[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) › 5.68 # Skandapurana 5.68 Skandapurāṇa 5.68 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.68.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. atha te śabarā yatnādraktaṃ taddhaihayodbhavam .. tatra ninyuḥ sthitā yatra gartā sā pitṛsaṃbhavā .. 1 .. > Sūta said: / Then those Śabaras carefully carried that blood born from the Haihaya / to where that pit dug for the father was situated. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.2) bhārgavo'pi ca taṃ hatvā raktamādāya kṛtsnaśaḥ .. tataḥ saṃpreṣayāmāsa yatra gartā'tha paitṛkī .. 2 .. > And the descendant of Bhṛgu, having slain him and taken all the blood, / then dispatched it to where the paternal pit was. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.3) na sa bālaṃ na vṛddhaṃ ca parityajati bhārgavaḥ .. yauvanasthaṃ viśeṣeṇa garbhasthaṃ vātha kṣatriyam .. 3 .. > That descendant of Bhṛgu spared neither child nor old man, / nor one in the prime of youth, nor even a kṣatriya still in the womb. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.4) svayaṃ jaghāna bhūpānsa teṣāṃ pārśve tathā parān .. vidhvaṃsāyayati kruddhaḥ sainikaiśca samantataḥ .. 4 .. > He personally slew the kings and others beside them, / and enraged, he caused them to be destroyed on all sides by his soldiers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.5) tathaivāsṛkpragṛhṇāti gṛhṇāpayati cādarāt .. teṣāṃ pārśvaistatastūrṇaṃ preṣayāmāsa tatra ca .. 5 .. > In the same manner he collected their blood, carefully made others collect it, / and through those at his side quickly had it sent there. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.6) evaṃ niḥkṣatriyāṃ kṛtvā kṛtsnāṃ pṛthvīṃ bhṛgadvahaḥ .. hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre jagāma tadanantaram .. 6 .. > Having thus made the entire earth devoid of kṣatriyas, that scion of Bhṛgu / went immediately thereafter to the sacred field born of Hāṭakeśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.7) tatastai rudhiraiḥ snātvā samādāya tilānbahūn .. apasavyaṃ samādhāya pracakre pitṛtarpaṇam .. 7 .. > Then, having bathed in that blood and taken many sesame seeds, / placing \[his sacred thread\] over the right shoulder, he performed the tarpaṇa for the ancestors. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.8) pratyakṣaṃ sarvaviprāṇāṃ tathānyeṣāṃ tapasvinām .. pratijñāṃ pūrayitvā'tha viśokaḥ sa babhūva ha .. 8 .. > Before the eyes of all the brahmins as well as the other ascetics, / having fulfilled his vow, he became free from grief. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.9) tato niḥkṣatriye loke kṛtvā hayamakhaṃ ca saḥ .. prāyacchatsakalāmurvīṃ brāhmaṇebhyaśca dakṣiṇām .. 9 .. > Then, when the world was cleared of kṣatriyas, he performed a horse sacrifice / and granted the entire earth to the brahmins as their sacrificial fee. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.10) atha labdhavarā viprāstamūcurbhṛgusattamam .. nāsmadbhūmau tvayā stheyameko rājā yataḥ smṛtaḥ .. 6.68.10 .. > Then the brahmins, having obtained the boons, said to that best of the Bhṛgus: / 'You must not remain on our land, for a king is traditionally considered singular.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.10\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.10_1) so'pi bāḍhamiti procya harṣeṇa mahatānvitaḥ .. mahīparyaṃtamāsādya provācātha nadīpatim ...... āropya sumahaccāpamāgneyāstraṃ prayujya ca .. triśikhāṃ bhrukuṭīṃ kṛtvā kopena mahatānvitaḥ ...2.. > Saying 'Very well,' he, filled with great joy, / approached the edge of the earth and spoke to the lord of rivers \[the Ocean\]. / Stringing his mighty bow and fitting the fire weapon, / he knitted his brows into three furrows, filled with great wrath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.10\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.10_2) .. rāma uvāca .. .. mayā niḥkṣatriyā bhūmiḥ kṛtā śailavanānvitā .. brāhmaṇebhyastato dattā vājimedhe mahāmakhe ...3.. > Rāma said: / 'I have made the earth, with its mountains and forests, devoid of kṣatriyas / and then given it to the brahmins in the great horse sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.14) tasmāttvaṃ dehi me sthānaṃ kṛtvā'pasaraṇaṃ svayam.. na hi dattvā grahī ṣyāmi viprebhyo medinīṃ punaḥ .. 14 .. > Therefore, make way yourself and give me a place. / For having given the earth to the brahmins, I will not take it back again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.15) na karoṣyathavā vākyaṃ mamādya tvaṃ nadīpate .. sthalarūpaṃ kariṣyāmi vahnyastrapariśoṣitam .. 15 .. > If you do not obey my command today, O lord of rivers, / I will dry you up with the fire weapon and turn you into dry land.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.16) .. sūta uvāca .. .. tasya tadvacanaṃ śrutvā samudro bhayasaṃkulaḥ .. apasāraṃ tataścakre yāvattasyābhivāṃchitam .. 16 .. > Sūta said: / Hearing his words, the Ocean, agitated with fear, / thereupon withdrew as far as he desired. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.16\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.16_3) tataścakāra tatraiva vasatiṃ sa bhṛgūdvahaḥ .. tapaścaryāsamāyuktaḥ piturvadhamanusmaran...7.. > Then that scion of Bhṛgu took up residence right there, / engaged in austerity and remembering the slaying of his father. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.16\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.16_4) tataḥ sarvānpulindāṃśca śavarānmedasaṃyutān .. bhūmyante dhārayāmāsa parvateṣu sa bhārgavaḥ ...8.. > Then that descendant of Bhṛgu settled all the Pulindas / and the Śabaras together with the Medas at the edge of the land, on the mountains. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.68.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68.68) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye paraśurāmakṛtamahīdānapūrvakasamudrāpasāraṇavṛttāntavarṇanaṃnāmā ṣṭāṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 68 .. .. cha .. > Thus ends the sixty-eighth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Ocean's Retreat Preceded by the Gift of the Earth by Paraśurāma', in the māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara sacred field, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[part\] of the auspicious 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.5.68.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.29.13) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.68) · Pramāṇa