Skandapurana 16.268
Skandapurāṇa 16.268
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16.268.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi camasodbhedamuttamam ..
yatra brahmā'karotsatraṃ varṣāṇāmayutaṃ priye .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the excellent Camasodbheda, / where Brahmā performed a sacrificial session lasting ten thousand years, O beloved.
16.268.2
camasaiḥ pītavantaste somaṃ devā maharṣayaḥ ..
camasodbhedanāmeti tena khyātaṃ dharātale .. 2 ..
With camasa vessels those gods and great seers drank soma; / therefore it is famed on the surface of the earth by the name Camasodbheda.
16.268.3
tatra snātvā sarasvatyāṃ piṃḍadānaṃ dadāti yaḥ ..
gayākoṭiguṇaṃ puṇyaṃ vaiśākhyāṃ prāpnuyānnaraḥ .. 3 ..
Having bathed there in the Sarasvatī, whatever man gives an offering of rice-balls / on the full moon of Vaiśākha, attains a merit ten million times that of Gayā.
16.268.268
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye camasodbhedamāhātmya varṇanaṃnāmāṣṭaṣaṣṭyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ... 268 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and sixty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of Camasodbheda,' in the first [part], the 'Glory of Prabhāsa-kṣetra,' of the seventh section, Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa, in the Skandapurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.
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