[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) › 5.44 # Skandapurana 5.44 Skandapurāṇa 5.44 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.44.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.1) .. menakovāca .. .. nūnaṃ hi kāmadharme tvaṃ na pravīṇo mahādyute .. tena māmīdṛśairvākyairnivārayasi rāgiṇīm .. 1 .. > Menakā said: / Surely, O you of great splendor, you are not skilled in the ways of love; / for that reason, you ward me off, who am impassioned, with such words. // 1 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.2) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evamuktastato bhūyo viśvāmitro'bravīdidam .. kopena mahatā yukto niḥspṛhastatparigrahe .. 2 .. > Sūta said: / Thus addressed, Viśvāmitra then spoke this again, / filled with great anger, having no desire to accept her. // 2 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.3) .. viśvāmitra uvāca .. .. tvaṃ jīva gaccha vā mṛtyuṃ nāhaṃ kartāsmi te vacaḥ .. vratanāśāttu yatpāpamadhikaṃ strīvadhādbhavet .. 3 .. > Viśvāmitra said: / Either live or go to death; I will not do your bidding! / For greater is the sin that arises from the destruction of a vow than from killing a woman. // 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.4) prāyaścittaṃ budhairuktaṃ vratināṃ strīvadhe kṛte .. na saṃgāttu punastāsāṃ tasmāttvaṃ gantumarhasi .. 4 .. > An expiation has been declared by the wise for observers of vows when the killing of a woman is committed, / but none for contact with them; therefore you should depart. // 4 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.5) na kevalaṃ vratopetāḥ strīsaṃgātpāpamāpnuyuḥ .. vratabāhyā api narāḥ saktāḥ strīṣu pataṃtyadhaḥ .. 5 .. > Not only do those engaged in vows incur sin from contact with women; / even men devoid of vows, when attached to women, fall low. // 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.6) saṃsārabhramaṇaṃ nārī prathamepi samāgame .. vahnipradakṣiṇā vyājanyāyenaiva pradarśayet .. 6 .. > A woman reveals the wandering of worldly existence even at the very first union, / by the very pretext of circumambulating the fire. // 6 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.7) tasmātstrībhiḥ samaṃ prājñaḥ saṃbhāṣāmapi varjayet .. āstāṃ tāvatsamāsaṃgaṃ ya icchecchreya ātmanaḥ ..7 .. > Therefore, a wise man should avoid even conversation with women, / let alone intimate union, if he desires his own welfare. // 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.8) aṃgāra sadṛśā nārī ghṛtakuṃbhasamaḥ pumān .. asparśāddṛḍhatāmeti tatsaṃparkādvilīyate .. 8 .. > A woman is like a glowing coal, and a man is like a jar of clarified butter: / without contact he attains firmness; upon contact with her, he melts away. // 8 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.9) striyo mūlamanarthānāṃ sarveṣāṃ prāṇināṃ bhuvi .. tasmāttyājyā sudūreṇa tāḥ svargasya nirodhakāḥ .. 9 .. > Women are the root of all misfortunes for all living beings on earth; / therefore, they should be abandoned far away, being obstacles to heaven. // 9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.10) kulīnā vittavatyaśca nāthavatyo'pi yoṣitaḥ .. ekasminnaṃtare rāgaṃ kurvaṃtyetāḥ sucañcalāḥ ..6.44.10.. > Even women of noble birth, wealthy, and having husbands, / being extremely fickle, set their passion elsewhere in an instant. // 10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.12) na strībhyaḥ kiṃcidanyaddhi pāpāya vidyate bhuvi .. yāsāṃ saṃgasamāsādya saṃsāre bhramate janaḥ ...... nīco'pi kurute sevāṃ yastāsāṃ vijaneṣvatha .. virūpaṃ vāpi nīcaṃ vā taṃ sevante hi tāḥ striyaḥ .. 12 .. > For there exists nothing else on earth that leads to sin more than women, / having obtained whose contact people wander in worldly existence. / Even a base man who serves them in secret— / women attend upon him, whether he is deformed or low-born. // 11-12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.13) anarthatvānmanuṣyāṇāṃ bhayātparijanasya ca .. maryādāyāmamaryādāḥ striyastiṣṭhanti bhartṛṣu .. 13 .. > Due to the worthlessness of men and fear of their attendants, / unruly women stay within the bounds of propriety toward their husbands. // 13 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.14) ..sūta uvāca .. .. evaṃ saṃbhartsitā tena menakā kopasaṃyutā .. śaśāpa taṃ muniśreṣṭhaṃ sphuramāṇoṣṭhasaṃpuṭā .. 14 .. > Sūta said: / Thus rebuked by him, Menakā, filled with anger, / cursed that best of sages with trembling lips: 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.15) yasmāttvayā parityaktā sakāmāhaṃ sudurmate.. tyajatā kāmajaṃ dharmaṃ tasmācchāpaṃ gṛhāṇa me .. 15 .. > “Since I, filled with desire, have been abandoned by you, O extremely evil-minded one, / abandoning the duty born of desire, therefore accept my curse! 15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.16) adyaiva bhava duburddhe valīpalitasaṃyutaḥ .. jarājarjjaritāṃgaśca tucchadṛṣṭirviraṃgitaḥ .. 16 .. > This very day, O fool, become covered with wrinkles and grey hair, / with limbs worn out by old age, your eyesight diminished, and bent crooked!” 16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.17) .. sūta uvāca .. .. uktamātre tu vacane tatkṣaṇānmunisattamaḥ .. babhūva tādṛśaḥ sadyastayā yādṛkprakīrtitaḥ .. 17 .. > Sūta said: / The moment the word was spoken, instantly the best of sages / became just as she had described. 17 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.18) tataḥ kopaparītātmā so'pi tāṃ śaptumudyataḥ .. kamaṇḍalorjalaṃ gṛhya saṃtāpādraktalocanaḥ .. 18 .. > Then, his mind overcome with rage, he too prepared to curse her; / taking water from his water-pot, his eyes red with anger, \[he said:\] 18 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.19) nirdoṣo'pi tvayā yasmācchapto'haṃ gaṇikādhame .. tasmādbhava tvamapyāśu jarājarjaritāṃgikā .. 19 .. > “Because I, though faultless, was cursed by you, O lowest of courtesans, / therefore do you also quickly become worn out in your limbs with old age!” 19 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.20) sāpi tadvacanātsadyastādṛgrūpā vyajāyata .. yādṛśo'sau muniśreṣṭho valīpalitagātrabhṛt .. 6.44.20 .. > She too, by his word, instantly took on such a form / as that best of sages, bearing a body with wrinkles and grey hair. 20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.21) atha tādṛksvarūpeṇa snātā tatra jalā śaye .. bhūyo'pi tādṛśī jātā yādṛśī saṃsthitā purā .. 21 .. > Then, having bathed in that reservoir in such a form, / she again became just as she had been before. 21 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.22) taddṛṣṭvā paramāścaryamatīva tvarayānvitaḥ.. so'pi tatrākarotsnānaṃ saṃjātaśca yathā purā .. 22 .. > Seeing that supreme wonder, filled with great haste, / he too took a ritual ablution there and became as \[he was\] before. 22 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.23) tatastau tīrthamāhātmyādrūpaudāryaguṇānvitau .. mitha āmaṃtrya saṃhṛṣṭau gatau deśaṃ yathepsitam .. 23 .. > Then the two of them, endowed with the qualities of beauty and nobility through the māhātmya of the sacred ford, / took leave of each other delighted and went to the place each desired. 23 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.24) evaṃ tīrthasya māhātmyaṃ vijñāya bhagavānṛṣiḥ .. liṃgaṃ saṃsthāpayāmāsa devadevasya śūlinaḥ .. 24 .. > Having thus understood the māhātmya of the sacred ford, the venerable ṛṣi / installed a liṅga of the trident-bearing God of gods. 24 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.25) tapaścakāra sumahattasmiṃstīrthavare tadā .. kuśastambena kṛtavāṃstatsaro vipulaṃ vibhuḥ .. .. 25 .. > He then performed great austerity at that best of sacred fords; / with a clump of kuśa grass the lord created that vast lake. 25 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.26) tatra snātvā naro yastu pūjayelliṃgamuttamam .. viśvāmitreśvaraṃ khyātaṃ sa gacchecchivamaṃdiram .. 26 .. > A person who, having bathed there, worships that excellent liṅga, / known as Viśvāmitreśvara, goes to the abode of Śiva. 26 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.27) adyāpi dṛśyate tatra gaṃgodakasamaṃ jalam .. sarvapāpaharaṃ puṇyaṃ sarvakāmapradāyakam .. 27 .. > Even today the water seen there is equal to the water of the Gaṅgā, / removing all sins, holy, and granting all desires. 27 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.28) yastatra kurute snānaṃ śraddhāpūtena cetasā .. sa devalokamāsādya pitṛbhiḥ saha modate ..28.. > Whoever performs a ritual ablution there with a mind purified by faith / reaches the world of the gods and rejoices with the ancestors. 28 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.29) tataḥprabhṛti tattīrthaṃ khyātiṃ prāptaṃ mahītale .. pātāle svargaloke ca rūpaudāryapradaṃ nṛṇām .. 29 .. > From that time forth, that sacred ford attained fame on the earth, / in Pātāla, and in the heavenly realm, as bestowing beauty and nobility upon mortals. 29 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.30) etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ yatpṛṣṭo'smi dvijottamāḥ .. viśvāmitreśa māhātmyaṃ sarvapātakanāśanam .. 6.44.30 .. > All this has been related to you about which I was asked, O best of the twice-born: / the māhātmya of Viśvāmitreśa, which destroys all sins. 30 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.44.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44.44) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṃḍe śrīhāṭakevarakṣetramāhātmye viśvāmitrakuṇḍotpatti viśvāmitreśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuścatvāriṃśattamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 44 .. .. > Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, entitled “The Origin of Viśvāmitrakuṇḍa and the Description of the Māhātmya of Viśvāmitreśvara,” in the māhātmya of the sacred field of Śrī Hāṭakeśvara in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[section\] in the venerable Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. 44 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.5.44.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.44) · Pramāṇa