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Skandapurana 16.249

Skandapurāṇa 16.249

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16.249.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi devaṃ vai saṃgameśvaram ..
golakṣamiti vikhyātaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam . 1 ..

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the god Saṃgameśvara, / renowned as Golakṣa, the destroyer of all sins,

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16.249.2

tasyaiva paścime bhāge sarvakāmaphalapradam ..
ṛṣiruddālakonāma purā hyāsīnmahātapāḥ .. 2 ..

in its western part, bestowing the fruit of all desires. / In ancient times there was a seer named Uddālaka of great austerity.

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16.249.3

sa purā saṃgamaṃ prāpya sarvapāpapraṇāśanam ..
sarasvatyāśca piṃgāyāstapastepe sureśvari .. 3 ..

Formerly, having reached the confluence of Sarasvatī and Piṅgā / that destroys all sins, he performed austerity, O queen of gods.

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16.249.4

tatastapasyatastasya tapo raudraṃ mahātmanaḥ ..
purato hyutthitaṃ liṃgaṃ bhaktyā yuktasya sundari .. 4 ..

Then, as that great-souled one endowed with devotion was performing severe austerity, / a liṅga indeed rose up before him, O beautiful one.

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16.249.5

etasminneva kāle tu vāguvācāśarīriṇī ..
uddālaka mahābāho śṛṇuṣvaitadvaco mama .. 5 ..

At that very moment, a bodiless voice spoke: / 'O mighty-armed Uddālaka, listen to this word of mine!

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16.249.6

adyaprabhṛti vāso'tra mama nityaṃ bhaviṣyati ..
yasmādatra samutpannaṃ saṃgame liṃgamuttamam ..
saṃgameśvaramityeva nāma cāsya bhavi ṣyati .. 6 ..

From this day forth my dwelling here will be perpetual. / Since this supreme liṅga arose here at the confluence, / its name shall indeed be Saṃgameśvara.

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16.249.7

yetra snānaṃ narāḥ kṛtvā saṃgame lokaviśrute ..
saṃgameśvaramīkṣante te yāṃti paramāṃ gatim .. 7 ..

Those men who, having bathed here at the world-renowned confluence, / behold Saṃgameśvara, go to the supreme state.'

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16.249.8

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tatastaṃ pūjayāmāsa divārātramataṃdritaḥ ..
tato dehāvasāne'sau gato yatra maheśvaraḥ .. 8 ..

Īśvara said: / Then he worshipped it day and night without wearying; / then, at the end of his body, he went to where Maheśvara is.

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16.249.249

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame ,prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye saṃgameśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonapañcāśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 249 ..

Thus ends the two hundred and forty-ninth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Saṃgameśvara,' 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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