Skandapurana 16.248
Skandapurāṇa 16.248
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16.248.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi pūrvoktaṃ brahmapūjitam ..
sarasvatyāstaṭe saṃsthaṃ parṇādityasya paścime .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the aforementioned [liṅga] worshipped by Brahmā, / situated on the bank of the Sarasvatī to the west of Parṇāditya.
16.248.2
tasyotpattiṃ pravakṣyāmi śṛṇuṣvaikamanāḥ priye ..
sṛjato brahmaṇaḥ pūrvaṃ bhūtagrāmaṃ caturvidham .. 2 ..
I shall relate its origin; listen with single-minded attention, O dear one. / Formerly, as Brahmā was creating the fourfold collection of beings,
16.248.3
utpannādbhutarūpāḍhyā nārī kamalalocanā ..
kaṃbugrīvā sukeśāṃtā biṃboṣṭhī tanumadhyamā .. 3 ..
there arose a woman endowed with wondrous beauty, lotus-eyed, / with a conch-like neck, beautiful hair, bimba-fruit lips, slender-waisted,
16.248.4
gaṃbhīranābhiḥ suśroṇī pīnaśroṇipayodharā ..
pūrṇacandramukhī sā tu gūḍhagulphā sitānanā .. 4 ..
deep-navelled, with lovely hips, full buttocks and breasts, / moon-faced, with hidden ankles and a radiant face.
16.248.5
na devī na ca gandharvī nāsurī na ca pannagī ..
yādṛgrūpā varārohā tādṛśī sā vyajāyata .. 5 ..
Neither a goddess, nor a gandharvī, nor an asurī, nor a pannagī / had such a form as that fair-hipped woman was born with.
16.248.6
tāṃ dṛṣṭvā rūpasaṃpannāṃ brahmā kāmavaśo'bhavat ..
atha tāṃ prārthayāmāsa ratyarthaṃ varavarṇini .. 6 ..
Seeing her endowed with beauty, Brahmā came under the sway of desire; / then he begged her for sexual pleasure, O lady of excellent complexion.
16.248.7
atha prārthayatastasya nyapatatpaṃcamaṃ śiraḥ ..
khararūpaṃ mahādevi tena pāpena tatkṣaṇāt.. 7 ..
As he thus solicited her, his fifth head, / having the form of a donkey, O great goddess, fell off in an instant due to that sin.
16.248.8
tato jñātvā mahatpāpaṃ duhituḥ kāmasaṃbhavam ..
ghṛṇayā parayā yuktaḥ prabhāsaṃ kṣetramāgataḥ .. 8 ..
Then, realising the great sin arising from his lust for his daughter, / filled with supreme self-reproach, he came to the sacred field of Prabhāsa.
16.248.9
na kāyasya yataḥ śuddhirvinā tīrthāvagāhanāt ..
sa snātaḥ salile puṇye sarasvatyā varānane .. 9 ..
Because there is no purification of the body without bathing in a sacred ford, / he bathed in the holy waters of the Sarasvatī, O lovely-faced one,
16.248.10
liṃgaṃ saṃsthāpayāmāsa devadevasya śūlinaḥ ..
tato vikalmaṣo bhūtvā jagāma svagṛhaṃ punaḥ .. 7.1.248.10 ..
and installed a liṅga of the god of gods who wields the trident. / Then, freed from blemish, he returned to his own abode.
16.248.11
snātvā sārasvate toye yastalliṃgaṃ prapaśyati ..
sarvapāpavinirmukto brahmaloke mahīyate .. 11 ..
Having bathed in the water of Sarasvatī, he who beholds that liṅga / is completely freed from all sins and glorified in the world of Brahmā.
16.248.12
caitre śuklacaturdaśyāṃ yastaṃ paśyati mānavaḥ ..
sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo maheśvaraḥ .. 12 ..
The man who beholds it on the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Caitra / goes to the supreme abode where the god Maheśvara resides.
16.248.248
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye brahmeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmāṣṭacatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 248 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and forty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Brahmeśvara,' 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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