[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) › 5.174 # Skandapurana 5.174 Skandapurāṇa 5.174 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.174.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evaṃ saṃśocate yāvadātmānaṃ parigarhayan.. tatastu brahmaṇā proktaḥ svayamabhyetya bho dvijāḥ..1.. > Sūta said: / While he was grieving thus, severely reproaching himself, / Brahmā came in person and spoke to him, O twice-born! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.2) tvayā śaṃkā na kartavyā sutasyāsya kṛte dvija.. ajñānādeva te jāto daivayogena bālakaḥ..2.. > "You should not have any doubt on account of this son, O twice-born! / Through ignorance alone was this boy born to you, by the working of fate. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.3) ..yājñavalkya uvāca.. .. tathāpi deva me śuddhirhṛdayasya na jāyate .. tasmādvada suraśreṣṭha prāyaścittaṃ viśuddhaye..3.. > Yājñavalkya said: / Even so, O Lord, purification does not arise in my heart. / Therefore, O foremost of gods, declare an expiation for complete purification." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.4) .. brahmovāca.. .. yadi te cittaśuddhistu na kathaṃcitpravartate.. tatsthāpaya mahābhāga liṃgaṃ devasya śūlinaḥ .. 4 .. > Brahmā said: / "If purification of your heart does not occur in any way, / then, O highly fortunate one, install a liṅga of the trident-bearing god. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.5) ajñānājjñānatovāpi yatpāpaṃ kurute naraḥ .. brahmahatyādikaṃ cāpi strīvadhādvāpi yadbhavet..5 .. > Whatever sin a man commits out of ignorance or even knowingly, / such as the murder of a brahmin, or whatever may arise from killing a woman— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.6) paṃceṣṭikāmayaṃ vāpi yaḥ kuryāddharamandiram.. tasya tannāśamāyāti tamaḥ sūryodaye yathā .. 6 .. > whoever builds a temple for Hara, even of five bricks, / that \[sin\] of his goes to destruction, like darkness at sunrise; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.7) viśeṣeṇa mahābhāga hāṭakeśvarasaṃbhave .. kṣetre tatra sumedhye tu sarvapātakanāśane .. 7 .. > especially, O highly fortunate one, in that very holy sacred field, the source of Hāṭakeśvara, / which destroys all sins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.8) kalikāle ca saṃprāpte yatra pāpaṃ na vidyate .. ahamapyatra vāṃchāmi yajñaṃ kartuṃ dvijottama .. 8 .. > Where no sin exists even when the Kali age has arrived; / I too desire to perform a sacrifice there, O best of the twice-born! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.9) ānayiṣyāmi tattīrthaṃ puṣkaraṃ cātmanaḥ priyam .. kalikālabhayāccaitadyāvanno vyarthatāṃ vrajet .. 9 .. > I shall bring that sacred ford, Puṣkara, which is dear to me, / lest it go to ruin out of fear of the Kali age. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.10) kalikāle tu saṃprāpte tīrthāni sakalāni ca .. yāsyaṃti vyarthatāṃ vipra muktvedaṃ kṣetramuttamam .. 6.175.10 .. > When the Kali age has arrived, all sacred fords / will go to ruin, O brahmin, except for this supreme sacred field." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.11) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evamuktvā caturvaktrastataścādarśanaṃ gataḥ .. yājñavalkyo'pi tacchrutvā pitāmahavaco' khilam .. 11 .. > Sūta said: / Having spoken thus, the four-faced one then vanished from sight. / Yājñavalkya too, hearing all the words of the Grandfather, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.12) liṃgaṃ saṃsthāpayāmāsa jñātvā kṣetramanuttamam.. abravīcca tato vākyaṃ meghagaṃbhīrayā girā .. 12 .. > installed a liṅga, knowing that unexcelled sacred field, / and then spoke these words with a voice deep as a thundercloud: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.13) aṣṭamyāṃ ca caturdaśyāṃ yo liṃgaṃ māmakaṃ tvidam .. snāpayiṣyati sadbhaktyā tasya pāpaṃ prayāsyati .. 13 .. > "Whoever bathes this liṅga of mine with true devotion / on the eighth and the fourteenth \[lunar day\], his sin shall depart. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.14) paradārakṛtaṃ yacca mātrāpi ca samaṃ kṛtam.. kṣālayiṣyati tatpāpaṃ snāpitaṃ pūjitaṃ paraiḥ .. 14 .. > Whatever \[sin\] was committed with another's wife, or even committed with one's mother, / \[this liṅga,\] bathed and worshipped by others, shall wash away that sin. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.15) asminnahani saṃprāpte tasya pakṣasamudbhavam .. prayāsyati kṛtaṃ pāpaṃ yadajñānādvinirmitam .. 15 .. > When this day arrives, the sin born of that fortnight / which was committed out of ignorance shall depart from him." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.16) tataḥprabhṛti vikhyāto yājñava lkyeśvaraḥ śubhaḥ .. tasminkṣetre dvijaśreṣṭhā hāṭakeśvarasaṃjñake .. 16 .. > From then on, O best of the twice-born, the auspicious Yājñavalkyeśvara / became famous in that sacred field named Hāṭakeśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.174.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174.175) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye yājñavalkyeśvarotpattimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma paṃcasaptatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 175 .. > Thus ends the one hundred seventy-fifth chapter, entitled "Description of the Origin and Māhātmya of Yājñavalkyeśvara," in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[section\], in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.174.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.174) · Pramāṇa