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Skandapurana 16.73

Skandapurāṇa 16.73

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16.73.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi kumāreśvaramuttamam ..
liṃgaṃ mahāprabhāvaṃ hi mahāpātakanāśanam .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the excellent Kumāreśvara, / a liṅga of great power indeed, the destroyer of great sins.

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16.73.2

dhanuṣāṃ triṃśatā devi varuṇānnaiṛte sthitam ..
gaurītapovanāddevi dakṣiṇa sthānasaṃsthitam .. 2 ..

It is situated thirty bow-lengths to the southwest of Varuṇa, O goddess, / located in a spot to the south of Gaurī's penance-grove, O goddess.

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16.73.3

ṣaṇmukhena mahādevi tatra kṛtvā mahattapaḥ ..
pratiṣṭhitaṃ mahāliṃgaṃ kumāreśastato'bhavat .. 3 ..

By the Six-faced One, O great goddess, having performed great austerity there, / the great liṅga was installed; hence it became Kumāreśa.

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16.73.4

yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā māsamekaṃ nirantaram ..
ṣaṇmāsasyārcanenaiva yatpuṇyamupajāyate .. 4 ..

He who worships it with devotion continuously for one month— / whatever religious merit arises from worshipping for six months,

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16.73.5

tatpuṇyaṃ sakalaṃ tasya kumāreśārcanātsakṛt ..
labhate divasaikena vidhinā yadi pūjayet .. 5 ..

all that merit he obtains from a single worship of Kumāreśa / in one day, if he worships according to rule.

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16.73.6

kāmaṃ krodhaṃ tathā lobhaṃ rāgaṃ tyaktvā tu matsaram ..
brahmacārī yatirbhūtvā sakṛdapyenamarcayet .. 6 ..

Abandoning desire, anger, greed, attachment, and malice, / becoming a celibate student or ascetic, he should worship it even once.

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16.73.7

evaṃ saṃpūjite devi samyagyātrā phalaṃ labhet .. 7 ..

When it is worshipped thus, O goddess, he obtains the full fruit of the pilgrimage.

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16.73.73

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kumāreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃ nāma trisaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 73 ..

Thus ends the seventy-third chapter, named 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Kumāreśvara,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.

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