Skandapurana 16.217
Skandapurāṇa 16.217
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16.217.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
gautameśvarato devi paścime nātidūrataḥ ..
dhanuḥṣoḍaśabhirdevi devarājeśvaraḥ sthitaḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Not far to the west of Gautameśvara, O goddess,
sixteen bow-lengths away, stands Devarājeśvara.
16.217.2
liṃgaṃ sa sthāpayāmāsa tataḥ pāpairvyamucyata ..
yastaṃ samāhitamanāḥ pūjayiṣyati mānavaḥ ..
sa ca mānavasaṃbhūtātpātakātsaṃpramokṣyati .. 2 ..
He established that liṅga and was thereupon freed from sins.
Whatever human worships it with a collected mind
shall be completely liberated from sins born of humans.
16.217.217
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye devarājeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptadaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..217..
Thus ends the two hundred and seventeenth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Devarājeśvara', 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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