[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) › 5.243 # Skandapurana 5.243 Skandapurāṇa 5.243 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.243.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.1) .. paijavana uvāca .. .. etānbhedānmama brūhi vistareṇa tapodhana .. tvadvākyāmṛtapānena tṛṣā naiva praśāmyati .. 1 .. > Paijavana said: / O you whose wealth is austerity, declare these varieties to me in detail; / drinking the nectar of your speech, my thirst is not at all quenched. 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.2) .. gālava uvāca .. .. śṛṇu vistarato bhedānpurāṇoktānvadāmi te .. yāñchrutvā mucyate'vaśyaṃ manujaḥ sarvakilbiṣāt .. 2 .. > Gālava said: / Listen in detail, I shall tell you the varieties spoken of in the Purāṇas, / hearing which a human being is inevitably freed from all sins. 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.3) pūrvaṃ tu keśavaḥ pūjyo dvitīyo madhusūdanaḥ .. saṃkarṣaṇastṛtīyastu tato dāmodaraḥ smṛtaḥ .. 3 .. > First Keśava is to be worshipped, the second is Madhusūdana, / the third is Saṃkarṣaṇa, and then Dāmodara is remembered. 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.4) paṃcamo vāsudevākhyaḥ ṣaṣṭhaḥ pradyumnasaṃjñakaḥ .. saptamo viṣṇuruktaścāṣṭamo mādhava eva ca .. 4 .. > The fifth is named Vāsudeva, the sixth is named Pradyumna, / the seventh is declared as Viṣṇu, and the eighth is Mādhava. 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.5) navamo'naṃtamūrttiśca daśamaḥ puruṣottamaḥ .. adhokṣajastataḥ paścāddvādaśastu janārdanaḥ .. 5 .. > The ninth is Anantamūrti, and the tenth is Puruṣottama; / thereafter Adhokṣaja, and the twelfth is Janārdana. 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.6) trayodaśastu goviṃdaścaturdaśastrivikramaḥ .. śrīdharaśca paṃcadaśo hṛṣīkeśastu ṣoḍaśaḥ .. 6 .. > The thirteenth is Govinda, the fourteenth is Trivikrama, / the fifteenth is Śrīdhara, and the sixteenth is Hṛṣīkeśa. 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.7) nṛsiṃhastu saptadaśo viśvayonistataḥ param.. vāmanaśca tataḥ prokta stato nārāyaṇaḥ smṛtaḥ .. 7 .. > The seventeenth is Nṛsiṃha, after that Viśvayoni; / then Vāmana is proclaimed, after that Nārāyaṇa is remembered. 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.9) puṃḍarīkākṣa uktastu hyupeṃdraśca tataḥ param .. haristrayoviṃśatimaḥ kṛṣṇaścāṃtya udāhṛtaḥ .. 9 .. > Puṇḍarīkākṣa is spoken of, and then indeed Upendra after that; / Hari is the twenty-third, and Kṛṣṇa is declared as the last. 8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.9\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.9_1) śāligrāmasya bhedāṃśca mayoktāstava śūdraja .. mūrtibhedāstathā proktā eta eva mahādhana .. 9 .. > These varieties of the Śāligrāma have been declared to you by me, O born of a Śūdra; / likewise, O wealthy one, these very manifestations of the deity are proclaimed. 9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.10) mūrttayastithinānmyaḥ syurekādaśyaḥ sadaiva hi .. saṃvatsareṇa pūjyaṃte caturviṃśa timūrtayaḥ .. 6.244.10 .. > The forms are always named after the lunar days of the Ekādaśīs; / throughout the course of a year, the twenty-four forms are worshipped. 10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.11) devāvatārāśca tathā caturviṃśatisaṃkhyakāḥ .. māsā mārgaśirādyāśca māsārddhāḥ pakṣasaṃjñakāḥ .. 11 .. > And likewise the divine incarnations are twenty-four in number, / as are the months beginning with Mārgaśīrṣa, and the half-months known as fortnights. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.12) adhīśasahitānnityaṃ pūjayanbhaktimānbhavet .. caturviṃśatisaṃjñaṃ ca catuṣṭayamudāhṛtam .. 12 .. > Always worshiping them along with their presiding lords, one becomes full of devotion. / Thus the fourfold set consisting of twenty-four each has been declared. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.13) etaccatuṣṭayaṃ nṛṇāṃ dharmakāmārthamokṣadam .. yaḥ śṛṇoti naro bhakttayā paṭhedvāpi samāhitaḥ .. 13 .. > This tetrad bestows righteousness, pleasure, wealth, and liberation upon men. / A person who hears it with devotion, or recites it with concentrated mind— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.14) bhūtasargasya goptā'sau haristasya prasīdati .. 14 .. > Hari, the protector of the creation of living beings, becomes pleased with him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.243.244](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243.244) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmya śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye śāligrāmaśilāsumūrttyutpattivarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśaduttaradvi śatatamodhyāyaḥ .. 244 .. > Thus ends the two hundred and forty-fourth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Origin of the Images in the Śāligrāma Stones,' in the Māhātmya of Cāturmāsya, in the Dialogue of Brahmā and Nārada, within the Story of Śeṣaśāyin, in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[section\], in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.243.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.243) · Pramāṇa