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# Skandapurana 16.319.32

Skandapurāṇa 16.319.32

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.319.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.319.32)

.. ṛṣaya ūcuḥ .. ..  
asamarthāḥ paritrāṇe jitāhārāstaponvitāḥ ..  
nagareṇeha kiṃ kurmastava bhaktimabhīpsavaḥ .. .. 32 ..

> The seers said: / “Incapable of worldly maintenance, having conquered our appetite and devoted to austerity, / what shall we do with a city here, we who desire devotion to you?”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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