Skandapurana 16.176
Skandapurāṇa 16.176
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16.176.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi siddheśvaramiti smṛtam ..
arkasthalāttathā''gneyyāṃ nātidūre vyavasthitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to what is known as Siddheśvara, / situated not very far off in the southeast from Arkasthala. (1)
16.176.2
aṣṭādaśa sahasrāṇi ṛṣīṇāmūrdhvaretasām ..
tasmim̐lliṃge tu siddhāni siddheśvaramataḥ smṛtam .. 2 ..
Eighteen thousand chaste seers / attained perfection at that liṅga; hence it is known as Siddheśvara. 2
16.176.176
snātvā'rcayennaro bhaktyā sopavāso jitendriyaḥ ..
saṃpūjya vidhivaddevaṃ dadyādvipreṣu dakṣiṇām ..
sarvakāmasamṛddhastu sa yāti paramaṃ padam .. . ..
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāharūyā saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsajñetramāhātmye siddheśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṭsaptatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 176 ..
Having bathed, a person should worship it with devotion, fasting and with senses controlled. / Having duly worshipped the god, he should give a fee to the brahmins; / fulfilled of all desires, he goes to the supreme abode.
Thus ends the hundred and seventy-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the māhātmya of Siddheśvara', in the first [part], the Māhātmya of Prabhāsa Sacred Field, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 176
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