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# Skandapurana 16.323

Skandapurāṇa 16.323

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.323.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.323.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.323.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.323.3)

taṃ dṛṣṭvā pūjayitvā ca muktaḥ syātsarvakilbiṣaiḥ ..3..

> Having seen and worshipped him, one becomes freed from all sins.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.323.323](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.323.1) — English, machine translation

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