Skandapurana 16.360
Skandapurāṇa 16.360
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16.360.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi sthānaṃ śṛṃgasaro'bhidham .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Then, O great goddess, one should go to the place named Śṛṅgasaras.
16.360.2
śṛṃgāreśvaranāmā ca tatra devaḥ pratiṣṭhitaḥ ..
śṛṅgāraṃ vidhivaccakre yatra gopīyuto hariḥ .. 2 ..
The god named Śṛṅgāreśvara is consecrated there,
where Hari along with the cowherd women performed decoration according to rule.
16.360.3
śṛṅgāreśvaranāmā ca tena pāpaughanāśanaḥ ..
pūjayedyo vidhānena tatra sthāne sthitaṃ bhavam ..
dāridryaduḥkhasaṃyukto na sa bhūyādbhave kvacit .. 3 ..
He is named Śṛṅgāreśvara, and on that account he destroys the flood of sins.
Whoever worships Bhava established in that place according to rule
shall never in this worldly existence be afflicted with poverty and suffering.
16.360.359
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye śṛṃgāreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonaṣaṣṭyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 359 ..
Thus ends the three hundred fifty-ninth chapter, titled 'The Description of the Greatness of Śṛṅgāreśvara', 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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