Skanda Purana 16.296
Skandapurāṇa 16.296
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16.296.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasmādāgneyadigbhāge gavyūtisaptakena ca ..
sthānaṃ devakulaṃnāma devānāṃ yatra saṃgamaḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the southeast of that, at a distance of seven gavyūtis, / is the place named Devakula, where the gathering of the gods takes place. (1)
16.296.2
ṛṣīṇāṃ yatra siddhānāṃ purā liṃge nipātite ..
yasmājjāto mahādevi tasmāddevakulaṃ smṛtam .. 2 ..
Where long ago, when the liṅga was cast down by the perfected seers, / from which [it] arose, O great goddess, it is therefore called Devakula. (2)
16.296.3
tasya paścimadigbhāga ṛṣitoyā mahānadī ..
ṛṣīṇāṃ vallabhā devi sarvapātakanāśinī .. 3 ..
To the west of it is the great river Ṛṣitoyā, / dear to the seers, O goddess, destroying all sins. (3)
16.296.4
tatra snātvā naraḥ samyakpitṝṇāṃ nirvapennaraḥ ..
saptavarṣāyutānyeva pitṝṇāṃ tṛptimāvahet .. 4 ..
A man having bathed there properly, a man should offer libations to the ancestors; / it indeed brings satisfaction to the ancestors for seventy thousand years. (4)
16.296.5
suvarṇaṃ tatra deyaṃ tu ajinaṃ kaṃbalaṃ tathā ..
āṣāḍhe tvamāvāsyāyāṃ yatkiñciddīyate dhruvam .. 5 ..
Gold should be given there, as well as an antelope skin and a blanket; / whatever is given on the new moon of Āṣāḍha is surely [meritorious]. (5)
16.296.6
varddhate ṣoḍaśaguṇaṃ yāvadāyāti pūrṇimā .. 6 ..
It increases sixteenfold by the time the full moon arrives. (6)
16.296.7
suvarṇaṃ tatra deyaṃ tu ajinaṃ kaṃbalaṃ tathā ..
mucyate pātakaiḥ sarvaiḥ saptajanmakṛtairapi .. 7 ..
Gold should be given there, as well as an antelope skin and a blanket; / one is freed from all sins, even those committed in seven lifetimes. (7)
16.296.296
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya ṛṣitoyānadīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṇṇavatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..296.. ..
Thus ends the two hundred and ninety-sixth chapter, named the Description of the Māhātmya of the River Ṛṣitoyā, in the first [part], the Māhātmya of the Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses, the glorious Skandapurāṇa. (296)
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