Skandapurana 16.275
Skandapurāṇa 16.275
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16.275.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi devaṃ caiva trilocanam ..
ṛṣitīrthasamīpe tu sarvapātakanāśanam ..
nyaṅkumatyuttare kūla ṛṣibhiḥ pūjitaṃ purā .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the three-eyed god, / near Ṛṣitīrtha, the destroyer of all sins, / on the northern bank of the Nyaṅkumatī, worshipped by the seers of old,
16.275.2
trinetrā matsyakā yatra jalaṃ sphaṭikasannibham ..
tatra snātvā naro devi mucyate brahmahatyayā .. 2 ..
where the small fish are three-eyed and the water resembles crystal; / having bathed there, O mortal, a person is freed from the murder of a brahmin.
16.275.3
kṛṣṇapakṣe caturddaśyāṃ māse bhādrapade tathā ..
upavāsaṃ tu kurvīta rātrau jāgaraṇaṃ tathā .. 3 ..
And on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Bhādrapada, / one should observe a fast and keep a vigil through the night.
16.275.4
prātaḥ śrāddhaṃ prakurvīta vidhivatpūjayecchivam ..
rudraloke vaseddevi varṣāṇāmayutatrayam .. 4 ..
In the morning, one should perform a śrāddha and properly worship Śiva; / O goddess, one shall dwell in the realm of Rudra for thirty thousand years.
16.275.275
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye trinetreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcasaptatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ.. 275 ..
Thus ends the two hundred seventy-fifth chapter, titled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Trinetreśvara,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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