[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) › 5.210 # Skandapurana 5.210 Skandapurāṇa 5.210 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.210.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.1) .. viśvāmitra uvāca .. .. rājño dāridryadoṣasya kuṣṭhavyādheśca kāraṇam .. kathayitvā punaḥ prāha nārado munisattamaḥ .. 1 .. > Viśvāmitra said: / Having explained the cause of the king's poverty and leprosy, / Nārada, the best of sages, spoke again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.2) .. nārada uvāca .. .. etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ rājankuṣṭhasya kāraṇam .. dāridryasya ca yatsamyagjñātvā divyena cakṣuṣā .. 2 .. > Nārada said: / All this has been told to you, O king, the cause of leprosy / and of poverty, which I knew correctly with my divine eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.3) adhunā saṃpravakṣyāmi yathā tava parābhavaḥ .. śatrubhyaḥ saṃprajāto'tra dvijānāmapamānataḥ .. 3 .. > Now I will explain how your defeat / at the hands of your enemies arose here from the disrespect shown to brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.4) ānartādhipatiryo'tra kaścidrājye'bhiṣicyate .. sa pūrvaṃ gacchati grāmaṃ nāgarāṇāṃ prabhaktitaḥ .. 4 .. > Whoever is consecrated in the kingship here as the lord of Ānarta, / goes first to the village of the Nāgaras with great devotion. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.5) tvayā tatkalpitaṃ rājannaiva dattaṃ pramādataḥ .. parābhūtā dvijāste ca yācamānā muhurmuhuḥ .. 5 .. > What was assigned for them, O king, was not given by you through negligence; / and those twice-born, begging repeatedly, were turned away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.6) tathā kopavaśādyāni śāsanāni dvijanmanām .. lopitāni tvayānyāni pitṛpaitāmahāni ca .. 6 .. > Likewise, under the influence of anger, other land-grants belonging to the twice-born / that had descended from your fathers and grandfathers were revoked by you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.7) tena te'tra parābhūtiḥ saṃjātā śatrusaṃbhavā .. evaṃ jñātvā dvijedrāṇāṃ śāsa nāni prayaccha bhoḥ .. 7 .. > Because of that, your defeat by enemies occurred here. / Knowing this, grant royal charters to the lords among the twice-born, O king! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.8) gṛhītāni ca yānyeva teṣāṃ mokṣaṃ samācara .. tacchrutvā pārthivaḥ so'tha śaṃkhatīrthe prabhaktitaḥ .. 8 .. > And release those \[lands\] which were seized! / Hearing that, that king then with great devotion at Śaṅkhatīrtha, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.9) snātvā viprānsamā hūya madhyagena samanvitān .. śaṃkhādityasya purataḥ prakṣālya caraṇau nṛpa .. 9 .. > having bathed and summoned the brahmins together with their intermediary, / and having washed their feet before Śaṅkhāditya, O king, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.10) dadau ca śāsanaśataṃ prakṣālya caraṇāṃstataḥ .. ṣaḍviṃśatyadhikaṃ rājā nāgarāṇāṃ mahātmanām .. 6.211.10 .. > the king, having washed their feet, gave a hundred / and twenty-six charters to the noble Nāgaras. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.11) etasminnaṃtare tatra śatravo ye ca saṃsthitāḥ .. sarve mṛtyuṃ samāpannā brāhmaṇānāṃ prasādataḥ .. 11 .. > In the meantime, the enemies who were established there / all met their death through the grace of the brahmins. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.12) viśvāmitra uvāca .. .. etatte sarvamākhyātaṃ śaṃkhatīrthasamudbhavam .. prabhāvaṃ pārthivaśreṣṭha kiṃ bhūyaḥ śrotumicchasi .. 12 .. > Viśvāmitra said: / All this power arising from Śaṅkhatīrtha has been told to you, / O best of kings. What more do you wish to hear? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.210.211](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210.211) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śaṃkhatīrthamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikādaśottaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..211.. > Thus ends the two hundred and eleventh chapter, entitled "Description of the Śaṅkhatīrthamāhātmya", in the Hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya of the sixth section, the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.210.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.210) · Pramāṇa