[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) › 16.339 # Skandapurana 16.339 Skandapurāṇa 16.339 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.339.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi kūpaṃ trailokyaviśrutam .. devikāyāstaṭe ramye huṃkāreṇaiva pūryate .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the well renowned in the three worlds / on the charming bank of the Devikā, which fills up solely by the sound 'huṃ'. 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.2) tato'dhastātpunaryāti salilaṃ tatra bhāmini .. taṇḍīnāma purā prokto devikātaṭamāsthitaḥ .. 2 .. > Then, O spirited lady, the water goes back down below. / Formerly, one named Taṇḍī was settled on the bank of the Devikā; 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.3) tapastepe mahādevi śivabhaktiparāyaṇaḥ .. tasyaivaṃ tapyamānasya tasmindeśe varānane .. 3 .. > devoted to devotion to Śiva, he performed austerity, O great goddess. / As he was thus performing austerity in that region, O fair-faced one, 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.4) ājagāma mṛgo vṛddhastaṃ deśamandha dṛkpriye .. sa papāta mahāgarte agādhe jalavarjite .. 4 .. > an aged deer, blind of eye, came to that place, O beloved; / it fell into a vast, fathomless pit devoid of water. 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.5) taṃ dṛṣṭvā kṛpayāviṣṭaḥ sa munirmaunamāsthitaḥ .. huṃkāraṃ kurute tatra bhūyobhūyaśca bhāmini .. 5 .. > Seeing it, that sage, filled with compassion, maintained silence / and uttered the sound 'huṃ' there again and again, O spirited lady. 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.6) atha huṃkāraśabdena tasya gartaḥ prapūritaḥ .. tato mṛgo viniṣkrāṃtaḥ kṛcchreṇa salilātpriye .. 6 .. > Then, by the sound 'huṃ', that pit was filled up; / and then, O beloved, the deer came out with difficulty from the water. 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.7) mānuṣaṃ rūpamāśritya tamṛṣiṃ paryapṛcchata .. vismayaṃ paramaṃ gatvā kāmyadaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam .. 7 .. > Assuming a human form, it questioned that seer, / having experienced the greatest wonder, as to the fruit of the action that bestows wishes: 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.8) mṛgatve patitaścātra naro bhūtvā vinirgataḥ .. so'bravīttasya māhātmyaṃ salilasya dvijottamaḥ .. 8 .. > "I had fallen in the state of a deer, and have come forth having become a human!" / That best of the twice-born declared the māhātmya of that water: 8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.9) ato'haṃ naratāṃ prāpto nānyadastīha kāraṇam .. tatastatsalilaṃ bhūyaḥ praviṣṭaṃ dharaṇītale .. 9 .. > "From this have I attained human nature; there is no other reason here." / Then that water entered once more into the depths of the earth. 9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.10) tato huṃkṛtavānbhūyaḥ sa ṛṣiḥ kautukānvitaḥ .. āpūritaḥ punaḥ kūpaḥ salilena purā yathā .. 7.1.339.10 .. > Then, filled with curiosity, that seer uttered 'huṃ' again; / and the well was once more filled with water just as before. 7.1.339.10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.11) tataḥ sa kṛtavānsnānaṃ tathā ca pitṛtarpaṇam.. matvā tīrthavaraṃ tatra tataḥ prāptaḥ parāṃ gatim .. 11 .. > Then he performed ritual ablution and also the libation to the ancestors; / considering it an excellent sacred ford, he attained the supreme state. 11 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.12) adyāpi huṃkṛte tasminsalilaughaḥ pravartate .. tatra gatvā naro bhaktyā api pāparato'pi yaḥ .. 12 .. > Even today, when 'huṃ' is uttered, a flood of water surges forth. / A man who goes there with devotion, even if addicted to sin, 12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.13) na mānuṣyaṃ punarjanma prāpnoti jagatītale .. tatra snātvā śucirbhūtvā yaḥ śrāddhaṃ kurute naraḥ .. 13 .. > does not obtain a rebirth as a human on the earth's surface. / Having bathed there and become purified, the man who performs a ancestral offering (śrāddha) 13 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.14) mucyate sarvapāpebhyaḥ pitṛloke mahīyate .. kulāni tārayetsapta atītā'nāgatāni ca .. 14 .. > is freed from all sins and honored in the world of the ancestors; / he delivers seven ancestral lines, both past and future. 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.339.339](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339.339) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye devikāmāhātmye huṃkārakūpamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonacatvāriṃśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. .. 339 .. .. cha .. > Thus ends the three hundred and thirty-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the māhātmya of Huṃkārakūpa' in the māhātmya of Devikā, in the first \[part\], the Māhātmya of Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh \[section\], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the Skandapurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses. 339 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.339.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.339) · Pramāṇa