Skanda Purana 4.101.15
Skandapurāṇa 4.101.15
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4.101.15
13 jagatprāṇasya pavanasya gaṃdhavatīpurīvarṇanam, kaśyapaputrasya pūtātmanaḥ śrīkāśīkṣetre liṃgaṃ saṃsthāpya tapaścaraṇam, tasya śivāllokapālatvaprāptikathanam, guhyakeśvarasyālakāvatīpurīvarṇanam, kāmpilyanagare yajñadattanāmno brāhmaṇasya nāmnā guṇaṃnidhirapyaguṇanidhirdyutāsakto madyapaḥ putro babhūva tasya mātrā bahukālaṃ pracchannadurācārasya sutasya duṣkṛtiṃ saṃpaśyatā pitrā svagṛhānniṣkāsanam, svārthaṃ dīpadaśodyotena liṃgamaulitamoharasya bahūpoṣitasyāsya śivarātryāṃ śivālaye 'nnāpaharaṇādghātitasya kaliṅgadeśarājaputratvaprāptivarṇanam, tatra tasya śivālayeṣu dīpadānātkalpāntare viśravaḥsutatvamabhigabhya duḥsahatapaścaraṇataḥ śivasakhyālakārājyādilā-
bhavarṇanaṃ ca-. .. .. ... .. .. 61
13 Description of Gandhavatī, the city of Pavana [Wind], the life-breath of the world; the pure-souled son of Kaśyapa installing a liṅga in the sacred field of Kāśī and practicing austerity; narration of his attainment of the status of a world-guardian from Śiva; description of Alakāvatī, the city of the lord of Guhyakas [Kubera]; in the city of Kāmpilya, a brahmin named Yajñadatta had a son named Guṇanidhi, who, though named Guṇanidhi ('treasury of virtues'), was a treasury of vices, addicted to gambling and a drinker of liquor; his expulsion from his own house by his father who noticed the misdeeds of his son, whose wicked conduct had long been concealed by his mother; description of his obtaining the state of a prince of Kaliṅga after being killed for stealing food in a Śiva temple on Śivarātri, having fasted for many [days] and having removed the darkness over the top of the liṅga for his own purpose by brightening the wick of a lamp; and description of his attaining the status of the son of Viśravas in another kalpa, and obtaining the friendship of Śiva, kingship over Alakā, and other [rewards] through the performance of unbearable austerity, owing to the donation of lamps in Śiva temples there: 61.
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