[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) › 5.250 # Skandapurana 5.250 Skandapurāṇa 5.250 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.250.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.1) .. gālava uvāca .. .. ityuktvā''kāśajāvāṇī virarāma śubhapradā .. te'pi devāstadāścaryaṃ mahaddṛṣṭvā mahāvratāḥ .. 1 .. > Gālava said: / Having spoken thus, the voice born from the sky, which bestows auspiciousness, fell silent. / Then those gods of great vows, having seen that great wonder, 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.2) catuṣṭayaṃ ca vṛkṣāṇāṃ cāturmāsye samāgate .. apūjayaṃśca vidhivadaikyabhāvena śūdraja .. 2 .. > worshipped the group of four trees when Cāturmāsya arrived / in accordance with the rules with a sense of oneness, O son of a Śūdra. 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.3) cāturmāsye'tha saṃpūrṇe devo hariharātmakaḥ .. prasannastānuvācātha bhaktyā pratyakṣarūpadhṛk .. 3 .. > When Cāturmāsya was completed, the Lord whose essence is Hari and Hara, / being pleased through their devotion, assuming a visible form, then said to them: 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.4) yūyaṃ gacchata deveśa mahā vrataparāyaṇāḥ .. bhuṃkta svānsvāṃścādhikārānmayā te dānavā hatāḥ .. 4 .. > 'Go, O lords of the gods, devoted to great vows; / enjoy your respective authorities; the Dānavas have been slain by me.' 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.5) ityuktvā devadeveśāvaikyarūpadharau yadā .. gaṇānāṃ devatānāṃ ca buddhiṃ nirbhedatāṃ tadā .. 5 .. > Having said this, when the two Lords of the gods, assuming a unified form, / were bringing the intellect of the gaṇas and the deities to non-differentiation, 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.6) nayantau tau tadā ceśā babhūvaturarindamau.. te'pi devā nirābādhā hṛṣṭacittā hyabhedataḥ .. 6 .. > then those two Lords, subduers of enemies, existed \[as one\]. / Those gods too, free from distress, rejoicing in mind through non-duality, 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.7) prayayuḥ svāṃścādhikārānvimānagaṇa koṭibhiḥ .. .. gālava uvāca .. .. tathā tatrāpi te devāḥ pārvatyāḥ śāpamohitāḥ .. 7 .. > departed to their respective offices on crores of aerial chariots. / Gālava said: / Then, there too, those gods, deluded by Pārvatī's curse, 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.8) stutvā tāṃ bilvapatraiśca pūjayitvā maheśvarīm .. prasannavadanāṃ stutvā praṇipatya punaḥpunaḥ .. 8 .. > having praised her and worshipped Maheśvarī with bilva leaves, / praising her whose face was gracious, prostrating again and again, 8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.9) sā provāca tato devānviśvamātā tu saṃstutā .. mama śāpo vṛthā naiva bhaviṣyati surottamāḥ .. 9 .. > the Mother of the Universe, being thus praised, then said to the gods: / 'My curse shall not be in vain, O best of gods. 9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.10) tathāpi kṛtapāpānāṃ karavāṇi kṛpāṃ ca vaḥ .. svarge dṛṣanmayā naiva bhaviṣyatha surottamāḥ .. 6.251.10 .. > Nevertheless, I shall show grace to you who have committed sin: / you shall not become made of stone in heaven, O best of gods; 10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.11) martyalokaṃ ca saṃprāpya pratimāsu ca sarvaśaḥ .. sarve devāśca varadā lokānāṃ prabhaviṣyatha .. 11 .. > having reached the mortal world, in images everywhere, / all you gods shall become boongivers to people. 11 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.12) pāṇigraheṇa vihitā ye kumārāḥ kumārikāḥ .. teṣāṃteṣāṃ prajāścaiva bhaviṣyatha na saṃśayaḥ .. 12 .. > Those young men and maidens who are joined in marriage, / you shall indeed become their offspring, without a doubt.' 12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.13) ityuktvā sā bhagavatī devatānāṃ varapradā .. viṣṇuṃ maheśvaraṃ caiva provāca kupitā bhṛśam .. 13 .. > Having spoken thus, that goddess, bestower of boons upon the deities, / addressed Viṣṇu and Maheśvara, extremely enraged: 13 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.14) devāstasyā bhayānnaṣṭā martyeṣu pratimāṃ gatāḥ .. bhaktānāṃ mānasaṃ bhāvaṃ pūrayantaḥ susaṃsthitāḥ .. 14 .. > Out of fear of her, the gods vanished and took form as images among mortals, / remaining well established and fulfilling the desires of devotees' hearts. 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.15) yasmādviṣṇo maheśānastvayā'pi na niṣedhitaḥ .. tasmāttvamapi pāṣāṇo bhaviṣyasi na saṃśayaḥ .. 15 .. > “Because, O Viṣṇu, you too did not stop the Great Lord, / therefore you also will become stone, without a doubt. 15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.16) haro'pyaśmamayaṃ rūpaṃ prāpya lokavigarhitam .. liṃgākāraṃ vipraśāpānmahadduḥkhamavāpsyati .. 16 .. > Hara, too, having assumed a form of stone despised by the world, / having the shape of a liṅga, will undergo great suffering through the brahmin's curse.” 16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.17) tacchrutvā bhagavānviṣṇuḥ pārvatīmanukūlayan .. uvāca praṇato bhūtvā harabhāryāṃ maheśvarīm .. 17 .. > Hearing that, Lord Viṣṇu, propitiating Pārvatī, / bowed down and spoke to the wife of Hara, the Great Goddess. 17 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.18) .. śrīviṣṇuruvāca .. .. mahāvrate mahādevi mahādevapriyā sadā .. tvaṃ hi sattvarajaḥsthā ca tāmasī śaktiruttamā .. 18 .. > Lord Viṣṇu said: / “O lady of great vows, O great goddess, ever beloved of the Great God, / you abide in sattva and rajas, and you are the supreme tāmasic Śakti. 18 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.19) mātrātrayasamopetā guṇatrayavibhāvinī .. māyādīnāṃ janitrī tvaṃ viśvavyāpakarūpiṇī .. 19 .. > Endowed with the three measures, manifesting the three guṇas, / you are the mother of māyā and the rest, having a form that pervades the universe. 19 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.20) vedatrayastutā tvaṃ ca sādhyārūpeṇa rāgiṇī .. arūpā sarvarūpā tvaṃ janasantānadāyinī .. 6.251.20 .. > You are praised by the three Vedas, passionate in the form of what is to be attained; / formless yet possessing all forms, you grant continuity of offspring. 20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.21) phalavelā mahākālī mahālakṣmīḥ sarasvatī .. oṃkāraśca vaṣaṭkārastvameva hi sureśvari .. 21 .. > The time of harvest, Mahākālī, Mahālakṣmī, Sarasvatī, / the syllable Oṃ and the call vaṣaṭ—you alone indeed are these, O queen of gods! 21 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.22) bhūtadhātri namaste'stu śivāyai ca namo'stu te .. rāgiṇyai ca virāgiṇyai vikarāle namaḥ śubhe .. 22 .. > O supporter of creatures, praise be to you; praise be to Śivā! / Praise be to the passionate and the dispassionate, O dreadful and auspicious one! 22 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.23) evaṃ stutā prasannākṣī prasannenāṃtarātmanā .. uvāca paramodāraṃ mithyāroṣayutaṃ vacaḥ .. 23 .. > Praised in this manner, with pleased eyes and a serene inner self, / she spoke words of supreme generosity, mingled with feigned anger: 23 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.24) macchāpo nā'nyathā bhāvī janārdana tavāpyayam .. tatrā'pi saṃsthitastvaṃ hi yogīśvaravimuktidaḥ .. 24 .. > “This curse of mine shall not be otherwise, Janārdana, even for you; / yet abiding there, you shall indeed bestow liberation on the lords of yoga. 24 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.25) kāmapradaśca bhaktānāṃ cāturmāsye viśeṣataḥ .. nimnagā gaṃḍakīnāma brahmaṇo dayitā sutā .. 25 .. > And you shall grant desires to devotees, especially during the Cāturmāsya. / There is a river named Gaṇḍakī, the beloved daughter of Brahmā, 25 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.26) pāṣāṇasārasaṃbhūtā puṇyadātrī mahājalā .. tasyāḥ suvimale nīre tava vāso bhaviṣyati .. 26 .. > born from the essence of stone, conferring merit, having vast waters. / In her pure waters your dwelling shall be. 26 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.27) caturviṃśatibhedena purāṇajñairnirīkṣitaḥ . mukhe jāṃbūnadaṃ caiva śālagrāmaḥ prakīrtitaḥ .. 27 .. > Perceived in twenty-four varieties by those who know the Purāṇas, / having gold in its mouth, it is celebrated as the Śālagrāma. 27 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.28) varttulastejasaḥ piṃḍaḥ śriyā yukto bhaviṣyasi .. sarvasāmarthyasaṃyukto yogināmapi mokṣadaḥ .. 28 .. > You will be a round mass of splendor, united with Śrī, / endowed with all power, bestowing liberation even on yogins. 28 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.29) ye tvāṃ śilāgataṃ viṣṇuṃ pūjayiṣyaṃti mānavāḥ .. teṣāṃ sucintitāṃ siddhiṃ bhaktānāṃ saṃprayacchasi .. 29 .. > Those mortals who worship you, Viṣṇu, residing in the stone— / to those devotees you grant their desired perfection. 29 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.30) śilāgataṃ ca deveśaṃ tulasyā bhakti tatparāḥ .. pūjayiṣyaṃti manujāsteṣāṃ muktirna dūrataḥ .. 6.251.30 .. > And the mortals devoted to bhakti who worship the lord of the gods in stone / with tulasī—for them liberation is not far away. 30 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.31) śilāsthitaṃ ca yaḥ paśyettvāṃ viṣṇuṃ pratimāgatam .. sucakrāṃkitasarvāṃgaṃ na sa gacchedyamālayam .. 31 .. > And whoever sees you, Viṣṇu, present in an image and situated in stone, / all of whose limbs are marked with auspicious discuses, does not go to the abode of Yama.” 31 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.32) .. gālava uvāca .. .. iti te kathitaṃ sarvaṃ śālagrāmasya kāraṇam .. yathā sa bhagavānviṣṇuḥ pāṣāṇatvamupā gataḥ .. 32 .. > Gālava said: / Thus has been told to you the entire origin of the Śālagrāma, / how the blessed Viṣṇu attained the state of being a stone. 32 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.33) govindo'pi mahāśāpaṃ labdhvā svabhavanaṃ gataḥ .. pārvatī ca maheśānaṃ kupitā praṇamayya ca .. 33 . > Govinda too, having received that great curse, went to his own abode. / And Pārvatī, making the Great Lord bow, wrathfully departed. 33 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.34) evaṃ sa eva bhagavānbhavabhūta bhavyabhūtādikṛtsakalasaṃsthitināśanāṃkaḥ .. so'pi śriyā saha bhavo'pi girīśaputryā sārddhaṃ caturṣu ca drumeṣu nivāsamāpa .. 34 .. > Thus that Lord, creator of beings past, present, and future, marked by the destruction of all existence, / he along with Śrī, and Bhava along with the daughter of the Mountain Lord, took up their residence in four trees. 34 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.250.251](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.250.251) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śeṣaśāyyupākhyāne brahmanāradasaṃvāde cāturmāsyamāhātmye paija vanopākhyāne viṣṇuśāponāmaikapañcāśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 251 .. > Thus ends the two hundred fifty-first chapter, entitled “The Curse of Viṣṇu,” in the narrative of Paijavana, in the glorification of the Cāturmāsya, in the dialogue between Brahmā and Nārada, in the account of the one who reclines on Śeṣa, in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvara Sacred Field, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa in the Skandamahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. 251 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.250.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - 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