Skandapurana 16.323
Skandapurāṇa 16.323
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16.323.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tataḥ paśyenmahādevi tasya dakṣiṇataḥ sthitam ..
kṣemeśvareti vikhyātamṛṣitoyātaṭe sthitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Next, O great goddess, one should behold the [shrine] situated to its south, / known as Kṣemeśvara, situated on the bank of the Ṛṣitoyā. 1
16.323.2
bhūtīśvareti nāmāsya pūrvaṃ ca parikīrtitam ..
kṣemeśeti kalau devi tasya nāma prakīrtitam ..2..
Formerly, his name was proclaimed as Bhūtīśvara; / in the Kali [age], O goddess, his name is proclaimed as Kṣemeśa.
16.323.3
taṃ dṛṣṭvā pūjayitvā ca muktaḥ syātsarvakilbiṣaiḥ ..3..
Having seen and worshipped him, one becomes freed from all sins.
16.323.323
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kṣemeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma trayoviṃśatyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 323 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and twenty-third chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Kṣemeśvara', in the first [part], the 'Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra', of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse collection.
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