Skandapurana 16.67
Skandapurāṇa 16.67
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16.67.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gachenmahāliṃgaṃ kāmeśvaramiti śrutam ..
kāmenārādhitaṃ pūrvaṃ daityasūdanapaścime .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Then one should go to the great liṅga known as Kāmeśvara,
previously worshipped by Kāma to the west of Daityasūdana.
16.67.2
dhanuṣāṃ saptake tatra sthitaṃ devi mahāprabham ..
nirdagdhastu yadā kāma stṛtīyenāgninā mama .. 2 ..
Situated there at a distance of seven bows, O goddess, it has great splendour.
When Kāma was burnt by my third fire,
16.67.3
tadā varṣasahasraṃ tu samārādhya maheśvaram ..
prapede kāmanāsargaṃ yatrānaṃgaḥ purā kila .. 3 ..
then, having propitiated Maheśvara for a thousand years,
the bodiless [Kāma] indeed formerly attained the realm of desire there.
16.67.4
tena kāmeśvaraṃnāma khyātaṃ liṃgaṃ dharātale ..
sarvapāpaharaṃ devi sarvakāmaphalapradam .. 4 ..
Therefore the liṅga became known as Kāmeśvara upon the earth;
it removes all sins, O goddess, and bestows the fruits of all desires.
16.67.5
trayodaśyāṃ vidhānena śuklāyāṃ māsi mādhave ..
saṃpūjya taṃ vidhānena sa strīṇāṃ kāmavadbhavet.. 5 ..
Having worshipped it according to rule on the thirteenth lunar day of the bright fortnight in the month of Mādhava,
he becomes like Kāma to women.
16.67.67
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasyā saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kāmeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma saptaṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ ..67..
Thus ends the sixty-seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Kāmeśvara,' in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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