Skandapurana 16.346
Skandapurāṇa 16.346
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16.346.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasmādāgneyadigbhāge sthitaḥ karkoṭako raviḥ ..
pūrvakalpe mahādevi smṛtaḥ karkoṭakānvitaḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Situated to the southeast of that is the sun [known as] Karkoṭaka; / in a previous kalpa, O great goddess, it is remembered as associated with Karkoṭaka.
16.346.2
tasya darśanamātreṇa prītāḥ syuḥ sarvadevatāḥ ..
saptamyāṃ ravivāreṇa dhūpa gaṃdhānulepanaiḥ ..
pūjayedyo vidhānena mucyate sarvakilbiṣaiḥ .. 2 ..
Merely by seeing it, all the deities are pleased. / Whoever worships [it] according to the ordinances with incense, fragrant pastes, and ointments / on the seventh lunar day falling on a Sunday, is freed from all sins.
16.346.346
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye karkoṭakārkamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṭacatvāriṃśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 346 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and forty-sixth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Karkoṭakārka', in the first [part], the Māhātmya of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Saṃhitā of eighty-one thousand [verses] in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.
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