Skandapurana 16.63
Skandapurāṇa 16.63
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16.63.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi bhairaveśvaramuttamam ..
yogeśvaryā dakṣiṇato nātidūre vyavasthitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Next, O great goddess, one should go to the supreme Bhairaveśvara, / situated not far to the south of Yogeśvarī.
16.63.2
sarvapāpapraśamanaṃ dibyaiśvaryapradāyakam..
purā daityavināśārthaṃ yadā devī kṛtodyamā .. .. 2 ..
It mitigates all sins and bestows divine sovereign power.
Formerly, when the Goddess made an effort to destroy the demons,
16.63.3
tadā bhairavamāhūya dūtatve niyuyoja ha ..
śivadūtī tadā khyātā paścādyogeśvarīti ca .. 3 ..
then, having summoned Bhairava, she dispatched him as a messenger.
She was then known as Śivadūtī, and later as Yogeśvarī.
16.63.4
bhairavo yatra vai devyā dūtatve viniyojitaḥ ..
tena liṃgaṃ samākhyātaṃ bhairaveśvaranāmakam .. 4 ..
Because Bhairava was appointed to messendership by the Goddess there,
the liṅga is called by the name Bhairaveśvara.
16.63.5
pūjitaṃ devadaityaiśca bhairaveṇa pratiṣṭhitam ..
yastatpūjayate bhaktyā kārtikyāṃ vidhinā naraḥ ..
niraṃtaraṃ vā ṣaṇmāsaṃ so'bhīṣṭaṃ labhate phalam .. 5 ..
It was worshipped by gods and demons, and established by Bhairava.
The man who worships it with devotion according to rule on the full moon of Kārttika,
or continuously for six months, attains his desired fruit.
16.63.63
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye bhairaveśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma triṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāya .. 63 .. .. ..
Thus ends the sixty-third chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Bhairaveśvara,' in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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