Skandapurana 16.241
Skandapurāṇa 16.241
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16.241.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ paśyedbalabhadrakalevaram ..
śeṣarūpeṇa yatrāsau prātyajatsvakalevaram.. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
There itself one should behold the body of Balabhadra, / where, in the form of Śeṣa, he cast off his own body.
16.241.2
gatastraisaṃgame tīrthe tatra pātālavartmanā ..
asminmitravane devi gavyūtidvayavistṛte .. 2 ..
O goddess, he went to the Traisaṃgama sacred ford there by the path to Pātāla / in this Mitravana extending for two gavyūtis.
16.241.3
kalevaraṃ sthitaṃ devi liṃgākāraṃ mahāprabham ..
revatyā sahitaṃ tatra śeṣanāmeti viśrutam ..3..
There, O goddess, his body stands, shaped like a liṅga, endowed with great splendor, / accompanied by Revatī, well-known under the name of Śeṣa.
16.241.4
yatra siddhaḥ purā devi jarānāmā tu kaulikaḥ ..
viṣṇuhaṃtā bhallatīrthe so'sminsthāne layaṃ gataḥ .. 4 ..
Where of old, O goddess, the hunter named Jarā achieved perfection— / the slayer of Viṣṇu at Bhallatīrtha—he dissolved into this place.
16.241.5
tatprabhṛtyeva sakale śeṣa ityabhiviśrutaḥ ..
caitre śuklatrayodaśyāṃ yastaṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..
sa putrapautrapaśumānvarṣaṃ kṣemeṇa gacchati ..5..
Ever since then, he has been celebrated as Śeṣa across the whole [world]. / The person who worships him on the thirteenth lunar day of the bright fortnight of Caitra / spends the year in peace, endowed with sons, grandsons, and cattle.
16.241.6
masūrikādirogebhyaḥ śiśūnāṃ na bhayaṃ bhavet ..
visphoṭakādirogebhyo na bhayaṃ jāyate kvacit ..6..
For children there will be no danger from diseases such as smallpox; / no danger ever arises from eruptive diseases such as boils.
16.241.7
asminkṣetre mahāsiddhe siddhayajñastu yaḥ smṛtaḥ ..
varṇānāṃ sāṃtarālānāṃ sarveṣāṃ cātivallabhaḥ ..7..
The sacrifice that is recalled as the Siddhayajña in this great, perfect sacred field / is exceedingly dear to all the castes and the intermediate classes.
16.241.8
paśupuṣpopahāraiśca balidānaiḥ pṛthagvidhaiḥ ..
saṃtuṣṭiṃ śīghramāyāti śeṣo'śeṣāghanāśanaḥ .. .. 8 ..
Through animal offerings, floral gifts, and various kinds of oblations, / Śeṣa, the destroyer of all sins, quickly attains satisfaction.
16.241.241
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye śeṣamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikacatvāriṃśa duttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 241 .. ..
Thus ends the two hundred and forty-first chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Śeṣa,' 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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