Skandapurana 16.289
Skandapurāṇa 16.289
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16.289.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva dakṣiṇe devi tasmādgavyūtimātrataḥ ..
pātālagāminī gaṃgā saṃsthitā pāpanāśinī .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the south of that very place, O goddess, at a distance of just a gavyūti, / is the Ganges that flows to Pātāla, the destroyer of sins. // 1
16.289.2
viśvāmitreṇa cāhūtā snānārthaṃ varavarṇini ..
tatra snātvā mahādevi mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ .. 2 ..
She was summoned by Viśvāmitra for the purpose of bathing, O fair-complexioned one; / having bathed there, O great goddess, one is freed from all sins. // 2
16.289.3
tatra gaṃgeśvaraṃ dṛṣṭvā viśvāmitreśvaraṃ tathā ..
bāleśvaraṃ ca saṃprekṣya sarvānkāmānavāpnuyāt .. 3 ..
Having seen Gaṅgeśvara there, and likewise Viśvāmitreśvara, / and having beheld Bāleśvara, one attains all desires. // 3
16.289.289
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ sahitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye bālārkamāhātmye pātāla gaṃgeśvaraviśvāmitreśvarabāleśvarābhidhaliṃgatrayamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonanavatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 289 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Triad of Liṅgas Named Pātālagaṅgeśvara, Viśvāmitreśvara, and Bāleśvara in the Bālārka-māhātmya', 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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