Skanda Purana 16.267
Skandapurāṇa 16.267
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16.267.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi sthānaṃ gaṃgāpatheti ca ..
yatra gaṃgā mahāsrotā gaṃgeśvaraḥ śivastathā .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the place called Gaṅgāpatha, / where the Gaṅgā of great currents is, as well as Śiva as Gaṅgeśvara.
16.267.2
samudragāminī devi sā gaṃgā pāpanāśinī ..
uttāneti bhuvi khyātā nadī trailokyabhūṣaṇā .. 2 ..
That Gaṅgā flowing to the ocean, O goddess, destroys sin; / known on earth as Uttānā, it is an ornament of the three worlds.
16.267.3
tatra snātvā mahādevi gaṃgeśaṃ yastu pūjayet..
muktaḥ syātpātakairghorairaśvamedhāyutaṃ labhet.. 3 ..
Having bathed there, O great goddess, whoever worships Gaṅgeśa / would be freed from terrible sins and obtain [the fruit of] ten thousand horse sacrifices.
16.267.267
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye gaṅgāpathagaṃgeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptaṣaṣṭyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 267 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-seventh chapter, entitled “The Description of the Māhātmya of Gaṅgāpatha and Gaṅgeśvara,” 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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