Skandapurana 16.328
Skandapurāṇa 16.328
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16.328.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasmādvāyavyadigbhāge sthitaṃ pāpapraṇāśanam ..
saṃgameśvaranāmāḍhyamṛṣayo yatra saṃgatāḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the northwest direction from that stands the destroyer of sins, / possessing the name Saṃgameśvara, where the seers gathered.
16.328.2
tasyaiva pūrvadigbhāge kuṇḍikā pāpanāśinī ..
vaḍavānalasaṃyuktā yatrāyātā sarasvatī .. 2 ..
To the eastern direction of it is a small pool that destroys sin, / joined with the submarine fire, where Sarasvatī arrived.
16.328.3
kuṃḍikāyāṃ naraḥ snātvā saṃgameśvaramarcayet ..
tasya janmasahasrāṇi lakṣmyāḥ putrai priyaiḥ saha ..
asaṃgamaṃ mahādevi na kadācitprajāyate .. 3 ..
Having bathed in the pool, a man should worship Saṃgameśvara; / for a thousand births, along with fortune, sons, and loved ones, / separation, O great goddess, never befalls him.
16.328.4
mucyate pātakaiḥ sarvairājanma maraṇāṃtikaiḥ ..4..
He is freed from all sins, [accumulated] from birth until death.
16.328.328
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye saṃgameśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāmāṣṭāviṃśatyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 328..
Thus ends the three hundred and twenty-eighth chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Saṃgameśvara', 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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