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Skandapurana 16.355

Skandapurāṇa 16.355

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16.355.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi devagupteśvaraṃ priye ..
tatra paścimavāyavye yatra somo'karottapaḥ .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the god Gupteśvara, O beloved, / there in the north-west, where the Moon performed austerity,

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16.355.2

gupto bhūtvā kuṣṭharogāllajjayādhomukhaḥ sthitaḥ ..
divyaṃ varṣasahasraṃ tu prabhāsakṣetra uttame .. 2 ..

having hidden himself on account of leprosy, keeping his face down out of shame, / for a celestial thousand years in the excellent sacred field of Prabhāsa.

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16.355.3

tataḥ pratyakṣatāṃ yātaḥ sarvadevapatiḥ śivaḥ ..
tuṣṭo babhūva caṃdrasya kṣayanāśaṃ tathā'karot .. 3 ..

Then Śiva, the lord of all the gods, became visible to him; / he was pleased with the Moon and removed his consumption.

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16.355.4

kṣayarogavinirmuktastato'bhūnmṛgalāṃchanaḥ ..
pratiṣṭhāpya mahāliṃgaṃ surāsuranamaskṛtam .. 4 ..

Freed from the disease of consumption, the hare-marked [Moon] then / established a great liṅga worshipped by gods and asuras.

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16.355.5

guptastepe tapo yasmāttasmādgupteśvaraḥ smṛtaḥ ..
sarvakuṣṭhaharo devo darśanātsparśanādapi .. 5 ..

Because he performed austerity while hidden, it is therefore remembered as Gupteśvara. / That god removes all leprosy through darśana and even through touch.

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16.355.6

somavāre viśeṣeṇa yastalliṃgaṃ prapūjayet ..
tasyānvaye'pi deveśi kuṣṭhī kaścinna jāyate .. 6 ..

Whoever worships that liṅga, especially on a Monday, / in his lineage too, O ruler of gods, no leper is ever born.

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16.355.354

iti śrīskānde mahā purāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye gupteśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuṣpañcāśaduttaratriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ .. 354 ..

Thus ends the three hundred and fifty-fourth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Gupteśvara,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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