Skandapurana 16.44
Skandapurāṇa 16.44
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16.44.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
ādityeśaṃ samabhyarcya punaḥ someśvaraṃ vrajet ..
taṃ saṃpūjya vidhānena paṃcāṃgena viśeṣataḥ .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Having worshipped Ādityeśa, one should go again to Someśvara.
Having worshipped him according to the rules, especially with five parts of the body, / 1
16.44.2
dṛṣṭvā someśvaraṃ caiva sāṣṭāṃgaṃ praṇipatya ca ..
pradakṣiṇādikaṃ kuryātsaṃpaśyecca punaḥpunaḥ .. 2 ..
and beholding Someśvara, having prostrated with eight limbs,
one should perform circumambulation and the like, and gaze upon [him] again and again. / 2
16.44.3
sūryācandramasorliṃgaṃ triḥkṛtvā prayataḥ śuciḥ ..
agnīṣomātmakaṃ karma tena sarvaṃ kṛtaṃ bhavet .. 3 ..
Restrained and pure, having done so thrice before the liṅga of Sūrya and the Moon,
all rites characterized by Agni and Soma have thereby been performed by him. / 3
16.44.4
umādevīṃ tato gacchetsomeśvarasamīpataḥ ..
dvitīyāṃ tu tato gaccheddaityasūdanasannidhau .. 4 ..
Then one should go to goddess Umā near Someśvara;
then one should go to the second near Daityasūdana. / 4
16.44.44
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame pramāsakṣetramāhātmye someśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 44 ..
Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Someśvara, in the first [part], the Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsa section, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. / 44
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