Skandapurana 16.175
Skandapurāṇa 16.175
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16.175.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi puṇyamarkasthalaṃ śubham ..
tasmādāgneyakoṇasthaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the auspicious and holy Arkasthala, / which destroys all sins and is situated in the southeast quarter from that [place]. (1)
16.175.2
taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānuṣo devi na śocyaḥ saṃprajāyate ..
sapta janmāni deveśi dāridryaṃ naiva jāyate .. 2 ..
Having seen it, O goddess, a mortal does not become sorrowful; / for seven births, O ruler of the gods, poverty does not arise at all. (2)
16.175.3
kuṣṭhāni nāśamāyāṃti taṃ dṛṣṭvā daśadhā priye ..
gośatasya pradattasya kurukṣetreṣu yatphalam .. 3 ..
The ten kinds of leprosy go to destruction upon seeing it, O dear one. / Whatever fruit is obtained from donating a hundred cows in Kurukṣetra, (3)
16.175.4
tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti dṛṣṭvā vārkasthalaṃ ravim ..
snātvā trisaṃgame tīrthe saptaiva ravivāsarān ..4..
that fruit one attains upon seeing the Sun of Arkasthala. / Having bathed at the Trisaṅgama tīrtha for seven Sundays, (4)
16.175.5
brāhmaṇānbhojayitvā tu mahiṣīṃ tatra dāpayet ..
divyaṃ varṣasahasraṃ tu svargaloke mahīyate .. 5 ..
and having fed brahmins, one should donate a female buffalo there. / For a thousand divine years, he is glorified in the heavenly world. (5)
16.175.175
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye'rkasthalamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcasaptatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 175 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-fifth chapter, named “Description of the Māhātmya of Arkasthala,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [khaṇḍa], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. (175)
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