[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) › 16.248 # Skandapurana 16.248 Skandapurāṇa 16.248 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.248.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.248.248](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.248.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.248](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.248) · Pramāṇa