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(machine translation) ### [5.152.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.3) tataḥ sa cintayāmāsa rūpasaṃcayasaṃyutām .\] ekāmapsarasaṃ divyāṃ devamāyāṃ sṛjāmyaham .. . ..3.. > he then thought: 'I shall create a single divine apsaras, / possessed of an accumulation of beauty, a divine marvel.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.4) tataśca sarvadevānāṃ samādāya tilaṃtilam.. rūpaṃ ca nirmame paścādatyāścaryamayīṃ ca tām ..4.. > And then, taking a sesame-seed's measure of beauty from each of all the gods, / he fashioned her afterwards, filled with extraordinary wonder. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.5) yāṃ dṛṣṭvā kṣobhamāpannaḥ svayameva pitāmahaḥ ..5.. > Seeing her, the grandfather \[Brahmā\] himself became agitated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.6) tatastāṃ preṣayāmāsa kailāsaṃ prati padmajaḥ .. gaccha devi mahādevaṃ praṇamasva śucismite .. 6 .. > Then the Lotus-Born sent her to Kailāsa: / 'Go, O goddess, and bow down to Mahādeva, O fair-smiling one!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.7) tataḥ sā satvaraṃ gatvā kailāsaṃ parvatottamam .. apaśyacchaṃkaraṃ tatra nirviṣṭaṃ pārvatīsamam .. 7 .. > Then she went swiftly to Kailāsa, the excellent mountain, / and saw Śaṃkara seated there together with Pārvatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.9) śaṃkaro'pi ca tāṃ dṛṣṭvā vismayaṃ paramaṃ gataḥ .. sudṛṣṭāṃ nākarodbhītyā pārśvasthāṃ vīkṣya pārvatīm.. .. tataḥ pradakṣiṇāṃ cakre sā praṇamya maheśvaram . śraddhayā parayā yuktā kṛtāṃjalipuṭā sthitā ..9.. > Śaṃkara too, seeing her, was filled with supreme wonder. / Out of fear, beholding Pārvatī standing beside him, he did not look directly at her. / Then, bowing to Maheśvara, she circumambulated him, / filled with supreme faith, standing with palms joined in reverence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.10) yāvaddakṣiṇapārśvasthā tāvadvaktraṃ sa dakṣiṇam.. pracakāra mahādevastadupākṛṣṭalocanaḥ .. 6.153.10 .. > As far as she stood on his right side, so far Mahādeva, / his eyes drawn toward her, brought forth a right face. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.11) paścimāyāṃ yadā sā'bhūtpradakṣiṇavaśācchubhā .. paścimaṃ vadanaṃ tena tadarthaṃ ca kṛtaṃ tataḥ ..11.. > When, by the course of circumambulation, the auspicious woman reached the west, / he then produced a western face for her sake. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.12) evamuttarasaṃsthāyāṃ tasyāṃ devena śaṃbhunā .. uttaraṃ vadanaṃ klṛptaṃ gaurībhītena cetasā .. na grīvāṃ cālayāmāsa kathaṃcidapi sa dvijāḥ ..12.. > In this way, when she stood on the north, a northern face was fashioned / by the god Śambhu, whose heart was fearful of Gaurī. / O twice-born ones, he did not turn his neck in any way! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.13) etasminnaṃtare tatra nārado munipuṃgavaḥ.. abravītpārvatīṃ paścātpraṇipatya maheśvaram .. 13 .. > Meanwhile, the eminent sage Nārada, / having bowed down to Maheśvara, then spoke to Pārvatī: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.14) .. nārada uvāca .. .. paśya pārvati te patyuśceṣṭitaṃ garhitaṃ yathā .. dṛṣṭvā rūpavatīṃ nārīṃ kṛtaṃ. mukhacatuṣṭayam .. 14 .. > Nārada said: / 'See, O Pārvatī, how contemptible is your husband's conduct! / Seeing a beautiful woman, he has made four faces! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.19) ahametadvijānāmi na tvayā sadṛśī kvacit .. asti nārī tathā'nyopi vijānāti sureśvari .. 19 .. > I know this: nowhere is there / a woman equal to you; and everyone else knows it too, O mistress of the gods! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.19\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.19_1) hāsyasya padavīmadya tvaṃ gamiṣyasi pārvati .. sarvāsāṃ devapatnīnāṃ jñātvānyāsaktamīśvaram .. 16 .. > Today you will become an object of ridicule, O Pārvatī, / to all the wives of the gods, knowing Īśvara is attached to another woman! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.19\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.19_2) etaddevi vijānāsi yādṛkcittaṃ śivodbhavam .. asyā upari veśyāyā niṃditāyā vicakṣaṇaiḥ .. 17 .. > O goddess, you know what kind of heart belongs to Śiva / toward this courtesan, who is censured by the wise! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.19\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.19_3) samādāya nije harmya etāṃ saṃsthāpayiṣyati .. paraṃ lajjāsamopeto na bravīti vacaḥ śubhe .. 18 . .. .. sūta uvāca .. .. nāradasya vacaḥ śrutvā dṛṣṭvā kāṃtaṃ caturmukham .. krodhena mahatāviṣṭā vikṛtaṃ vīkṣya taṃ haram .. 19 .. > Taking her, he will install her in his own palace; / but filled with shame, he utters no word, O auspicious one!' / Sūta said: / Hearing Nārada's words and seeing her husband with four faces, / beholding that altered Hara, she was seized with great wrath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.20) tato nirodhayā māsa drutaṃ sā parvatātmajā .. sarvanetrāṇi devasya mahiṣīdharmamāśritā .. 6.153.20 .. > Then, relying on the duty of a chief queen, that daughter of the mountain / quickly covered all the eyes of the god. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.21) etasminnaṃtare śailā viśīryaṃti samaṃtataḥ .. maryādāṃ saṃtyajaṃti sma sarve ca makarālayāḥ .. 21 .. > At that moment, mountains crumbled on all sides, / and all the oceans transgressed their boundaries. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.22) pralayasya samutthānaṃ saṃjātaṃ dvijasattamāḥ .. tāvadbrahmadinaṃ prāptaṃ paramaṃ sṛṣṭilakṣaṇam .. 22 .. > The onset of universal dissolution arose, O best of the twice-born! / Meanwhile, the day of Brahmā arrived, whose supreme mark is creation; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.23) nimeṣeṇa punastasya pralayasya prajāpateḥ .. brahmaṇaḥ sā niśā proktā sarvaṃ toyamayaṃ bhavet .. 23 .. > Yet, in a twinkling, the dissolution of that Prajāpati \[came again\]; / that is called the night of Brahmā, when everything becomes watery. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.24) atha tatra gaṇāḥ sarve bhṛginaṃdipuraḥsarāḥ .. so'pi devamunirbhītastāmuvāca sureśvarīm .. 24 .. > Then all the gaṇas there, headed by Bhṛgin and Nandin, / and even that divine sage, terrified, spoke to the mistress of the gods: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.25) muṃcamuṃca surajyeṣṭhe devanetrāṇi saṃprati .. nocennāśaḥ samastasya lokasyāsya bhaviṣyati .. 25 .. > 'Release, release right now the god's eyes, O eldest among the gods! / Otherwise, the destruction of this entire world will occur!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.26) evaṃ proktā'pi sā devī yāvacca na mumoca tam .. tāvaddevena lālāṭaṃ visṛṣṭaṃ locanaṃ param.. 26 .. > Even though addressed in this way, so long as that goddess did not release him, / the god sent forth a supreme eye on his forehead, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.27) kṛpāviṣṭena lokānāṃ yena rakṣā prajāyate .. na śakto vārituṃ devīṃ prāṇebhyo'pi garīyasīm .. 27 .. > filled with compassion for the worlds, by which protection came to be. / He was unable to restrain the goddess, who was dearer to him than his own breaths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.28) aṃbikāṃ vibudhāḥ prāhustryaṃbakāṇi yato dvijāḥ .. tasmātsaṃkīrtyate loke tryaṃbakaśca sureśvaraḥ .. 28 .. > The wise call the eyes "ambaka", O twice-born ones; / therefore, because he has three ambakas, the lord of the gods is celebrated in the world as Tryambaka. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.29) tataḥ saṃtyajya taṃ devaṃ devī parvataputrikā .. provāca koparaktākṣī puraḥsthāṃ tāṃ tilottamām .. 29 .. > Then, releasing that god, the goddess, daughter of the mountain, / her eyes red with anger, spoke to Tilottamā standing before her: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.30) yasmānme dayitaḥ pāpe tvayā rūpādviḍaṃbitaḥ .. caturvaktraḥ kṛtastasmāttvaṃ virūpā bhava drutam .. 6.153.30 .. > 'Since my beloved was captivated by your beauty, O wretched woman, / and made four-faced, therefore quickly become deformed!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.31) tataḥ sā sahasā bhūtvā tatkṣaṇādbhagnanāsikā .. śīrṇakeśā bṛhaddaṃtā cipiṭākṣī mahodarā .. 31 .. > Then, instantly, she suddenly became broken-nosed, / with disheveled hair, large teeth, flat eyes, and a swollen belly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.32) atha vīkṣya nijaṃ dehaṃ tathābhūtaṃ varāpsarāḥ .. provāca vepamānā sā kṛtāṃjalipuṭā sthitā .. 32 .. > Then, seeing her own body turned into such a state, the excellent apsaras, / trembling, stood with palms joined in reverence and spoke: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.33) ahaṃ saṃpreṣitā devi praṇāmārthaṃ triśūlinaḥ .. brahmaṇā tena cāyātā yuṣmākaṃ ca viśeṣataḥ .. 33 .. > 'I was sent by Brahmā, O goddess, to bow down to the trident-bearer, / and especially to you both, and so I came. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.34) nirdoṣāyā virāgāyāstasmādyuktaṃ na te bhavet .. śāpaṃ dātuṃ prasādaṃ me tasmāttvaṃ kartumarhasi .. 34 .. > Therefore, toward me who am faultless and free from passion, it is not proper for you / to give a curse; therefore, you ought to show me grace.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.35) tasyāstadvacanaṃ śrutvā dīnaṃ satyaṃ ca pārvatī .. paścāttāpasamopetā tataḥ provāca supriyam .. 35 .. > Hearing her words, which were piteous and true, Pārvatī, / filled with repentance, then spoke very kindly: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.36) strīsvabhāvātsamāyātaḥ kopo'yaṃ tvāṃ prati drutam .. tasmādāgaccha gacchāvo mayā sārdhaṃ dharātale .. 36 .. > 'Out of a woman's nature, this anger suddenly came upon me toward you; / therefore come, let the two of us go together to the surface of the earth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.37) tatrāsti rūpadaṃ tīrthaṃ mayā cotpāditaṃ svayam .. māghaśuklatṛtīyāyāṃ snānārthaṃ vimalodakam .. 37 .. > There is a beauty-giving sacred ford, created by me myself, / with clear water, for bathing on the third day of the bright half of Māgha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.38) yā nārī prātarutthāya tatra snānaṃ samācaret .. sā syādrūpavatī nūnamadṛṣṭe ravimaṃḍale .. 38 .. > Whatever woman, rising at dawn before the sun's orb is seen, / performs a ritual ablution there, she will surely become beautiful. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.39) sadā māghe tṛtīyāyāṃ tatra snānaṃ karomyaham .. adya sā tatra yāsyāmi snānāya kṛtaniścayā .. 39 .. .. > I always perform a ritual ablution there on the third day of Māgha; / today, with resolved mind, I shall go there for a ritual ablution.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.40) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evamuktvā samādāya sā devī tāṃ tilottamām .. hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre rūpatīrthaṃ jagāma ca .. 6.153.40 .. > Sūta said: / Having spoken thus, that goddess, taking Tilottamā, / went to the Rūpatīrtha in the sacred field born of Hāṭakeśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.41) tatra snānaṃ svayaṃ cakre vidhipūrvaṃ sureśvarī .. tasyā hyanantaraṃ sāpi bhaktiyuktā tilottamā .. 41 .. > There, the mistress of the gods herself performed the ritual ablution according to the rules; / and immediately after her, Tilottamā also, endowed with devotion, \[did so\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.42) tataḥ kāṃtimatī jātā tatkṣaṇādeva bhāminī .. pūrvamāsīyadthārūpā tathāsā'bhūdviśeṣataḥ .. 42 .. > Then that beautiful woman instantly became radiant with beauty; / just as she was previously, so she became, and even more so. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.43) atha tuṣṭisamāyuktā tāṃ praṇamya sureśvarīm .. provāca vismayāviṣṭā harṣagadgadayā girā.. 43 .. > Then, filled with satisfaction, bowing to that mistress of the gods, / she spoke, seized with wonder, in a voice faltering with joy: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.44) prāptaṃ rūpaṃ mahādevi tvatprasādāccirantanam.. brahmalokaṃ gamiṣyāmi māmanujñātumarhasi .. 44 .. > 'My former beauty has been regained by your grace, O great goddess! / I shall go to the world of Brahmā; you should grant me permission.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.45) .. gauryuvāca .. .. varaṃ yacchāmi te putri yatkiṃciddhṛdi saṃsthitam.. tasmātprārthaya viśrabdhā na vṛthā mama darśanam .. 45 .. > Gaurī said: / 'I grant you a boon, O daughter, whatever rests in your heart; / therefore ask with confidence; darśana of me is never in vain.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.46) .. tilottamovāca .. .. ahamatra kariṣyāmi kṣetre tīrthaṃ nijaṃ śubhe .. tvatprasādena taddevi yātu khyātiṃ dharātale .. 46 .. > Tilottamā said: / 'I shall make my own sacred ford here in this sacred field, O auspicious one; / by your grace, O goddess, let it attain fame on the surface of the earth! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.47) tvayā tatrāpi kartavyaṃ varṣāṃte snānameva hi .. hitārthaṃ sarvanārīṇāṃ rūpasaubhāgyadāyakam .. 47 .. .. > You too must perform a ritual ablution there at the end of the year, / granting beauty and good fortune, for the benefit of all women.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.48) .. gauryuvāca .. .. caitraśuklatṛtīyāyāṃ sadāhaṃ tvatkṛte śubhe .. snānaṃ tatra kariṣyāmi madhyāhne samupasthite .. 48 .. > Gaurī said: / 'On the third day of the bright half of Caitra, for your sake, O auspicious one, / I will always perform a ritual ablution there when midday arrives, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.49) hitārthaṃ sarvanārīṇāṃ tava vākyādasaṃśayam .. yā tatra divase nārī tasmiṃstīrthe kariṣyati .. 49 .. > undoubtedly for the benefit of all women, according to your word. / Whatever woman, on that day, performs \[an ablution\] in that sacred ford,' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.50) snānaṃ sā saukhyasaṃyuktā bhaviṣyati sukhānvitā .. spṛhaṇīyā ca nārīṇāṃ sarvāsāṃ dharaṇītale .. 6.153.50 .. > ritual ablution, she will be endowed with well-being and filled with happiness, / and will be an object of envy for all women on the face of the earth. // 6.153.50 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.51) puruṣo'pi subhaktyā yastatra snānaṃ kariṣyati .. saptajanmāni rūpāḍhyaḥ sasaubhāgyo bhaviṣyati .. 51 .. > Even a man who performs ritual ablution there with true devotion / will be endowed with beauty and good fortune for seven births. // 51 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.52) sūta uvāca .. .. evamuktā tadā devyā sāpsarā dvijasattamāḥ .. cakre kuṇḍaṃ suvistīrṇaṃ vimalodaprapūritam.. 52 .. > Sūta said: / Thus addressed by the goddess then, O best of the twice-born, / that apsaras made a very extensive pool filled with pure water. // 52 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.53) upakaṃṭhe tatastasya sthāpayāmāsa pārvatīm .. tato jagāma saṃhṛṣṭā brahmalokaṃ tilottamā .. 53 .. > Near its edge she then installed Pārvatī. / Thereupon Tilottamā, greatly delighted, went to the world of Brahmā. // 53 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.54) tataḥ prabhṛti saṃjātaṃ kuṇḍamapsarasā kṛtam .. snānamātrairnarairyatra saubhāgyaṃ labhyate dvijāḥ .. 54 .. > From that time forward, that pool made by the apsaras came into being, / where by mere ablutions men obtain good fortune, O twice-born. // 54 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.55) nārībhiśca viśeṣeṇa putraprāptiranuttamā .. tathānyadapi yatkiṃcidvāṃchitaṃ hṛdaye sthitam .. 55 .. > And women, in particular, obtain the supreme attainment of sons, / as well as whatever other desire is held in their hearts. // 55 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.152.153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.152.153) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe śrīhāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye'psaraḥkuṇḍotpattimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma tripaṃcāśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 153 .. > Thus ends the one hundred and fifty-third chapter, entitled 'Description of the Origin and Māhātmya of the Pool of the Apsaras' in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Śrī Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[book\] in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 153 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.152.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: 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