Skandapurana 16.252
Skandapurāṇa 16.252
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16.252.1
.. īśvara uvāca... ..
tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ trailokyaviśrutam ..
tatra śaṃkaranātheti prasiddhaṃ pāpanāśanam .. .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Next, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga renowned across the three worlds, / celebrated there as Śaṃkaranātha, the destroyer of sin.
16.252.2
sthāpitaṃ bhānunā devi kṛtvā tatra mahattapaḥ ..
tamarcayitvā deveśaṃ sopavāso maheśvaram.. 2 ..
It was installed by the Sun, O goddess, having performed great austerity there. / Having worshipped that supreme Lord, the ruler of the gods, while fasting,
16.252.3
brāhmaṇānbhojayettatra śrāddhaṃ kuryājjitendriyaḥ ..
śaktyā hiraṇyaṃ vāsāṃsi vipre dadyātsamāhitaḥ ..
sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 3 ..
one should feed brahmins there and, with senses subdued, perform an ancestral rite. / Attentive, one should give gold and clothes to the priest according to one's capacity; / he goes to the supreme abode—there should be no doubt about this.
16.252.252
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye śaṅkaranāthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvipañcāśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 252 ..
Thus ends the two hundred fifty-second chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Śaṅkaranātha,' 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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