Skandapurana 16.356
Skandapurāṇa 16.356
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16.356.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi devaṃ bahusuvarṇakam ..
hiraṇyāpūrvadigbhāge sthāne bahusuvarṇake .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the god Bahusuvarṇaka, / in the eastern direction of the Hiraṇyā, in the place named Bahusuvarṇaka,
16.356.2
dharmaputreṇa yatraiva kṛto yajñaḥ suduṣkaraḥ ..
nāmnā bahusuvarṇeti sthāpya liṃgaṃ mahāprabham .. 2 ..
where a sacrifice very difficult to perform was celebrated by the Son of Dharma, / after establishing a liṅga of great splendor, under the name Bahusuvarṇa.
16.356.3
sarvakratūnāṃ phaladaṃ nāmnā sarveśvaraṃ viduḥ ..
tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ liṃgaṃ pūrṇaṃ sārasvatairjalaiḥ .. 3 ..
They know it by the name Sarveśvara, bestowing the fruit of all sacrifices. / In that very place is established the liṅga, filled with the waters of the Sarasvatī.
16.356.4
snātvā tatra varārohe piṇḍadānaṃ dadāti yaḥ ..
kulakoṭiṃ samuddhṛtya rudraloke mahīyate .. 4 ..
Having bathed there, O fair-hipped lady, whoever gives an offering of rice balls,
uplifting ten million ancestors, is glorified in the world of Rudra.
16.356.5
yastaṃ pūja yate bhaktyā gandhapuṣpairvidhānataḥ ..
koṭipūjāphalaṃ tasya tathetyāha sadāśivaḥ .. 5 ..
Whoever worships it with devotion, with perfumes and flowers according to the rule,
obtains the fruit of ten million acts of worship; so declared Sadāśiva.
16.356.355
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye bahusuvarṇeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcapañcāśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 355 ..
Thus ends the three hundred fifty-fifth chapter, titled 'The Description of the Greatness of Bahusuvarṇeśvara', in the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, the first section of the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, the seventh part of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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