Skandapurana 16.77
Skandapurāṇa 16.77
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16.77.1
īśvara uvāca..
tato gacchenmahādevi uttaṃkeśvaramuttamam..
tasyaiva dakṣiṇe bhāge nātidūre vyavasthitam ..
sthāpitaṃ ca svayaṃ bhaktyā uttaṃkena mahātmanā .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the excellent Uttaṅkeśvara, / situated on the southern side of that very [shrine], not very far away, / and established personally with devotion by the high-souled Uttaṅka.
16.77.2
taddṛṣṭvā tu mahādevi spṛṣṭvā ca susamāhitaḥ ..
saṃpūjya vidhivadbhaktyā mucyate sarvakilbiṣāt .. 2 ..
Having seen it, O great goddess, and touched it with concentrated mind, / worshipping it with devotion according to rule, one is freed from all guilt.
16.77.77
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya uttaṃkeśvaramāhātmya varṇanaṃnāma saptasaptatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 77 .. .. ..
Thus ends the seventy-seventh chapter, named “The Description of the Māhātmya of Uttaṅkeśvara,” 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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