Skandapurana 16.286
Skandapurāṇa 16.286
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16.286.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi bālārkaṃ pāpanāśanam ..
agastyāśramato devi uttare nātidūrataḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to Bālārka, the destroyer of sins, / which is not very far to the north from Agastya's hermitage, O goddess. // 1
16.286.2
bāla eva tu yatrārkastapastepe purā priye ..
tena bālārka ityetannāma khyātaṃ dharātale .. 2 ..
Since the Sun, while still a boy, performed austerities there of old, O beloved, / it became renowned by this name, 'Bālārka', on the surface of the earth. // 2
16.286.3
taṃ dṛṣṭvā ravivāreṇa na kuṣṭhī jāyate naraḥ ..
bālānāṃ rogajā pīḍā na saṃbhūyātkadācana .. 3 ..
Having seen it on a Sunday, a man does not become a leper; / afflictions caused by disease shall never befall his children. // 3
16.286.286
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetra māhātmye bālārkamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaḍaśītyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 286 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-sixth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Bālārka', in the first [part], the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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