[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.179 # Skandapurana 16.179 Skandapurāṇa 16.179 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.179.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.179.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ pāpapraṇāśanam .. siddheśāddakṣiṇe koṇe dhanuṣāṃ tritaye sthitam .. māṇḍavyeśvaranāmānaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the liṅga that destroys sin, / situated in the south corner, three bow-lengths from Siddheśa, / named Māṇḍavyeśvara, destroying heinous sins. 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.179.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.179.2) māghe māse caturdaśyāṃ pūjāṃ jāgaraṇaṃ tathā .. kuryādyo'tīndriyo martyo na sa martye punarvrajet .. 2 .. > A mortal who, subduing the senses, performs worship and a vigil / on the fourteenth day of the month of Māgha, does not return to the mortal world. 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.179.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.179.179) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsajñetramāhātmye māṇḍavyeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonā śītyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 179 .. > Thus ends the hundred and seventy-ninth chapter, named 'Description of the māhātmya of Māṇḍavyeśvara', 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. 179 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.179.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.179) · Pramāṇa