Skandapurana 16.325
Skandapurāṇa 16.325
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16.325.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi vināyakamanuttamam ..
ṛṣitoyātaṭe ramye sarvavighnanivāraṇam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the unexcelled Vināyaka, / on the delightful bank of the Ṛṣitoyā, who removes all obstacles.
16.325.2
yo'sau devagaṇādhyakṣaḥ sākṣācca tripurāntakaḥ ..
gajarūpaṃ samāśritya hyunnate jagati sthitaḥ ..
prābhāsike mahākṣetre gaṇānāṃ koṭibhirvṛtaḥ .. 2 ..
He who is the lord of the divine hosts, directly the destroyer of Tripura, / having assumed an elephant form, stands in the elevated world, / in the great sacred field of Prabhāsa, surrounded by crores of gaṇas.
16.325.3
tasmātsarvaprayatnena yātrā nirvighnahetave ..
ārādhyo gaṇanāthaśca puṣpadhūpādibhiḥ sadā .. 3 ..
Therefore, with every effort, for the purpose of a journey free from obstacles, / Gaṇanātha should always be propitiated with flowers, incense, and the like.
16.325.4
caturthyāṃ ca caturthyāṃ ca sarvairnagaravāsibhiḥ ..
tasminmahotsavaḥ kāryo rāṣṭrakṣemārtha siddhaye .. 4 ..
On every fourth lunar day, by all inhabitants of the city, / a great festival should be celebrated there for the sake of the welfare and success of the realm.
16.325.325
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya unnatasvāmimāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma paṃcaviṃśatyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 325 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and twenty-fifth chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Unnatasvāmin', 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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