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Skandapurana 16.201

Skandapurāṇa 16.201

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16.201.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasminsthāne mahādevi smaśānaṃ kālabhairavam ..
brahmakuṇḍaṃ varārohe yāvaddevaḥ kṛtasmaraḥ..1..

Īśvara said: / In that place, O great goddess, is the cremation ground Kālabhairava, / [extending] from Brahmakuṇḍa, O fair-hipped one, as far as the deity Kṛtasmara.

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16.201.2

tatra ye prāṇino dagdhā mṛtāḥ kālaviparyayāt ..
te sarve muktimāyāṃti mahāpātakino'pi vā ..2..

Whatever living beings are burned there, or die through the vicissitude of time, / all of them attain liberation, even if they are guilty of great sins.

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16.201.3

kṛtasmarānmahādevi yāvanmaṃkīśvaraḥ sthitaḥ ..
mahāsmaśānaṃ taddevi apunarbhavadāyakam ..3..

From Kṛtasmara, O great goddess, as far as Maṅkīśvara stands, / that, O goddess, is the great cremation ground that bestows freedom from rebirth.

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16.201.4

tasminsthāne vahedyatra viṣuvaṃ prāṇināṃ priye ..
tatroṣaraṃ smṛtaṃ kṣetraṃ tanme priyataraṃ sadā ..4..

In that place where the breath of living beings flows equally, O beloved, / there the kṣetra is known as saline soil; it is ever dearer to me.

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16.201.5

kalpāṃte'pi na muṃcāmi avimuktātpriyaṃ mama.. 5 ..

Even at the end of an eon I do not abandon it; it is dearer to me [even] than Avimukta.

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16.201.201

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kālabhairavasmaśānamāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmaikottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 201 ..

Thus ends the two hundred and first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Kālabhairava Cremation Ground', in the First [Part], the Glory of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, of the Seventh Section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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16.201.201_1

vahedyatra viṣuvaṃ prāṇināṃ priye -- etena - tanmahāsmaśānaparīkṣā procyate - yasminsthāne sthitānāṃ prāṇināṃ viṣuvaṃ vahet - nāsāpuṭadvayāt samānatayā śvāsocchvāsanirgamanaṃ bhavati arthāt suṣumnāsamudbhavo bhavati - tanmahāsmaśānamapunarbhavadāyakam ityartho bodhyaḥ.- skandapurāṇe ṭīkā.

'Where the breath of living beings flows equally, O beloved'—by this the examination of that great cremation ground is stated: in which place the viṣuva flows for living beings residing there—namely, the outflow of exhalation and inhalation happens equally from both nostrils, meaning the arising of suṣumnā occurs—that great cremation ground bestows freedom from rebirth; this is the meaning to be understood. —Commentary on the Skandapurāṇa.

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