[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.330 # Skandapurana 16.330 Skandapurāṇa 16.330 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.330.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.330.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.330.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.330.330](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.330.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.330](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.330) · Pramāṇa