Skandapurana 16.244
Skandapurāṇa 16.244
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16.244.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi vicitreśvaramuttamam ..
hiraṇyātīranilayaṃ mahāpātakanāśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Vicitreśvara, / residing on the bank of the Hiraṇyā, the destroyer of great sins.
16.244.2
vicitreṇa mahādevi lekhakena yamasya ca ..
tapaḥ kṛtvā mahāraudraṃ liṃgaṃ tatra pratiṣṭhitam.. 2 ..
After performing fierce austerity, O great goddess, / the liṅga was installed there by Vicitra, the scribe of Yama.
16.244.3
taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavo devi yamalokaṃ na paśyati .. 3 ..
Having seen it, O goddess, a human being does not see the realm of Yama.
16.244.244
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye vicitreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 244 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and forty-fourth chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Vicitreśvara,’ in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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