[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) › 5.175 # Skandapurana 5.175 Skandapurāṇa 5.175 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.175.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. dṛṣṭvā pratiṣṭhitaṃ liṃgaṃ yājñavalkyena dhīmatā .. svamātuḥ śuddhihetoḥ sa tannāmnā liṃgamuttamam .. 1 .. > Sūta said: / Having seen the liṅga consecrated by the wise Yājñavalkya, / he, for the sake of his mother's purification, \[installed\] an excellent liṅga in her name. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.3) sthāpayāmāsa vipreṃdrāḥ śraddhayā parayā yutaḥ .. tataścānīya vipreṃdraṃ madhyagaṃ nāgarodbhavam .. .. gartātīrthasamudbhūtamāhitāgniṃ prayājinam .. yathaitannagarasthānaṃ tathā tvamapi dīkṣitaḥ .. 3 .. > Filled with supreme faith, he installed \[it\], O best of brahmins! / And then, having brought a leader of brahmins, an inhabitant of the middle region, born among the Nāgaras, / born at Gartātīrtha, an Āhitāgni, an officiating priest, \[he said:\] / 'Just as this is a city-settlement, so you too are an initiated \[priest\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.4) aṣṭaṣaṣṭiṣu gotrāṇāṃ nāyakatve vyavasthitaḥ .. tava vākyena sarvāṇi gotrāṇi dvijasattama .. 4 .. > Established in the leadership among the sixty-eight gotras, / by your word, O best of the twice-born, all gotras > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.5) vartayiṣyaṃti kṛtyeṣu yāvaccandrārkatārakāḥ .. govardhana tvayā ciṃtā kāryā cāsya samudbhavā .. 5 .. > shall carry out their rites as long as the moon, sun, and stars endure. / O Govardhana, care regarding this must be taken by you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.6) liṃgasya pūjanārthāya preraṇīyāśca nāgarāḥ.. pūjayā tasya liṃgasya vṛddhiṃ yāsyati te'nvayaḥ .. 6 .. > The Nāgaras are to be prompted to worship the liṅga. / Through worship of that liṅga your lineage will increase. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.7) apūjayā vināśaṃ ca yāsyatyatra na saṃśayaḥ .. tava vaṃśodbhavā ye ca pūjayitvā prabhaktitaḥ .. 7 .. > Through non-worship it will go to destruction; there is no doubt about this. / And those born of your lineage who, having worshipped with intense devotion, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.8) etalliṃgaṃ kariṣyaṃti kṛtyāni vividhānica .. tāni siddhiṃ prayāsyaṃti prasādādasya dīkṣita .. 8 .. > this liṅga, will perform various rites— / those \[rites\] will attain success by its grace, O initiated one!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.9) .. govardhana uvāca .. .. ahamarcāṃ kariṣyāmi liṃgasyāsya sadā dvija .. bhaktiṃ ca prakariṣyāmi hetorasya hetorasya kṛte dvija .. pūjārthaṃ caiva ye cānye mama vaṃśasamudravāḥ .. 9 .. > Govardhana said: / "I shall always perform the worship of this liṅga, O twice-born! / And I shall display devotion on this account, on this account, O twice-born, / and also for the sake of worship, those others who are born in my lineage \[shall do so\]." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.10) .. pippalāda uvāca .. .. govardhana drutaṃ viprāṃstatra cānaya nāgarān.. teṣāṃ matena devasya nāmamātraṃ karomyaham .. 6.176.10 .. > Pippalāda said: / "O Govardhana, quickly bring the N競争gara brahmins here; / according to their opinion, I shall confer the name upon the god." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.11) tataścānāyayāmāsa viprāṃścaiva vicakṣaṇān .. śrutādhyayanasaṃpannānyajñakarmaparāyaṇān .. 11 .. > Thereupon he caused the wise brahmins to be brought, / endowed with learning in the sacred scriptures and devoted to sacrificial rites. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.12) tānabravītpraṇamyoccaiḥ pippalādo mahāmuniḥ .. mama mātā mṛtā pūrvaṃ kaṃsārīti ca nāmataḥ .. 12 .. > Having bowed to them, the great sage Pippalāda spoke aloud: / "My mother, Kaṃsārī by name, previously died. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.13) tasyā uddeśato liṃgaṃ mayaitatsaṃpratiṣṭhitam .. yuṣmadvākyātprasiddhiṃ ca prayātu dvijasattamāḥ .. 13 .. > In her name, this liṅga has been consecrated by me. / By your word, O best of the twice-born, let it attain fame! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.14) aṣṭamyāṃ ca caturdaśyāṃ yaścaitatsnāpayiṣyati .. yājñavalkyeśvarotthaṃ ca sa vai śreyo hyavāpsyati .. 14 .. > And whoever bathes it on the eighth and the fourteenth \[lunar day\], / along with the one arising from Yājñavalkyeśvara, he shall indeed attain the highest good." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.15) .. sūta uvāca .. .. atha tairbrāhmaṇaiḥ sarvaistasya nāma pratiṣṭhitam .. kaṃsārīśvara ityevaṃ gauravāttasya sanmu neḥ .. 15 .. > Sūta said: / Then, by all those brahmins, out of respect for that virtuous sage, / its name was established as 'Kaṃsārīśvara'. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.16) etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ yatpṛṣṭho'smi dvijottamāḥ .. kaṃsārīśvarasaṃjñastu yathā jātastu pāpahā .. sthāpitaḥ pippalādena svayaṃ caiva mahātmanā .. 16 .. > All this, about which I was asked, has been related to you, O best of the twice-born, / how the sin-destroying \[liṅga\] named Kaṃsārīśvara came to be, / installed by the high-souled Pippalāda himself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.17) yaścaitatpuṇyamākhyānaṃ tasya devasya saṃnidhau .. saṃpaṭhecchṛṇuyādvāpi samyakchaktisamanvitaḥ .. 17 .. > And whoever reads or listens to this sacred narrative / in the presence of that god, endowed with full capacity, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.18) manasā ciṃtitaṃ pāpaṃ paradārakṛtaṃ ca yat .. tasya tannāśamāyāti pippalāda vaco yathā .. 18 .. > whatever sin was conceived in the mind or committed with another's wife, / that \[sin\] of his goes to destruction, in accordance with the words of Pippalāda. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.19) yastasya purato bhaktyā nīlarudrā nsadā japet .. prāṇarudrānviśeṣeṇa bhavarudrasamanvitān .. 19 .. > He who with devotion constantly recites the Nīlarudras before it, / especially the Prāṇarudras together with the Bhavarudras, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.20) brahmahatyodbhavaṃ caiva api tasya praṇaśyati .. paracakrabhaye jāte hyanā vṛṣṭibhaye tathā .. 6.176.20 .. > And the \[sin\] arising from the murder of a brahmin is also destroyed for him. / When danger from a foreign army arises, and likewise when there is fear of drought, 6.176.20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.21) atharvavede sādyaṃte paṭhite tasya cāgrataḥ .. śatrurvilayamabhyeti vṛṣṭiḥ sañjāyate drutam .. 21 .. > and the Atharvaveda is recited completely from beginning to end before him, / the enemy goes to destruction, and rain quickly falls. 21 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.22) rājadauḥsthye samutpanne rājā bhavati dhārmikaḥ .. sarvarogavinirmuktaḥ prajāpālanatatparaḥ .. 22 .. > When misfortune befalls the king, the king becomes righteous, / freed from all disease, and intent on protecting his subjects. 22 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.23) upasargabhaye jāte tasya doṣaḥ praśāmyati .. śanaiḥ śanairasaṃdigdhaṃ pippalādavaco yathā .. 23 .. > When fear of affliction arises, his defect is pacified / slowly and surely, according to the words of Pippalāda. 23 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.24) kiṃ vā te bahunoktena yatkiṃcidvyasanaṃ mahat .. tattasya vyasanaṃ kiṃcidatharvaṇaḥ prakī rtanāt .. 24 .. > Or what need is there to say much to you? Whatever great distress there is, / that distress of his, from reciting the \[hymns of the\] Atharvan, 24 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.25) asya devasya purato yāti nāśaṃ ca vai drutam .. 25 .. > goes quickly to destruction before this deity. 25 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.175.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175.176) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye kaṃsāreśvarotpattimāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaṭsaptatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 176 .. > Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-sixth chapter, named “The Description of the Māhātmya of the Origin of Kaṃsāreśvara,” in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvarakṣetra, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[section\], in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 176 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.175.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.175) · Pramāṇa