[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) › 16.70 # Skandapurana 16.70 Skandapurāṇa 16.70 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.70.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi varuṇeśvaramuttamam .. gaurītapovanāgneyyāṃ dhanuṣāṃ viṃśatau sthitam .. liṃgaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ hi varuṇena pratiṣṭhitam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / ‘Then one should go, O Great Goddess, to the excellent Varuṇeśvara, / situated twenty bow-lengths southeast of Gaurī’s penance grove, / a liṅga of great power indeed, installed by Varuṇa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.2) pūrvaṃ pīto yadā devi samudraḥ kumbhajanmanā .. tadā kopena santapto varuṇaḥ saritāṃ patiḥ .. 2 .. > Formerly, O goddess, when the ocean was drunk by the pot-born \[Agastya\], / then Varuṇa, the lord of rivers, was afflicted with wrath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.3) kāmikaṃ tu samājñāya kṣetraṃ prābhāsikaṃ tadā .. tatrātapaddevi tapaḥ sa vai paramaduścaram .. 3 .. > Recognizing the sacred field of Prabhāsa as fulfilling all desires, / he then performed most difficult austerity there, O goddess. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.4) pratiṣṭhāpya mahāliṃgaṃ saṃpūjayati bhaktitaḥ .. varṣāṇāmayutaṃ sāgraṃ pūjito vṛṣabhadhvajaḥ .. 4 .. > Having installed the great liṅga, he worshipped it with devotion; / for more than ten thousand years the bull-bannered \[Śiva\] was worshipped. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.5) tataḥ prasanno deveśi nijagaṃgājalena tu .. pūrayāmāsa taṃ riktaṃ samudraṃ yādasāṃpatim .. 5 .. > Then, being pleased, O ruler of gods, with the waters of his own Gaṅgā, / he filled that empty ocean, the lord of aquatic creatures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.6) chaṃdayāmāsa taṃ liṃgaṃ varadānairanekadhā .. tatprabhṛtyeva te sarve samudrāḥ paripūritāḥ .. 6 .. > He gratified that liṅga with many boons; / from that time onward, all those oceans were completely filled. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.7) varuṇeśvaranāmeti talliṃgaṃ tatprabhṛtyabhūt .. 7 .. > From that time forward, that liṅga came to be known by the name Varuṇeśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.8) ko hyartho bahubhirliṃgairdṛṣṭairvā surasundari .. varuṇeśena dṛṣṭena sarvatīrthaphalaṃ labhet .. 8 .. > For what need is there of many liṅgas seen, O beautiful lady among the gods? / When Varuṇeśa is seen, one obtains the fruit of all sacred fords. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.9) aṣṭamyāṃ ca caturdaśyāṃ taddadhnā snāpayedyadi .. sa brāhmaṇaścaturvedo jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 9 .. > If on the eighth or fourteenth \[lunar day\] one bathes it with curd, / he is born as a brahmin knowing the four Vedas, there is no doubt here. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.10) brāhmaṇāḥ kṣatriyā vaiśyāḥ śūdrāścānye varānane .. mūkāṃdhabadhirā bālāḥ striyaścaiva napuṃsakāḥ .. 7.1.70.10 .. > Brahmins, kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, śūdras, and others, O lovely-faced one— / the mute, the blind, the deaf, children, women, and eunuchs— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.11) dṛṣṭvā gacchaṃti te devi svargaṃ dharmaparāyaṇāḥ .. snānaṃ jāpyaṃ baliṃ homaṃ pūjāṃ stotraṃ ca nartanam .. tasminsthāne tu yaḥ kuryāttatsarvaṃ cākṣayaṃ bhavet .. 11 .. > having seen it, devoted to righteousness, they go to heaven, O goddess. / Bathing, chanting, sacrificial offering, oblations into fire, worship, praise, and dancing / that one performs in that place—all that becomes imperishable. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.12) haimaṃ padmaṃ mauktikaṃ ca dānaṃ tatraiva dāpayet .. samyagyātrāphalāpekṣī svargāpekṣī tathā naraḥ .. 12 .. > One should offer a golden lotus and a pearl as gifts in that very place, / a person desiring the full fruit of pilgrimage as well as heaven.’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.70.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70.70) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye varuṇeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. .. 70 .. > Thus ends the seventieth chapter, named ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Varuṇeśvara,’ in the first \[sub-section\], Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.70.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.70) · Pramāṇa