Skandapurana 16.216
Skandapurāṇa 16.216
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16.216.1
.. īśvara uvāca.. ..
mārkaṇḍeśvarato devi uttare liṃgamuttamam..
dhanuṣāṃ pañcadaśabhirgautameśvaranāmakam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
To the north of Mārkaṇḍeśvara, O goddess, fifteen bow-lengths away,
is the excellent liṅga named Gautameśvara.
16.216.2
guruṃ hatvā purā devi gautamaḥ pāpaduḥkhitaḥ ..
tatra liṃgaṃ pratiṣṭhāpya tasmātpāpādvyamucyata .. 2 ..
Formerly, having killed his guru, O goddess, Gautama was afflicted by sin;
installing a liṅga there, he was freed from that sin.
16.216.3
yastatra kapilāṃ dadyātsnātvā nadyāṃ vidhānataḥ ..
saṃpūjya vidhivalliṃgaṃ mucyate pañcapātakaiḥ ..3..
Whoever gives a tawny cow there, having bathed properly in the river
and worshipped the liṅga according to the injunctions, is freed from the five [great] sins.
16.216.216
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye gautameśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣoḍaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..216.. ..
Thus ends the two hundred and sixteenth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Gautameśvara', 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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