed down in devotion and with senses conquered, / and chants the hymn according to the rite of Aghora, shall attain perfection. (3)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.169.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.169.169)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye vaivasvateśvaramāhātmya varṇanaṃnāmaikonasaptatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 169 ..

> Thus ends the one hundred sixty-ninth chapter, named ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Vaivasvateśvara,’ in the first \[sub-section\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. (169)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.169.1) — English, machine translation

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