[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.279 # Skandapurana 16.279 Skandapurāṇa 16.279 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.279.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. tato gacchenmahādevi cyavanārkamanuttamam .. hiraṇyāpūrvabhāgasthaṃ cyavanena pratiṣṭhitam..1.. > Īśvara said: / "Next, O great goddess, one should go to the unsurpassable Cyavanārka, / situated on the eastern side of the Hiraṇyā, established by Cyavana, 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.2) sarvakāmapradaṃ nṛṇāṃ pūjitaṃ vidhivannaraiḥ .. saptamyāṃ ca vidhānena yaḥ stoṣyati raviṃ naraḥ .. 2 .. > which grants all desires to mortals when duly worshipped by men. / And whatever man praises the sun according to rule on the seventh lunar day, 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.3) aṣṭottaraśatairnāmnāṃ samyakchraddhāsamanvitaḥ .. śṛṇu tāni mahādevi śucirbhūtvā samāhitaḥ .. 3 .. > with the one hundred and eight names, endowed with full faith— / listen to them, O great goddess, having become pure and concentrated. 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.4) kṣaṇaṃ tvaṃ kuru deveśi sarvaṃ vakṣyāmyaśeṣataḥ .. dhaumyena tu yathāpūrvaṃ pārthāya sumahātmane .. 4 .. > Grant a moment, O ruler of the gods; I will tell you everything completely, / just as of old Dhaumya told to the great-souled son of Pṛthā (Arjuna). 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.5) nāmāṣṭaśatamākhyātaṃ tacchṛṇuṣva mahāmate .. sūryo'ryamā bhagastvaṣṭā pūṣā'rkaḥ savitā raviḥ .. 5 .. > The one hundred and eight names were proclaimed; listen to that, O intelligent one: / Sūrya, Aryaman, Bhaga, Tvaṣṭṛ, Pūṣan, Arka, Savitṛ, Ravi, 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.6) gabhastimānajaḥ kālo mṛtyurddhātā prabhākaraḥ .. pṛthivyāpaśca tejaśca khaṃ vāyuśca parāyaṇaḥ .. 6 .. > Gabhastimant, Aja, Kāla, Mṛtyu, Dhātṛ, Prabhākara, / Earth, Water, Fire, Sky, and Wind, the Supreme Refuge, 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.7) somo bṛhaspatiḥ śukro budhoṃ'gāraka eva ca .. indro vivasvāndīptāṃśuḥ śuciḥ sauriḥ śanaiścaraḥ .. .. 7 .. > Soma, Bṛhaspati, Śukra, Budha, and Aṅgāraka, / Indra, Vivasvant, Dīptāṃśu, Śuci, Śauri, Śanaiścara, 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.8) brahmā rudraśca viṣṇuśca skando vaiśravaṇo yamaḥ .. vaidyuto jāṭharaścāgniriṃdhanastejasāṃ patiḥ .. 8 .. > \[He is\] Brahmā, Rudra, and Viṣṇu, Skanda, Vaiśravaṇa, Yama, / lightning, digestive fire, fuel, and the lord of splendours. (8) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.9) dharmadhvajo vedakarttā vedāṃgo vedavāhanaḥ .. kṛtaṃ tretā dvāparaśca kaliḥ sarvāmarāśrayaḥ .. 9 .. > \[He has\] the banner of dharma, the author of the Vedas, the limb of the Vedas, the vehicle of the Vedas, / the Kṛta, Tretā, Dvāpara, and Kali \[ages\], the refuge of all the immortals. (9) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.10) kalākāṣṭhāmuhūrttāśca pakṣā māsā aharniśāḥ .. saṃvatsarakaro'śvasthaḥ kālacakro vibhāvasuḥ .. 7.1.279.10 .. > \[He is\] the kalās, kāṣṭhās, muhūrtas, fortnights, months, days and nights, / the maker of the year, seated on a horse, the wheel of time, Vibhāvasu. (10) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.11) puruṣaḥ śāśvato yogī vyaktāvyaktaḥ sanātanaḥ .. lokādhyakṣaḥ prajādhyakṣo viśvakarmā tamonudaḥ ..11.. > \[He is\] the Spirit, eternal, yogin, manifest and unmanifest, perpetual, / the overseer of the worlds, the overseer of creatures, Viśvakarman, the dispeller of darkness. (11) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.12) varuṇaḥ sāgaroṃśuśca jīvanto jīvano'rihā .. bhūtāśrayo bhūtapatiḥ sarvabhūtaniṣevitaḥ .. 12 .. > \[He is\] Varuṇa, the ocean, ray of light, living, giving life, slayer of enemies, / the refuge of beings, the lord of beings, worshipped by all beings. (12) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.13) sraṣṭā saṃvarttako vahniḥ sarvasyādikaro'malaḥ .. anaṃtaḥ kapilo bhānuḥ kāmadaḥ sarvatomukhaḥ .. 13 .. > \[He is\] the creator, the destroyer, fire, the originator of everything, spotless, / endless, tawny, the sun, bestower of wishes, facing all directions. (13) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.14) jayo viṣādo varadaḥ sarvadhātuniṣevitaḥ .. samaḥ suvarṇo bhūtādiḥ śīghragaḥ prāṇadhārakaḥ .. 14 .. > \[He is\] victory, dejection, giver of boons, worshipped by all elements, / impartial, golden, the origin of beings, swift-moving, the upholder of life-breaths. (14) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.15) dhanvaṃtarirdhūmaketurādidevo'diteḥ sutaḥ.. dvādaśātmā'raviṃdākṣaḥ pitā mātā pitāmahaḥ ..15.. > \[He is\] Dhanvantari, the comet, the primal god, the son of Aditi, / twelve-souled, lotus-eyed, father, mother, grandfather. (15) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.15\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.15_1) svargadvāraṃ prajādvāraṃ mokṣadvāraṃ triviṣṭapam .. dehakarttā praśāṃtātmā viśvātmā viśvatomukhaḥ .. carācarātmā sūkṣmātmā maitreṇa vapuṣā'nvitaḥ .. 15 .. > \[He is\] the door to heaven, the door to progeny, the door to liberation, the celestial realm, / maker of the body, tranquil-souled, the soul of all, facing all directions, / the soul of moving and unmoving, subtle-souled, endowed with a benevolent form. (16) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.17) etadvai kīrtanīyasya sūryasyāmitatejasaḥ .. nāmnāmaṣṭottaraśataṃ proktaṃ śakreṇa dhīmatā .. 17 .. > Indeed, this hymn of one hundred and eight names of the sun of boundless splendour, / who is worthy of praise, was spoken by wise Śakra. (17) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.18) śakrācca nāradaḥ prāpto dhaumyastu tadanantaram .. dhaumyādyudhiṣṭhiraḥ prāpya sarvānkāmānavāptavān .. 18 .. > From Śakra, Nārada obtained it, and then Dhaumya next; / having obtained it from Dhaumya, Yudhiṣṭhira attained all his desires. (18) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.19) etāni kīrtanīyasya sūryasyāmitatejasaḥ .. nāmāni yaḥ paṭhennityaṃ sarvānkāmānavāpnuyāt .. 19 .. > Whoever recites daily these names of the sun of boundless splendour, / who is worthy of praise, shall attain all desires. (19) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.20) surapitṛmanujayakṣasevitamasuraniśācarasiddhavaṃditam .. varakanakahutāśanaprabhaṃ tvamapi nama hitāya bhāskaram .. 7.1.279.20 .. > Served by gods, ancestors, men, and yakṣas, praised by asuras, night-wanderers, and siddhas, / possessing the splendour of choice gold and fire: you too bow down to the Sun for your own welfare. (20) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.21) sūryodaye yastu samāhitaḥ paṭhetsa putralābhaṃ dhanaratnasaṃcayān .. labheta jātismaratāṃ sadā naraḥ smṛtiṃ ca medhāṃ ca sa viṃdate pumān .... 21.. > The focused man who recites \[this\] at sunrise would obtain sons and heaps of wealth and gems; / that man always obtains memory of past lives, and he gains memory and wisdom. (21) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.22) imaṃ stavaṃ devavarasya yo naraḥ prakīrttayecchuddhamanāḥ samāhitaḥ .. sa mucyate śokadavāgnisārāllabheta kāmānmanasā yathepsitān ..22.. > That person who, with a purified mind and concentrated focus, proclaims this praise of the foremost god, / is freed from the forest fire of sorrow and obtains the desires wished for in his heart. (22) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.279.279](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279.279) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye cyavanādityamāhātmyasūryāṣṭottaraśatanāma māhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonāśītyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ.. 279.. > Thus ends the two hundred and seventy-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the greatness of the Sun's one hundred and eight names in the greatness of Cyavanāditya', in the first \[part\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. (279) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.279.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*southern.3.3.70) — Sanskrit - [Śāktapramoda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.saktapramoda.11.1493) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.279) · Pramāṇa