[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.219 # Skandapurana 16.219 Skandapurāṇa 16.219 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.219.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tasmādāgneyakoṇe tu mārkaṃḍeyasamīpagam .. guhāliṃgaṃ mahādevi nīlakaṇṭheti viśrutam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: > In the southeast corner from that, near Mārkaṇḍeya, > is a secret liṅga, O great goddess, renowned as Nīlakaṇṭha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.2) viṣṇunā pūjitaṃ pūrvaṃ sarva pātakanāśanam .. 2 .. > \[It was\] formerly worshipped by Viṣṇu, destroying all sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.3) tatra yaḥ pūjayedbhaktyā talliṃgaṃ pāpamocanam.. sa putrapaśumāndhīmānmodate pṛthivītale .. 3 .. > Whoever worships with devotion there that liṅga which releases from sin, / having sons, cattle, and wisdom, rejoices on the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.4) evaṃ tatra mahādevi mārkaṇḍeyeśa sannidhau .. ṛṣīṇāmāśramā ye'tra dṛśyante'dyāpi bhāmini .. 4 .. > Thus, O great goddess, in the vicinity of Mārkaṇḍeyeśa, / the hermitages of the seers are seen here even today, O spirited woman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.5) aṣṭāśītisahasrāṇi ṛṣīṇāmūrdhvaretasām .. tatra sthitāni deveśi mārkaṇḍeyāśramāṃtike .. 5 .. > Eighty-eight thousand seers of chaste conduct / dwell there near Mārkaṇḍeya's hermitage, O queen of gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.6) ṛṣīṇāṃ ca guhāstatra sarvā liṃgasamanvitāḥ .. dṛśyante puṇyatapasāṃ tadāśramanivāsinām .. 6 .. > And the caves of the seers endowed with holy austerities / dwelling in that hermitage are seen there, all furnished with liṅgas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.7) tatra yaḥ sthāpayelliṃgaṃ mārkaṃḍeśasamīpagam.. kulānāṃ śatamuddhṛtya modate divi devavat .. 7 .. > Whoever installs a liṅga there near Mārkaṇḍeśa, / having rescued a hundred ancestral lines, rejoices in heaven like a god. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.8) sarve śivamayā lokāḥ śive sarvaṃ pratiṣṭhitam .. tasmācchivaṃ yajedvidvānya icchecchriyamātmanaḥ .. 8 .. > All the worlds consist of Śiva; everything is established in Śiva. / Therefore, the wise person who desires his own prosperity should sacrifice to Śiva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.9) śivabhakto na yo rājā bhakto'nyeṣu sureṣu ca .. svapatiṃ yuvatī tyaktvā ramate'nyeṣu vai yathā .. 9 .. > A king who is not a devotee of Śiva, but a devotee of other gods, / is just like a young woman who, abandoning her own husband, takes pleasure with others. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.10) brahmādayaḥ surāḥ sarve rājānaśca maharddhikāḥ .. mānavā munayaścaiva sarve liṃgaṃ yajaṃti ca .. 7.1.219.10 .. > All the gods headed by Brahmā, the kings of great power, / men, and sages—all worship the liṅga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.11) svanāmakṛtacihnāni liṃgānīṃdrādibhiḥ kramāt .. sthāpitāni yathā sthāne mānavairapi bhūriśaḥ .. 11 .. > Liṅgas marked with their own names were installed in their proper places / in turn by Indra and others, and by men in great numbers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.12) sthāpanādbrahmahatyāṃ ca bhrūṇahatyāṃ tathaiva ca .. mahāpāpāni cānyāni nistīrṇāḥ śivatejasā .. 12 .. > By the installation \[of a liṅga\], \[such persons\] were carried across the killing of a brahmin, the killing of an embryo, / and other great sins by the fiery power of Śiva. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.13) vṛtraṃ hatvā purā śakro māhendraṃ sthāpya śaṃkaram .. liṃgaṃ ca muktapāpaughastato'sau tridivaṃ gataḥ .. 13 .. > In ancient times, Śakra, having slain Vṛtra, installed Śaṃkara as Māhendra, / and, freed from the mass of sins by the liṅga, went to heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.14) sthāpayitvā śivaṃ sūryo gaṃgāsāgarasaṃgame .. nirāmayo'bhūtsomaśca prabhāse paścimodadheḥ .. 14 .. > The Sun, having installed Śiva at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and the ocean, / became free from disease, as did Soma in Prabhāsa by the western sea. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.15) kāśyāṃ caiva tathādityaḥ sahye garuḍakāśyapau .. pratiṣṭhāṃ paramāṃ prāptau pratiṣṭhāpya jagatpatim .. 15 .. > And so too the Sun in Kāśī, and Garuḍa and Kaśyapa on the Sahya \[mountain\], / attained the highest status after installing the Lord of the universe. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.16) khyātadoṣā hyahilyā'pi bhartṛśaptā'bhavattadā .. sthāpyeśānaṃ punaḥ strītvaṃ lebhe putrāṃstathottamān .. 16 .. > Even Ahilyā, who had incurred famous reproach, was then cursed by her husband; / having installed Īśāna, she regained her womanhood and \[obtained\] excellent sons. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.17) paśyaṃtyadyāpi yāḥ snātvā tatrāhilyeśvaraṃ striyaḥ .. puruṣāścāpi taddoṣairmucyante nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 17 .. > The women who bathe and behold Ahilyeśvara there even today, / and men as well, are freed from those sins; there is no doubt in this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.18) sthāpayitveśvaraṃ śvetaśaile balivirocanau .. ubhāvapi hi saṃjātāvamarau balināṃ varau .. .. 18 .. > Having installed Īśvara on Śvetaśaila, Bali and Virocana / both became immortal, best among the strong. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.19) rāmeṇa rāvaṇaṃ hatvā sasainyaṃ tridaśeśvaram .. sthāpito vidhivadbhaktyā tīre nadanadīpateḥ .. 19 .. > \[A liṅga\] was installed according to the rules with devotion by Rāma on the shore of the ocean, the lord of rivers, / after slaying Rāvaṇa along with his army, that king of the thirty \[demons\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.20) svāyaṃbhuvarṣidaivādiliṃgahīnā na bhūḥ kvacita .. vyā pārānsakalāṃstyaktvā pūjayadhvaṃ śivaṃ sadā .. nikaṭā iva dṛśyaṃte kṛtāṃtanagaropagāḥ .. 7.1.219.20 .. > Nowhere is the earth devoid of liṅgas—self-manifest, installed by seers, gods, and others. / Abandon all \[mundane\] pursuits and always worship Śiva; / \[those who do not\] seem near to arriving in the city of the God of Death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.21) devi kiṃ bahunoktena varṇitena punaḥ punaḥ .. prabhāsakṣetrasāraṃ tu mārkaṇḍeyāśramaṃ prati .. 21 .. > O goddess, what is the use of speaking much and praising again and again? / The hermitage of Mārkaṇḍeya is indeed the essence of the sacred field of Prabhāsa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.219.219](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219.219) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsa kṣetramāhātmye mārkaṇḍeyeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonaviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 219 .. > Thus ends the two hundred and nineteenth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Mārkaṇḍeyeśvara', in the first \[part\], 'Māhātmya of Prabhāsakṣetra', in the seventh \[book\], 'Prabhāsakhaṇḍa', in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.219.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.219) · Pramāṇa