Skandapurana 16.53
Skandapurāṇa 16.53
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16.53.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi kapileśvaramuttamam..
tasyaiva pūrvadigbhāge nātidūre vyava sthitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Kapileśvara, / situated in its eastern quarter, not very far away, // 1
16.53.2
liṃgaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ tu darśanātpāpanāśanam ..
kapilonāma rājarṣiryatra taptvā mahātapaḥ .. 2 ..
a liṅga of great power that destroys sins upon darśana, / where the royal seer named Kapila, having performed great tapas, // 2
16.53.3
saṃprāptaḥ paramāṃ siddhiṃ pratiṣṭhāpya maheśvaram ..
devasāṃnidhyamīśānaṃ tasmim̐lliṃge sadā hariḥ .. 3 ..
attained the supreme perfection after installing Maheśvara. / The presence of the god, Īśāna, is always in that liṅga, [as is] Hari. // 3
16.53.4
śuklapakṣe caturdaśyāṃ sarvalokahitārthataḥ ..
saptakṛtvo mahādevaṃ someśaṃ kapileśvaram..
yaḥ paśyetprayato bhūtvā sa godānaphalaṃ labhet .. 4 ..
On the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight, for the benefit of all worlds, / he who, having become restrained, beholds Mahādeva, Someśa, [and] Kapileśvara seven times, obtains the fruit of gifting cows. // 4
16.53.5
tiladhenuṃ ca yo dadyāttasmiṃstīrthe samāhitaḥ ..
tilasaṃkhyāyugānyeva sa svarge vasati priye .. 5 ..
And he who, concentrated in mind, gives a cow made of sesame seeds at that sacred ford, / dwells in heaven, O beloved, for as many yugas as the number of sesame seeds. // 5
16.53.53
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kapileśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma tripañcāśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 53 ..
Thus ends the fifty-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Kapileśvara', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse compendium. // 53
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