[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) › 16.337 # Skandapurana 16.337 Skandapurāṇa 16.337 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.337.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.337.337](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.337.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.337](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.337) · Pramāṇa