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# Skandapurana 16.226

Skandapurāṇa 16.226

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.226.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.226.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.226.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.226.226](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.226.1) — English, machine translation

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