[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) › 16.74 # Skandapurana 16.74 Skandapurāṇa 16.74 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.74.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi śākalyeśvaramuttamam .. daityasūdanavāyavye dhanuṣāṃ triṃśatā sthitam .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the excellent Śākalyeśvara, / situated thirty bow-lengths to the northwest of Daityasūdana. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.2) śākalyena mahādevi pūjitaṃ sarvakāmadam.. śākalyonāma rājarṣiryatra taptvā mahattapaḥ ..2.. > It was worshipped by Śākalya, O great goddess, granting all desires; / where the royal sage named Śākalya, having performed great austerity, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.3) samārādhya mahādevaṃ pratyakṣīkṛtavānbhavam .. liṃge'vatārayāmāsa prasannaṃ taṃ maheśvaram .. 3 .. > and having propitiated Mahādeva, brought Bhava before his eyes; / he caused that pleased Maheśvara to descend into the liṅga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.4) tasmindṛṣṭe varārohe saptajanmakṛtaṃ nṛṇām .. pāpaṃ praṇaśyate śīghraṃ tamaḥ sūryodaye yathā .. 4 .. > When it is seen, O fair-hipped one, the sin committed by men during seven births / quickly perishes, like darkness at the rising of the sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.5) tatrāṣṭamyāṃ caturddaśyāṃ snāpayetpayasā śivam .. pūjayecca vidhānena gandhapuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt .. 5 .. > There, on the eighth and fourteenth lunar days, one should bathe Śiva with milk, / and worship him according to rule with perfumes, flowers, and other offerings in due order. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.6) hiraṇyaṃ tatra dātavyaṃ samyagyātrāphalepsubhiḥ .. catvāri tasya nāmāni kathyamānāni me śṛṇu .. 6 .. > Gold should be given there by those desiring the full fruit of the pilgrimage. / Hear from me its four names as they are being told: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.7) ādau kṛtayuge devi kīrtito bhairaveśvaraḥ .. tataḥ sāvarṇimanunā samyagārādhitaḥ priye .. 7 .. > First, in the Kṛta age, O goddess, it was celebrated as Bhairaveśvara. / Then it was properly worshipped by the Manu Sāvarṇi, O dear one; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.8) sāvarṇikeśvaraṃ nāma tretāyāṃ tasya saṃjñitam .. tatastu dvāpare devi gālavena mahātmanā .. samyagārādhitastatra liṃgarūpīvṛṣadhvajaḥ .. 8 .. > in the Tretā age, it was designated by the name Sāvarṇikeśvara. / Then, in the Dvāpara age, O goddess, by the noble Gālava / the Bull-bannered One was worshipped properly there in the form of a liṅga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.9) tṛtīyaṃ tasya devasya gālaveśvarasaṃjñitam .. kalau yuge tu saṃprāpte śākalyonāma vai muniḥ .. 9 .. > The third \[name\] of that god was designated as Gālaveśvara. / But when the Kali age arrived, indeed a sage named Śākalya \[came\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.10) yatra siddhimanuprāpta aiśvaryaṃ cāṇimādikam.. śākalyeśvaranāmeti tataḥ khyātaṃ turīyakam .. 7.1.74.10 .. > wherein he attained perfection and sovereignty, such as the power of atomicity; / hence its fourth \[name\] became known by the name Śākalyeśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.11) evaṃ cāturyugaṃ nāma tasya liṃgasya kīrtitam .. pāpaghnaṃ puṇyadaṃ nṝṇāṃ kīrttitaṃ sarvakāmadam .. 11 .. > Thus the name in the four ages of that liṅga has been proclaimed; / it destroys sin, grants religious merit to men, and is proclaimed to bestow all desires. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.12) tasyaiva devadevasya kṣetrotpattiṃ śṛṇu priye .. 12 .. > Hear, O beloved, the origin of the field of that very god of gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.13) aṣṭādaśadhanurdevi samaṃtātparimaṇḍalam .. mahāpāpaharaṃ devi tatra kṣetranivāsinām.. 13 .. > Its circumference is eighteen bow-lengths all around, O goddess; / it removes great sins, O goddess, for those who dwell in that field. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.14) kṛmikīṭapataṃgānāṃ tiraścāmapi mokṣadam .. yatra kūpāditoyeṣu jalaṃ sārasvataṃ smṛtam .. 14 .. > It grants liberation even to worms, insects, winged creatures, and animals. / The water in the wells and other \[reservoirs\] there is considered sārasvata. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.15) yatra tatra naraḥ snātvā svargaloke mahīyate .. aśvamedhasahasrasya vājapeyaśatasya ca .. 15 .. > Bathing wherever he may there, a man is glorified in the heavenly world. / The fruit of a thousand horse-sacrifices and a hundred Vājapeya sacrifices— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.16) tatphalaṃ samavāpnoti tasya liṃgasya darśanāt .. somaparvaṇi saṃprāpte yastatra śucirātmavān .. 16 .. > that fruit he fully obtains from the darśana of that liṅga. / When the lunar festival arrives, he who is pure and self-controlled there, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.17) aghoraṃ ca japetsamyagājyahomasamanvitam .. talliṃgasya samīpastho yāvanmāsāvadhiḥ priye .. 17 .. > and properly recites the Aghora \[mantra\] accompanied by burnt offerings of clarified butter, / remaining near that liṅga until the period of a month is fulfilled, O dear one, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.18) mahāpātakayukto'pi yukto vā'pyupapātakaiḥ .. sa sarvāṃ labhate siddhimuttamāṃ varavarṇini .. 18 .. > even though possessed of great sins or tainted with secondary sins, / he attains all supreme perfection, O woman of excellent complexion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.19) kāmikaṃ tatsmṛtaṃ liṃgaṃ sarvakāmaphalapradam .. aghora vaktraṃ devasya tatrasthaṃ bhairavaṃ mahat.. 19 .. > That liṅga is remembered as fulfilling desires, granting the fruit of all wishes; / the face of the god situated there is the great Aghora, the terrifying one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.74.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74.74) bhairaveśvaranāmeti pūrvaṃ khyātamabhūdbhuvi .. asminyuge tu saṃprāpte śākalyeśvaranāmakam ..7.1.74.20.. iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye śākalyeśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuḥsaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. .. 74 .. .. dha .. > Formerly on earth it was known by the name Bhairaveśvara; / but when this age arrived, it became named Śākalyeśvara. / Thus ends the seventy-fourth chapter, named 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Śākalyeśvara,' in the first \[part\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh \[section\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.74.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.74) · Pramāṇa