Skandapurana 16.76
Skandapurāṇa 16.76
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16.76.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva devadevasya samīpasthaṃ virājate ..
liṃgadvayaṃ mahāpuṇyaṃ lakulīśapratiṣṭhitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Near that very god of gods there shines / a pair of highly sacred liṅgas established by Lakulīśa.
16.76.2
lakule śvaranāmāsti tasya liṃgadvayasya vai ..
taddṛṣṭvā devadevasya liṃgadvayamanuttamam .. 2 ..
Indeed, the name of that pair of liṅgas is Lakulīśvara. / Seeing that unexcelled pair of liṅgas of the god of gods,
16.76.3
mucyate sakalātpāpādājanmamaraṇāṃtikāt ..
tatra śuklacaturddaśyāṃ māsi bhādrapade priye .. 3 ..
one is freed from all sin from birth to the end of life. / There, on the bright fourteenth day of the month of Bhādrapada, O beloved,
16.76.4
upavāsaparo bhūtvā yaḥ karoti prajāgaram ..
mūrttimaṃtaṃ tu saṃpūjya lakulīśaṃ mahāprabham .. 4 ..
whoever devotes himself to fasting and keeps a vigil, / having worshipped the illustrious Lakulīśa in embodied form,
16.76.5
tataḥ saṃpūjya vidhinā tatra liṃgadvayaṃ pṛthak ..
samyakpūjāvidhānena stutimaṃtrairanukramāt ..
sa yāti paramaṃ sthānaṃ yatra devo maheśvaraḥ .. 5 ..
and then having duly worshipped the pair of liṅgas separately there / according to the proper ritual rules, with hymns of praise and mantras in order, / goes to the supreme abode where God Maheśvara resides.
16.76.76
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye someśvaramāhātmye kalakaleśvarasamīpavarti lakulīśaliṃgadvayamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṭsaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ..76..
Thus ends the seventy-sixth chapter, named “The Description of the Māhātmya of the Pair of Lakulīśa Liṅgas Situated Near Kalakaleśvara,” in the Someśvaramāhātmya, in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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