Skandapurana 16.340
Skandapurāṇa 16.340
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16.340.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi tatra sthāne tu saṃsthitam..
caṇḍīśvaraṃ mahāliṃgaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to Caṇḍīśvara, the great liṅga / situated in that place, the destroyer of all sins. 1
16.340.2
tatra śuklacaturddaśyāṃ kārtike māsi bhāmini ..
upavāsaparo bhūtvā yaḥ karoti prajāgaram ..
sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo maheśvaraḥ .. 2 ..
There, on the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Kārttika, O spirited lady, / whoever observes a fast and keeps a vigil / goes to the supreme abode where the divine Maheśvara dwells. 2
16.340.340
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye devikāmāhātmye caṇḍīśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma catvāriṃśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 340 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and fortieth chapter, titled 'Description of the māhātmya of Caṇḍīśvara' 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. 340
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