Skandapurana 16.330
Skandapurāṇa 16.330
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16.330.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasmāttadunnatasthānāduttare yojanatrayāt ..
tatra taptodakasvāmī talo yatra hataḥ purā .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Three yojanas to the north from that elevated place, / there is Taptodakasvāmin, where Tala was slain formerly.
16.330.2
daityānāmadhipo devi viṣṇunā prabhaviṣṇunā ..
kṛtvā varṣaśataṃ yuddhaṃ talasvāmī tato'bhavat .. 2 ..
After fighting for a hundred years with the sovereign lord of the Daityas, / O goddess, the powerful Viṣṇu then became Talasvāmin.
16.330.3
taptakuṇḍe naraḥ snātvā talasvāminamarcayet ..
hṛtvā piṃḍapradānaṃ tu koṭiyātrāphalaṃ labhet .. 3 ..
Having bathed in the hot pool, a person should worship Talasvāmin; / by performing the offering of funeral cakes, one obtains the fruit of ten million pilgrimages.
16.330.330
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye talasvāmimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma triṃśaduttaratriśa tatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 330 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and thirtieth chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Talasvāmin', 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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