Skandapurana 16.342
Skandapurāṇa 16.342
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16.342.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasya dakṣiṇanairṛtye nātidūre vyavasthitam ..
liṃgaṃ pāpaharaṃ devi svayaṃ somapratiṣṭhitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the south-south-west of it, established not very far away, / is the liṅga that removes sins, O goddess, installed by Soma himself. 1
16.342.2
tatraivāmṛtakuṇḍaṃ tu kalākuṇḍaṃ tu tatsmṛtam ..
tatra snātvā tu caṃdreśaṃ yo naraḥ pūjayiṣyati .. 2 ..
Right there is the Amṛtakuṇḍa, which is known as Kalākuṇḍa; / having bathed there, whatever man worships Candreśa, 2
16.342.3
sa tu varṣasahasrasya tapaḥphalamavāpsyati ..
tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ devi taḍāgaṃ caṃdranirmitam .. 3 ..
he will obtain the fruit of a thousand years of austerity. / Right there, O goddess, lies the pool created by the Moon, 3
16.342.4
dhanuḥṣoḍaśavistāraṃ caṃdreśātpūrvapaścime ..
tatpūrvaṃ te samākhyātaṃ muktidānādipūrvakam .. 4 ..
sixteen bows in breadth, to the east and west of Candreśa; / that has been told to you previously, beginning with the bestowing of liberation. 4
16.342.342
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya āśāpūramāhātmye caṃdreśvarakalākuṇḍatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvicatvāriṃśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. .. 342 .. ..
Thus ends the three hundred and forty-second chapter, titled 'Description of the māhātmya of the sacred ford of Candreśvara and Kalākuṇḍa' in the māhātmya of Āśāpūra, in the first [part], the Māhātmya of Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the Skandapurāṇa comprising eighty-one thousand verses. 342
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