[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) › 16.180 # Skandapurana 16.180 Skandapurāṇa 16.180 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.180.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.180.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ paśyetpuṣpadanteśvaraṃ śubham .. puṣpadanteśvaronāma gaṇeśaḥ śaṃkarasya tu ..1.. > Īśvara said: / Right there one should view the auspicious Puṣpadanteśvara; / Puṣpadanta was indeed an attendant of Śaṃkara. 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.180.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.180.2) tena taptaṃ tapo ghoraṃ tatra liṃgaṃ pratiṣṭhitam .. 2 .. > Fierce austerity was performed by him, and that liṅga was installed there. 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.180.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.180.3) taṃ dṛṣṭvā mucyate jaṃturjanmasaṃsārabandhanāt .. prāpnuyādīpsitānkāmāniha loke paratra ca .. 3 .. > Seeing it, a living being is freed from the bond of birth and worldly existence; / he obtains the cherished desires in this world and in the next. 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.180.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.180.180) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye puṣpadanteśvara māhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmāśītyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 180 .. > Thus ends the hundred and eightieth chapter, named 'Description of the māhātmya of Puṣpadanteśvara', 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. 180 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.180.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.180) · Pramāṇa