Skandapurana 16.212
Skandapurāṇa 16.212
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16.212.1
īśvara uvāca .. ..
pulaheśvarāttato devi nairṛte dhanuṣāṣṭake ..
kratvīśvaretināmānaṃ mahākratuphalapradam ..1..
Īśvara said:
Then, O goddess, eight bow-lengths southwest of Pulaheśvara,
[stands the liṅga] named Kratvīśvara, which bestows the fruit of a great Vedic sacrifice.
16.212.2
taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavo devi pauṃḍarīkaphalaṃ labhet ..
saptajanmani dāridryaṃ na duḥkhaṃ tatra jāyate ..2..
Having seen it, O goddess, a human obtains the fruit of the Pauṇḍarīka sacrifice;
for seven births, poverty and distress do not arise for him.
16.212.212
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kratvīśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvādaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ.. 212..
Thus ends the two hundred and twelfth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Kratvīśvara', in the first [part], the Māhātmya of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the seventh [book], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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