[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.246 # Skandapurana 16.246 Skandapurāṇa 16.246 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.246.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. ... tato gacchenmahādevi piṃgalīṃ pāpanāśinīm .. ṛṣitīrthātpaścimato nadīṃ sāgaragāminīm .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: > Then one should go, O great goddess, to Piṅgalā, the destroyer of sins, / the river flowing to the ocean to the west of Ṛṣitīrtha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.2) tasyāḥ saṃdarśanāddevi rūpavāñjāyate naraḥ .. purā maharṣayaḥ prāptāḥ someśvaradidṛkṣayā .. 2 .. > From the sight of it, O goddess, a man becomes handsome. / Formerly, great seers arrived with the desire to behold Someśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.3) prabhāsaṃ kṣetramāsādya nadītīre vyavasthitāḥ .. dākṣiṇātyā mahādevi kṛṣṇavarṇā virūpakāḥ ..3.. > Reaching the sacred field of Prabhāsa, they settled on the riverbank— / southerners, O great goddess, dark-complexioned and misshapen. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.4) tatrāśramavare snātvā paśyanto rūpamātmanaḥ .. kāmena sadṛśaṃ sarve vismayaṃ paramaṃ gatāḥ .. 4 .. > Having bathed there in that excellent hermitage, they saw their own forms / resembling Kāma, and they all fell into supreme amazement. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.5) tataste sahitāḥ sarve vismayotphullalocanāḥ .. atra snātā vayaṃ sarve yataḥ piṃgatvamāgatāḥ .. ataḥ prabhṛti nāmāsyāstataḥ piṃgā bhaviṣyati .. 5 .. > Then, all of them together, with eyes wide open in wonder, \[said\]: / 'Since having bathed here we all attained a golden-brown complexion, / henceforth its name will consequently be Piṅgā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.6) yetra snānaṃ kariṣyanti bhaktyā paramayā yutāḥ .. na teṣāmanvaye kaścidbhaviṣyati kurūpavān .. 6 .. > Those who will bathe here endowed with supreme devotion— / no one in their lineage will ever become deformed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.7) darśanātpitṛmedhasya lapsyate mānavaḥ phalam .. snānena dviguṇaṃ puṇyaṃ tarpaṇena caturguṇam .. 7 .. > From the sight of it a man shall obtain the fruit of a Pitṛmedha sacrifice; / by bathing \[he gains\] double the merit, and fourfold by offering libations; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.8) asaṃkhyātaṃ phalaṃ tasya yo'tra śrāddhaṃ kariṣyati .. evamuktvā tataḥ sarva ṛṣayo varavarṇini .. 8 .. > innumerable is the fruit of him who performs a śrāddha here.' / Having spoken thus, O lady of excellent complexion, all those seers, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.9) vyabhajaṃstannadītīraṃ sarve te munisattamāḥ .. yajñopavītamātrāṇi cakrustīrthāni sarvataḥ .. 9 .. > all those best of sages, divided among themselves that riverbank, / and made sacred fords all around, each the size of a sacred thread. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.246.246](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246.246) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye piṃgā nadīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṭcatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 246 .. > Thus ends the two hundred and forty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Piṅgā River,' in the first \[part\], 'Glory of the Prabhāsa Field,' of the seventh \[book\], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.246.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.246) · Pramāṇa