Skandapurana 16.226
Skandapurāṇa 16.226
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16.226.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva pūrvabhāge tu nairṛte pāpamocanāt ..
megheśvareti vikhyātaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the east of that very [place], however, and southwest of Pāpamocana, / is the renowned [liṅga] named Megheśvara, which destroys all sins.
16.226.2
anāvṛṣṭibhaye jāte śāṃtiṃ tatraiva kārayet ..
vāruṇīṃ vipramukhyaistu bhāvayedudakairmahīm .. 2 ..
When fear of drought arises, one should have a pacification rite performed right there; / he should cause the earth to be drenched with waters dedicated to Varuṇa by the foremost among brahmins.
16.226.3
meghaiḥ pratiṣṭhitaṃ liṃgaṃ yatra nityaṃ prapūjyate ..
anāvṛṣṭibhayaṃ kiṃcinna ca tatra prajāyate .. 3 ..
Where the liṅga consecrated by the clouds is continually worshiped, / no fear of drought ever arises there.
16.226.226
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye megheśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaḍviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 226 .. ..
Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-sixth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Megheśvara', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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