[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.64 # Skandapurana 16.64 Skandapurāṇa 16.64 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.64.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.64.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tasyaiva pūrvadigbhāge dhanuṣāṃ paṃcake sthitam .. lakṣmīśvareti vikhyātaṃ dāridryaughavināśanam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: > In the eastern direction from that very \[place\], situated at a distance of five bows, > is the one known as Lakṣmīśvara, which destroys the flood of poverty, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.64.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.64.2) yatra devyā samānītā lakṣmīrdetyānnihatya ca .. tena lakṣmīśvaraṃ nāma svayaṃ devyā pratiṣṭhitam .. 2 .. > where Lakṣmī was brought by the Goddess after slaying the demons. > Therefore, it was named Lakṣmīśvara and established by the Goddess herself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.64.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.64.3) yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā śrīpaṃcamyāṃ vidhānataḥ .. na vimukto bhavellakṣmyā yāvanmanvataraṃ priye ..3.. > He who worships it with devotion according to the prescribed rule on the Śrīpañcamī > is not separated from Lakṣmī for a manvantara, O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.64.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.64.64) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye lakṣmīśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuḥṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 64 .... > Thus ends the sixty-fourth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Lakṣmīśvara,' in the first \[sub-section\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh \[section\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.64.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.64) · Pramāṇa