Skanda Purana 16.263
Skandapurāṇa 16.263
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16.263.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi cchāyāliṃgamiti smṛtam ..
uttare nyaṃkumatyāśca bahvāścaryaṃ mahatphalam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the one known as the Chāyāliṅga, / north of the Nyaṅkumatī, full of great wonders and yielding great fruit.
16.263.2
taṃ dṛṣṭvā mānavo devi mucyate paṃcapātakaiḥ ..
sārddhadvādaśahastaṃ tu yojanatritayena tu ..
na paśyaṃti mahādevi pāpiṣṭhā ye tu mānavāḥ .. 2 ..
Having seen it, O goddess, a mortal is freed from the five grave sins. / Measuring twelve cubits and a half, across three yojanas, / most sinful mortals do not behold it, O great goddess.
16.263.263
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye chāyāliṃga māhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma triṣaṣṭyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 263 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-third chapter, entitled “The Description of the Māhātmya of the Chāyāliṅga,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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