[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) › 16.225 # Skandapurana 16.225 Skandapurāṇa 16.225 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.225.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tatogacchenmahādevi devaṃ cā'narakeśvaram.. tasmāduttaradigbhāge sarvapātakanāśanam .. tanmāhātmyaṃ pravakṣyāmi śṛṇu hyekamanāḥ priye .. 1.. > Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the god Anarakeśvara, / in the northern direction from that, destroying all sins. / I shall declare its glory; hear with a single-minded focus, O dear one! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.2) mathurānāma vikhyātā nagarī dharaṇītale.. tatra vipro'bhavatpūrvaṃ devaśarmeti viśrutaḥ .. agastyagotro vidvānvai sa tu dāridryapīḍitaḥ .. 2 .. > There was a city named Mathurā renowned upon the earth's surface. / There was a brahmin there formerly known as Devaśarman, / belonging to the gotra of Agastya, learned indeed, but afflicted by poverty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.3) athāparo'bhavattatra tādṛgrūpavayo'nvitaḥ .. tannāma gotro deveśi brāhmaṇo vedapāragaḥ .. 3 .. > Then another \[brahmin\] lived there, endowed with a similar form and age, / of the same name and gotra, O goddess of gods, a brahmin who had mastered the Vedas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.4) atha prāha yamo dūtaṃ raudramūrdhaśiroruham .. gaccha bho mathurāṃ śīghraṃ devaśarmāṇamānaya .. 4 .. > Then Yama said to his messenger, whose hair stood up terribly on his head: / "Go at once to Mathurā, friend, and bring Devaśarman!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.5) athāgatya tato dūto gṛhītvā tatra vai gataḥ .. taṃ dṛṣṭvātha yamo natvā prāha dūtaṃ krudhānvitaḥ .. 5 .. > Having arrived there, the messenger seized him and went back. / Seeing him, Yama bowed \[to the brahmin\], and then, filled with anger, said to the messenger: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.6) nāyamānetumādiṣṭo devaśarmāṃ mayā tava .. anyosti devaśarmā yasta mānaya gatāyuṣam .. enaṃ vipraṃ ca dīrghāyuṃ naya tatrāvilaṃbitam .. 6 .. > "This Devaśarman was not commanded by me for you to bring! / There is another Devaśarman whose lifespan is finished—bring him! / And lead this long-lived brahmin back there without delay!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.7) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. athābravīdbrāhmaṇo vai nāhaṃ yāsye gṛhaṃ vibho .. dāridryeṇātinirviṇṇo yāvajjīvaṃ sureśvara .. ihaiva kṣapayiṣyāmi śeṣamāyustavāṃtike .. 7 .. > Īśvara said: / Then the brahmin said: "Lord, I will not go home. / Despondent on account of extreme poverty as long as I live, O lord of gods, / I shall spend the remainder of my life right here in your presence." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.8) .. yama uvāca .. .. akāle nātra cāyāti kaścidbrāhmaṇasattama .. muhūrtamapi no jīvetpūrṇakālena vai bhuvi .. 8 .. > Yama said: / "No one comes here before their time, O best of brahmins! / Nor can one whose time is finished live on earth even for an instant. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.9) ata eva hi me nāma dharmarājeti viśrutam .. 9 .. > For this very reason my name is renowned as Dharmarāja. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.10) na me suhṛnna me dveṣyaḥ kaścidasti dharātale .. viddhaḥ śaraśatenāpi nā'kāle mriyate yataḥ .. 7.1.225.10 .. > I have no friend and no enemy on the surface of the earth. / For even pierced by a hundred arrows, one does not die before one's time; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.11) kuśāgreṇāpi viddhaḥ sankāle pūrṇe na jīvati .. tasmādgaccha dvijaśreṣṭha yāvadgātraṃ na dahyate .. 11 .. > yet even pierced by the tip of a kuśa blade, one does not live when one's time is full. / Therefore go, O best of the twice-born, before your body is cremated!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.12) athābravīdbrāhmaṇo'sau yadi preṣayase prabho .. praśnamekaṃ mayā pṛṣṭo yathāvadvaktumarhasi .. 12 .. > Then that brahmin said: "If you send me away, O lord, / you ought to answer properly one question asked by me. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.13) na vṛthā jāyate deva sādhūnāṃ darśanaṃ kvacit .. yuṣmākaṃ ca viśeṣeṇa tasmādetadbravīmyaham .. 13 .. > The darśana of good people is never in vain, O god, / and especially yours; therefore I say this: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.14) ete ye narakā raudrā dṛśyante ca sudāruṇāḥ .. karmaṇā kena kaṃ gacchenmānavo narakaṃ yama .. 14 .. > These terrible and exceedingly dreadful hells that are seen— / by what deed would a human go to which hell, O Yama? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.15) kati saṃkhyāḥ syurete ca narakāḥ kiṃpramāṇataḥ .. etatsarvaṃ suraśreṣṭha yathāvadvaktumarhasi .. 15 .. > How many in number are these hells, and of what measure? / You ought to tell all this truly, O best of gods!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.16) .. yama uvāca .. .. śṛṇu deva pravakṣyāmi yāvanto narakāḥ sthitāḥ .. karmaṇā yena gaccheta mānavo dvijasattama .. ekaviṃśatsamākhyātā narakā mama mandire .. 16 .. > Yama said: / "Listen, O noble one, I shall tell how many hells exist, / and by what deed a human would go \[there\], O best of brahmins. / Twenty-one hells are proclaimed in my abode. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.17) yānetānprekṣase vipra yaṃtra madhye vyavasthitān .. pīḍyamānānkiṃkarairme kṛtaghnānpā pasaṃyutān .. 17 .. > Those ungrateful, sin-laden ones whom you see, O brahmin, placed inside mechanical presses / and being tormented by my servants— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.18) lohāsyavāyasā yeṣāṃ netroddhāraṃ prakurvate .. etairnirīkṣitānyeva kalatrāṇi durātmabhiḥ .. 18 .. > whose eyes iron-beaked crows gouge out— / those evil-minded ones looked upon > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.19) pareṣāṃ dvijaśārdūla sarāgaiḥ pāpi bhiḥ sadā .. kumbhīpākagatānetānatha paśyasi pāpinaḥ .. 19 .. > the wives of others with lust, O tiger among the twice-born, sinners always. / And now you see these sinners who have entered Kumbhīpāka: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.20) kūṭasākṣyaratā hyete kaṭuvāṅniratāstathā .. ete lohamayāstambhānsaṃtaptānpāvakapra bhān .. 7.1.225.20 .. > they were engaged in false testimony and devoted to harsh speech. / Those who embrace these iron pillars glowing like fire, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.21) āliṃgaṃti durātmānaḥ paradāraratāstu ye .. ete vaitaraṇīmadhye pūyaśoṇitasaṃkule .. 21 .. > those evil-minded ones were devoted to the wives of others. / Those who stand in the midst of the Vaitaraṇī, packed with pus and blood, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.22) ye tiṣṭhaṃti dvijaśreṣṭha sarve viśvāsaghātakāḥ .. asipatravane ghore bhidyante ye tu khaṇḍaśaḥ .. te naṣṭāḥ svāminaṃ tyaktvā saṃgrāme samupasthite .. 22 .. > all of them are betrayers of trust, O best of the twice-born. / Those who are cut to pieces in the terrifying Asipatravana / ran away, abandoning their master when battle was joined. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.23) aṃgārarāśīnvai dīptānye gāhante narādhamāḥ .. svāmidroharatā hyete tathā hetupravādakāḥ .. 23 .. > The vile men who plunge into heaps of blazing charcoal / were devoted to treachery against their masters and were sophists. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.24) lohaśaṃkubhirākīrṇamākramanti narādhamāḥ .. krandamānā dvijaśreṣṭha upānaddānavarjitāḥ .. 24 .. > Vile men, wailing, tread upon \[ground\] / strewn with iron spikes, O best of the twice-born, \[because\] they never gave the gift of shoes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.25) adhomukhā nibaddhā ye vṛkṣāgre pāvakopari .. brahmahatyānvitāḥ sarva ete caiva narādhamāḥ .. 25 .. > Those who are bound head-downwards at the top of a tree above fire / are all vile men guilty of killing a brahmin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.26) maśakairmatkuṇaiḥ kākairye bhakṣyaṃte vihaṃgamaiḥ .. vratabhaṃgaratā hyete vratinā caiva hiṃsakāḥ .. 26 .. > Those who are eaten by mosquitoes, bedbugs, crows, and birds / were devoted to breaking vows and harmed those observing vows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.27) kuṭhārakaṇṭhitā hyete bhūyaḥ saṃti tathāvidhāḥ .. gohantāro durātmāno devabrāhmaṇāniṃdakā .. 27 .. > Those whose throats are struck with axes are also of such a kind: / evil-minded slayers of cows and revilers of gods and brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.28) ye bhakṣyaṃte śṛgālaiśca vṛkairlohamayairmukhaiḥ .. parasvānāṃ ca hartāraḥ parastrīṇāṃ ca hartṛkāḥ .. ātmamāṃsāni ye pāpā bhakṣayaṃti bubhukṣitāḥ .. .. 28 .. > Those who are devoured by jackals and wolves with iron jaws / are stealers of others' wealth and stealers of others' wives. / Those sinners who, starving, eat their own flesh, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.29) na dattamannametaistu kadācidvai dvijottama .. rudhiraṃ ye pibaṃtyete vasāpūyapariplutam .. brāhmaṇānāṃ vināśāya gavāmete sadā sthitāḥ .. .. 29 .. > never gave food, O best of brahmins. / Those who drink blood overflowing with fat and pus / always stood for the destruction of brahmins and cows. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.30) kūṭaśālmalibaddhāśca tīkṣṇakaṇṭakapīḍitāḥ .. chidrānveṣaṇasaṃyuktāḥ pareṣāṃ nityasaṃsthitāḥ .. 7.1.225.30 .. > Bound to the spiny Śālmali tree and pierced by sharp thorns, / they were constantly engaged in finding fault in others. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.31) krakacena tu chidyante ya ime dvijasattama .. abhakṣyaniratā hyete svadharmasya vidūṣakāḥ .. 31 .. > These who are cut with a saw, O best of brahmins, / were devoted to inedible food and defiled their own duty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.32) kanyāvikrayakarttāraḥ kanyānāṃ jīvabhaṃjakāḥ .. purīṣamadhyagā hyete pacyaṃte mama kiṃkaraiḥ .. 32 .. > Those who sell maidens and those who ruin the lives of maidens / dwell in the midst of feces and are boiled by my servants. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.33) saṃdeśairdāruṇairjihvā yeṣāmutpāṭyate muhuḥ .. vāglopaniratā hyete mṛṣāvādaparāyaṇāḥ .. 33 .. > Those whose tongues are repeatedly torn out with cruel pincers / were devoted to breach of words and dedicated to lying speech. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.34) ye śītena prabādhyaṃte vepa mānā muhurmuhuḥ .. devasvānāṃ ca hartāro brāhmaṇānāṃ viśeṣataḥ .. 34 .. > Those who are tormented by cold, trembling again and again, / are stealers of the property of gods, and especially of brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.35) teṣāṃ śirasi nikṣipto bhūribhāro dvijottama .. ato'mī brāhmaṇaśreṣṭha pūtkā rayanti bhairavam .. 35 .. > A heavy burden is placed on their heads, O best of brahmins; / therefore, O foremost of brahmins, they utter a terrible cry of distress." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.36) .. yama uvāca .. .. evametatsamākhyātaṃ tava sarvaṃ dvijottama .. narakāṇāṃ svarūpaṃ tu karmaṇāṃ vai yathākramam .. 36 .. > Yama said: / "Thus all of this has been declared to you, O best of brahmins: / the nature of the hells and \[the corresponding\] deeds in proper order. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.37) gaccha śīghraṃ mahābhāga yāvatkāyo na dahyate .. 37 .. > Go quickly, O fortunate one, before your body is cremated!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.38) .. brāhmaṇa uvāca .. .. kathaya tvaṃ suraśreṣṭha mama sarvaṃ samāhitaḥ .. na gacchetkarmaṇā yena narakaṃ mānavaḥ kvacit .. 38 .. > The brahmin said: / "Tell me, attentive, O best of gods, / by what deed a human would never go to hell anywhere. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.39) satāṃ saptapadaṃ maitramityāhurbuddhikovidāḥ .. mitratāṃ ca puraskṛtya samāsādvaktumarhasi .. 39 .. > "Friendship of the virtuous is formed in seven steps," so say those skilled in intellect. / Honoring our friendship, you ought to speak in brief." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.40) .. yama uvāca .. .. prabhāsaṃ kṣetramāsādyā narakeśvaramuttamam .. yaḥ paśyati naro bhaktyā narakaṃ sa na paśyati .. 7.1.225.40 .. > Yama said: / "Reaching the sacred field of Prabhāsa, whoever beholds with devotion / the supreme Narakeśvara, that person does not see hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.41) sthāpitaṃ yanmayā liṃgaṃ śivabhaktyā yutena ca .. etadguhyaṃ mayā proktaṃ tava prītyai dvijottama .. 41 .. > That liṅga which was established by me, endowed with devotion to Śiva— / this secret has been spoken by me for your pleasure, O best of brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.42) gopanīyaṃ prayatnena mama vākyādasaṃśayam .. evamuktastadā vipraḥ svayamevāvaniṃ yayau .. 42 .. > It should be concealed with care by my word, without doubt." / Thus addressed, the brahmin then went to the earth on his own. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.43) labdhvā kalevaraṃ so'tha vismayaṃ paramaṃ gataḥ .. tatsmṛtvā vacanaṃ sarvaṃ dharmarājasya dhīmataḥ .. 43 .. > Regaining his physical body, he experienced supreme astonishment. / Remembering all that speech of the wise Dharmarāja, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.44) gatvā tatra sa nityaṃ vai pūjayāmāsa taṃ prabhum .. yāvajjīvaṃ varārohe tataḥ siddhiṃ parāṃ gataḥ .. 44 .. > having gone there, he constantly worshipped that lord / for the rest of his life, O fair-hipped lady, and then attained supreme perfection. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.45) tasmātsarvaprayatnena bhaktyā tamavalokayan .. api pātakayukto'pi na yāti narake naraḥ .. 45 .. > Therefore, beholding it with devotion by every effort, / even a man burdened with sins does not go to hell. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.46) āśvayukkṛṣṇapakṣe tu caturdaśyāṃ vidhānataḥ .. yastatra kurute śrāddhaṃ so'śvamedhaphalaṃ labhet .. 46 .. > Whoever performs an ancestral offering there according to the rules on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Āśvayuja, / he obtains the fruit of an horse sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.47) kṛṣṇājinaṃ tatra deyaṃ brāhmaṇe vedapārage .. yāvattilānāṃ saṃkhyānaṃ tāvatsvarge mahīyate .. 47 .. > The skin of a black antelope should be given there to a brahmin who has mastered the Vedas; / for as many sesamum seeds as there are, for that long he is honored in heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.225.225](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.225.225) iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetra māhātmye 'narakeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcaviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 225 .. .. cha .. > Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-fifth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Anarakeśvara', in the first \[part\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh \[section\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.225.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: 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