Skandapurana 16.227
Skandapurāṇa 16.227
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16.227.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi balabhadrapratiṣṭhitam ..
liṃgaṃ mahāpāpaharaṃ gātrotsargāttaduttare .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga consecrated by Balabhadra, / which removes great sins, to the north of Gātrotsarga.
16.227.2
mahāliṃgaṃ mahādevi mahāsiddhi phalapradam ..
balabhadreṇa vidhinā sthāpitaṃ pāpaśuddhaye .. 2 ..
It is a great liṅga, O great goddess, which bestows the fruit of great perfections, / installed by Balabhadra according to ritual injunction for purification from sin.
16.227.3
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā gandhapuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt ..
tṛtīyārevatīyoge sa yogeśapadaṃ labhet .. 3 ..
Whoever worships it with devotion, successively with perfumes, flowers, and the like, / during the conjunction of the third lunar day and Revatī, attains the rank of the lord of yoga.
16.227.227
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye balabhadreśvaramāhātmya varṇanaṃnāma saptaviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 227 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-seventh chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Balabhadreśvara', 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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