Skandapurana 16.250
Skandapurāṇa 16.250
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.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ trailokyaviśrutam ..
gaṃgeśvareti vikhyātaṃ saṃgameśvarapaścime .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga renowned in the three worlds, / celebrated as Gaṅgeśvara, to the west of Saṃgameśvara.
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yadā gaṃgā samāhūtā viṣṇunā prabhaviṣṇunā ..
antakāle'bhiṣekārthaṃ svakāyasya varānane .. 2 ..
When Gaṅgā was summoned by the all-powerful Viṣṇu / at his final hour to sprinkle his own body, O fair-faced one,
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tato dṛṣṭvā tu tatkṣetraṃ puṇyaṃ hyṛṣiniṣevitam ..
sarvatra vyāpitaṃ liṃgairāśramaiśca tapasvinām .. 3 ..
she then saw that holy field frequented by seers, / everywhere pervaded with liṅgas and hermitages of ascetics.
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tato gaṃgāsaricchreṣṭhā pūrvasāgaragāminī ..
sthāpayāmāsa talliṃgaṃ śivabhaktiparāyaṇā .. 4 ..
Then Gaṅgā, the best of rivers flowing to the eastern ocean, / devoted to Śiva, installed that liṅga.
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taṃ dṛṣṭvā tu varārohe gaṃgāsnānaphalaṃ labhet ..
aśvamedhasahasrasya phalaṃ prāpnoti mānavaḥ .. 5 ..
Beholding it, O fair-hipped one, one obtains the fruit of bathing in the Gaṅgā; / a man attains the fruit of a thousand horse-sacrifices.
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iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye gaṃgeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcāśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 250 ..
Thus ends the two hundred fiftieth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Gaṅgeśvara,' in the first section, the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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