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# Skandapurana 16.247

Skandapurāṇa 16.247

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.247.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.247.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.247.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.247.247](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.247.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmyam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.prabhasakshetramahatmyam.258.2) — Sanskrit

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