Skandapurana 16.364
Skandapurāṇa 16.364
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16.364.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi hiraṇyātaṭasaṃsthitam ..
sthānaṃ tuṇḍapuraṃnāma yatrāsau ghargharo hradaḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Then, O great goddess, one should go to the place named Tuṇḍapura,
situated on the bank of the Hiraṇyā, where that pool Gharghara is located.
16.364.2
tatra kandeśvaro devo yatra baddhā jaṭā mayā ..
tatra snātvā naraḥ samyaktṃ devaṃ yaḥ prapūjayet ..
sa muktaḥ pātakairghoraiḥ prāpnuyācchāsanaṃ śubham .. 2 ..
There is the god Kandeśvara, where my matted hair was bound;
having bathed there properly, a person who worships that god
is freed from terrible sins and attains an auspicious domain.
16.364.363
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye hiraṇyātuṇḍapura ghargharahradakandeśvara māhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma triṣaṣṭyuttaratriśatata mo'dhyāyaḥ ..363..
Thus ends the three hundred sixty-third chapter, titled 'The Description of the Greatness of Hiraṇyā, Tuṇḍapura, the Gharghara Pool, and Kandeśvara', 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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