Skandapurana 16.318
Skandapurāṇa 16.318
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16.318.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyāśca pūrvadigbhāge nātidūre vyavasthitam ..
liṃgaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ hi sarvapātakanāśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / In the eastern direction from it, not very far away, / is situated a liṅga of great power, destroying all sins,
16.318.2
brahmeśvareti nāmāḍhyaṃ brāhmaṇaiśca pratiṣṭhitam ..
ṛṣitoyājale snātvā talliṃgaṃ yaḥ prapūjayet ..
sa bhavedvedavidvipro jāḍyabhāvavivarjitaḥ .. 2 ..
known by the name Brahmeśvara, consecrated by brahmins. / Whoever bathes in the waters of the Ṛṣitoyā and worships that liṅga / will become a brahmin versed in the Vedas, freed from dullness.
16.318.318
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye brahmeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmāṣṭādaśottaratriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ .. 318 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and eighteenth chapter, entitled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Brahmeśvara’, in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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