Skandapurana 16.337
Skandapurāṇa 16.337
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16.337.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi nārāyaṇagṛhaṃ param ..
goṣpadāddakṣiṇe bhāge sāgarasya taṭe śubhe .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the supreme abode of Nārāyaṇa, / situated to the south of Goṣpada on the auspicious shore of the ocean, 1
16.337.2
nyaṃkumatyāḥ samīpe tu sarvapātakanāśane ..
tatrakalpāṃtarasthāyī svayaṃ tiṣṭhati keśavaḥ .. 2 ..
near the Nyaṅkumatī, which destroys all sins. / There Keśava himself stays, abiding until the end of the kalpa, 2
16.337.3
pitṝṇāmuddharaṇārthāya hyasminraudre kalau yuge ..
yadā daityavināśaṃ sa kurute bhagavānhariḥ .. 3 ..
for the sake of delivering the ancestors in this terrible Kali age. / Whenever the blessed lord Hari causes the destruction of the Daityas, 3
16.337.4
viśrāmārthaṃ tadā tatra gṛhe tiṣṭhati nityaśaḥ ..
nārāyaṇagṛhaṃ tena vikhyātaṃ jagatītale .. 4..
he always remains in that house for the sake of resting. / Therefore it became renowned upon the surface of the earth as Nārāyaṇagṛha. 4
16.337.5
kṛte janārdanonāma tretāyāṃ madhusūdanaḥ ..
dvāpare puṇḍarīkākṣaḥ kalau nārāyaṇaḥ smṛtaḥ .. 5 ..
In the Kṛta age he is remembered as Janārdana, in the Tretā age as Madhusūdana, / in the Dvāpara as Puṇḍarīkākṣa, and in the Kali age as Nārāyaṇa. 5
16.337.6
evaṃ caturyuge prāpte punaḥpunararindama ..
kṛtvā dharmavyavasthānaṃ tatsthānaṃ pratipadyate .. 6 ..
When each of the four ages arrives in this way again and again, O tamer of foes, / having established dharma, he repairs to that place. 6
16.337.7
ekādaśyāṃ nirāhāro yastaṃ devaṃ prapaśyati ..
sa paśyati dhruvaṃ sthāne pratyānantaṃ hareḥ padam .. 7..
Whoever, fasting on an Ekādaśī, beholds that god, / truly beholds the eternal abode of Hari in that place. 7
16.337.8
tena pītāni vastrāṇi deyāni dvijapuṃgave ..
snānaṃ śrāddhaṃ ca kartavyaṃ samyagyātrāphalepsubhiḥ .. 8 ..
Yellow garments should be given by him to an eminent twice-born; / a ritual ablution and an ancestral rite should be performed by those desiring the complete fruit of the pilgrimage. 8
16.337.9
iti te kathitaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ harisaṃketaniketanodbhavam ..
śṛṇute vā prayatastu yaḥ sudhīḥ paṭhate vā labhate sa sadgatim .. 9 ..
Thus has been spoken to you the great power arising from the chosen dwelling place of Hari; / whatever wise person, being restrained, hears it or recites it, attains the good path. 9
16.337.337
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye nyaṃkumatīmāhātmye nārāyaṇagṛhamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptatriṃśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 337 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and thirty-seventh chapter, titled 'The Description of the Greatness of Nārāyaṇagṛha' in the Greatness of the Nyaṅkumatī, in the Greatness of Prabhāsakṣetra, in the first [part], in the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the seventh [book], in the Saṃhitā of eighty-one thousand [verses], in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa. 337
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