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Skandapurana 16.214

Skandapurāṇa 16.214

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Sanskrit

16.214.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
dhanuṣāmaṣṭabhistasmādīśāne kaśyapeśvarāt ..
kauśakeśvaranāmānaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam .. 1 ..

Īśvara said:
Eight bow-lengths northeast from that Kaśyapeśvara,
[stands the liṅga] named Kauśikeśvara, destroying great sins.

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16.214.2

vasiṣṭhatanayānhatvā tatra kauśikasattamaḥ ..
sthāpayāmāsa talliṃgaṃ muktapāpastato'bhavat .. 2 ..

Having slain the sons of Vasiṣṭha, Kauśika, the best of men, established that liṅga there,
and thereupon became freed from sin.

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16.214.3

taṃ dṛṣṭvā pūjayitvā tu labhate vāñchitaṃ phalam..3..

Having seen and worshipped it, one attains the desired fruit.

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16.214.214

iti śrīskāṃde mahā purāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kauśikeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmacaturdaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ.. .. 214 ..

Thus ends the two hundred and fourteenth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Kauśikeśvara', 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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