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Skandapurana 16.215

Skandapurāṇa 16.215

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16.215.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi kumāreśvaramuttamam ..
mārkaṇḍeśvarato devi dakṣiṇe nātidūrataḥ ..
dhanurviṃśatibhistatra sthitaṃ svāmipratiṣṭhitam .. 1 ..

Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Kumāreśvara,
situated not far to the south of Mārkaṇḍeśvara, O goddess,
twenty bow-lengths away, consecrated by the Lord [Kumāra].

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16.215.2

tataḥ kṛtvā tapo ghoraṃ kārttikeyena bhābhini ..
paradārāpahārotthapāpānāṃ nāśahetave .. 2 ..

Then, having performed severe austerity, O radiant lady, Kārttikeya,
in order to destroy the sins arising from taking another's wife,

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16.215.3

liṃgaṃ sthāpitavāṃstatra sa muktaḥ kilviṣāttataḥ ..
vairāgyādyauvanaṃ tyaktvā kaumāraṃ punarādade .. 3 ..

installed the liṅga there and was freed from defilement.
Having abandoned his youth out of detachment, he assumed bachelorhood once more.

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16.215.4

pitṝnhatvā sumālī ca tamārādhitavānpurā ..
so'pi mukto'bhavaddevi pāpātpitṛvadhodbhavāt .. 4 ..

Having slain his fathers, Sumālī also worshipped it formerly;
he too became freed, O goddess, from the sin arising from the murder of his fathers.

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16.215.5

kumāreśvaranāmaitatpūjitaṃ vai surāsuraiḥ ..
tasyāgrataḥ kumārasya kūpastiṣṭhati bhāmini .. 5 ..

This is named Kumāreśvara, worshipped by gods and asuras.
In front of that [liṅga of] Kumāra stands a well, O radiant lady.

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16.215.6

tatra snātvā pūjayedyaḥ śūlinaṃ svāmipūjitam ..
sa muktaḥ pātakaiḥ sarvairgacchetsvāmipuraṃ mahat .. 6 ..

Having bathed there, whoever worships the Trident-bearer revered by the Lord [Kumāra]
is freed from all sins and goes to the great realm of the Lord.

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16.215.7

śātakauṃbhamayaṃ yastu tāmracūḍaṃ dvijātaye ..
dadyātsvāminamuddiśya sa tu yātrāphalaṃ labhet .. 7 ..

And whoever gives a golden rooster to a twice-born person
in honor of the Lord obtains the fruit of the pilgrimage.

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16.215.215

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsa kṣetramāhātmye kumāreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcadaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 215 .. ..

Thus ends the two hundred and fifteenth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Kumāreśvara', 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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