Skandapurana 16.247
Skandapurāṇa 16.247
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16.247.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ paśyetsūryaṃ pāpapraṇāśanam ..
tathā ca piṃgalāṃ devīṃ pārvatīrūpadhāriṇīm .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Right there one should look upon the sun that destroys sin, / and also the goddess Piṅgalā bearing the form of Pārvatī.
16.247.2
tṛtīyāyāṃ viśeṣeṇa hyupavāsaṃ karoti yaḥ ..
sarvānkāmānavāpnoti dhanavānputravānbhavet .. 2 ..
He who observes a fast especially on the third [lunar day] / attains all desires and becomes wealthy and blessed with sons.
16.247.3
tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ paśyecchukreśvaramiti śrutam ..
taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavo devi muktaḥ syātsarvapātakaiḥ .. 3 ..
Right there one should behold [the liṅga] known by tradition as Śukreśvara; / having seen it, O goddess, a man is freed from all sins.
16.247.247
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye piṃgalādityapiṃgādevīśukreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptacatvāriṃśa duttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 247 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and forty-seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Piṅgalāditya, Goddess Piṅgā, and Śukreśvara,' 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.
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