[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) › 5.89 # Skandapurana 5.89 Skandapurāṇa 5.89 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.89.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.1) .. sūta uvāca .. .. evaṃ tatra sthite nityaṃ tasminmātṛgaṇe dvijāḥ .. bālakānāṃ kṣayo jajñe brāhmaṇānāṃ gṛhegṛhe .. 1 .. > Sūta said: / When that group of Mothers was thus stationed there constantly, O twice-born ones, / destruction of children occurred in house after house of the brahmins, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.2) taruṇānāṃ viśeṣeṇa camatkārapurottare .. chidramanveṣamāṇāstā bhramaṃtyakhiladevatāḥ .. 2 .. > especially of youth, to the north of Camatkārapura. / Searching for vulnerability, all those goddesses roamed about. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.3) tataste brāhmaṇāḥ sarve jñātvā chidrasamudbhavam .. vighātaṃ bālakānāṃ ca devatābhirvinirmitam .. 3 .. > Then all those brahmins, recognizing the destruction of their children / arising from vulnerability, caused by the deities, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.4) ambāvṛddhe samāsādya pūjayitvā prayatnataḥ .. procuśca duḥkhasantaptā vinayāvanatāḥ sthitāḥ .. 4 .. > approached Ambā and Vṛddhā, worshipped them diligently, / and, burning with sorrow, bowing down in humility, said: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.9) rakṣārthaṃ sarvaviprāṇāṃ camatkāreṇa bhūbhujā .. bhavadbhyāṃ nirmitaḥ śreṣṭhaḥ prāsādo'yaṃ manoharaḥ .. 9 .. > "For the protection of all the vipras, by King Camatkāra / this excellent, delightful palace was built for both of you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.9\_1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.9_1) hriyaṃte bālakā rātrau chidraṃ prāpya sahasraśaḥ .. yuṣmadīyābhiretābhirdevatābhiḥ samantataḥ .. 6 .. > Finding an opening, children by the thousands are carried off at night / on all sides by these deities belonging to you. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.9\_2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.9_2) prasādaḥ kriyatāṃ tasmādbrāhmaṇānāṃ mahātmanām .. no cetpuraṃ parityajya yāsyāmo'nyatra bhūtale .. 7 .. > Therefore let favor be shown to the noble-minded brahmins; / otherwise, abandoning the city, we will depart elsewhere on earth." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.9\_3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.9_3) teṣāṃ tadvacanaṃ śrutvā tatoṃ'bā kṛpayānvitā .. hatvā pādaprahāreṇa bhūmiṃ cakre guhāṃ tataḥ .. 8 .. > Hearing their word, Ambā, filled with compassion, / struck the ground with a blow of her foot and then created a cave. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.9\_4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.9_4) tasyāṃ sve pāduke nyasya tataḥ provāca devatāḥ .. sarvāstā natasarvāṃgīrvinayena samanvitāḥ .. 9 .. > Placing her two wooden sandals therein, she then addressed all those deities / who bowed their whole bodies and were endowed with humility: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.10) ime matpāduke divye guhāmadhyagate sadā .. sarvābhiḥ sevanīye ca na gantavyaṃ bahiḥ kvacit .. 6.89.10 .. > "These two divine wooden sandals of mine, staying always within the cave, / are to be served by all \[of you\], and you must never go outside. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.11) yā kācillaulyamāsthāya niṣkramiṣyati mohataḥ .. sā divyabhāvanirmuktā śṛgālī saṃbhaviṣyati .. 11 .. > Whichever \[goddess\], resorting to greed, should go out through delusion / shall be deprived of her divine nature and become a female jackal." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.12) .. devatā ūcuḥ .. .. atra sthāne mahādevi ko'smākaṃ prakariṣyati .. pūjāṃ ko vātra cāhārastasmādbrūhi sureśvari .. 12 .. > The deities said: / "O great goddess, who will perform worship for us in this place? / Or what shall be our food here? Therefore tell us, O ruler of the gods!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.13) .. ambovāca .. .. atrāgatya vinirmuktā yogino dhyānacintakāḥ .. pūjāṃ samyakkariṣyaṃti sarvāsāṃ bhaktisaṃyutāḥ .. 13 .. > Ambā said: / "Yogins, liberated and contemplating in meditation, coming here, / filled with devotion, will duly perform worship for you all. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.14) pāduke me prapūjyādau māṃsa madyādibhiḥ kramāt .. avāpsyaṃti ca saṃsiddhiṃ durlabhāmamarairapi .. 14 .. > Having first duly worshipped my two wooden sandals with meat, wine, and the like, in order, / they will attain perfection difficult to obtain even by the immortals." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.15) tatastatheti tāḥ procya guhāmadhye vyavasthitāḥ .. parivārya śubhe tasyāḥ pāduke mokṣadāyike .. 15 .. > Then, saying 'So be it', they stayed inside the cave, / surrounding those auspicious sandals of hers that bestow liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.16) tatastatra samāgatya puruṣā api dūrataḥ .. prapūjya pāduke samyaṅmātṝstāśca tataḥ param.. prayāṃti ca parāṃ siddhiṃ janma mṛtyuvivarjitām .. 16 .. > Then, coming there even from afar, / men, having thoroughly worshipped the two wooden sandals and thereafter those Mothers, / go to supreme perfection, freed from birth and death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.17) etasminnaṃtare naṣṭā agniṣṭomādikāḥ kriyāḥ .. tīrthayātrāvratānyeva saṃyamā niyamāśca ye 17 .. > In the meantime, the rites such as the Agniṣṭoma perished, / as did pilgrimages to sacred fords, observances, restraints, and rules. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.18) ye cāpi brāhmaṇāḥ śāṃtāḥ sadā madyasya dūṣaṇam .. prakurvaṃti svahastena te'pi madyaiḥ pṛthagvidhaiḥ .. 18 .. > Even those calm brahmins who always censured wine / themselves, with their own hands, with various kinds of wine > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.19) tarpayaṃti tathā māṃsaistyaktāśeṣamakhakriyāḥ .. pāduke mātṛbhirjuṣṭe tathā dhūpānulepanaiḥ .. 19 .. > gratified \[them\], and with meat, abandoning all sacrificial rites, / \[worshipping\] the two wooden sandals attended by the Mothers, and likewise with incense and ointments. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.20) etasminnaṃtare bhītāḥ sarve devāḥ savāsavāḥ .. dṛṣṭvā yajñakriyocchedaṃ kṣutpipāsā samākulāḥ..6.89.20... > In the meantime, all the gods, along with Indra, were terrified; / seeing the destruction of sacrificial rites, afflicted by hunger and thirst, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.21) procurmaheśvaraṃ gatvā vinayāvanatāḥ sthitāḥ .. stutvā pṛthagvidhaiḥ sūktairvedoktaiḥ śatarudriyaiḥ .. 21 .. > they went to Maheśvara and, standing bowed in humility, / having praised him with various sūktas and with the Śatarudriya uttered in the Veda, spoke. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.22) devā ūcuḥ .. .. hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre pāduke tatra saṃsthite .. aṃbāyā mātṛbhiḥ sārdhaṃ guhāmadhye suguptake .. 22 .. > The gods said: / "In the sacred field of Hāṭakeśvara, the two wooden sandals of Ambā / remain there along with the Mothers in a very secret cave. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.23) brāhmaṇā apideveśa madyamāṃsena bhaktitaḥ .. tābhyāṃ pūjāṃ prakurvaṃti prayāṃti paramāṃ gatim .. 23 .. > Even brahmins, O Lord of the gods, with devotion and using wine and meat, / perform worship to both of them and attain the supreme state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.24) naṣṭā dharmakriyā sarvā martyaloketra sāṃpratam .. asmākaṃ saṃkṣayo jāto yajñabhāgaṃ vinā prabho..24.. > Now all righteous action has perished here in the world of mortals; / our destruction has come about without our sacrificial portion, O Lord! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.25) tasmāttvaṃ kuru deveśa yathā syātpādukākṣayaḥ.. prabhavaṃti makhā bhūmāvasmākaṃ syuḥ parā mudaḥ ..25.. > Therefore, O Lord of the gods, act so that there may be destruction of the wooden sandals, / so that sacrifices may arise on earth and we may have supreme joy." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.26) .. śrībhagavānuvāca .. .. yā sā aṃbeti vikhyātā śaktiḥ sā parameśvarī.. jaganmātā'kṣayā sākṣānmamā pi jananī ca sā .. 26 .. > The Blessed Lord said: / "She who is known as Ambā is the Śakti, the Supreme Sovereign; / she is the Mother of the Universe, imperishable, manifest, and she is my mother too. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.27) tatkathaṃ saṃkṣayastasyāḥ kartuṃ kenāpi śakyate .. manasāpi mahābhāgāḥ pādukānāṃ viśeṣataḥ .. 27 .. > How, then, can destruction of her be accomplished by anyone, / even in thought, O fortunate ones—especially of her wooden sandals? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.28) paraṃ tatra kariṣyāmi sukhopāyaṃ sureśvarāḥ .. yuṣmabhyaṃ pādukāyāṃ ca mahattvaṃ yena jāyate .. 28 .. > However, O rulers of the gods, I shall devise an easy remedy there, / whereby greatness may accrue to you and to the pair of wooden sandals." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.29) evamuktvā tato dhyānaṃ cakre devo maheśvaraḥ .. vyāvṛtyakamalaṃ hṛtsthamaṣṭapatraṃ sakarṇikam .. 29 .. > Having spoken thus, the divine Maheśvara entered into meditation; / unfolding the eight-petaled lotus with its pericarp situated in the heart, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.30) tasyāṃtargatamāsīnamaṃguṣṭhāgramitaṃ śubham .. dvādaśārkaprabhaṃ sūkṣmaṃ svamātmānaṃ vyalokayat .. 6.89.30 .. > he perceived his own self seated within it, auspicious, the measure of a thumb's tip, / subtle, having the radiance of twelve suns. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.31) tasyaivaṃ dhyāyamānasya tṛtīyanayanāttataḥ .. śvetāṃbaradharā śubhrā nirgatā kanyakā śubhā .. 31 .. > As he was thus meditating, from his third eye then / came forth an auspicious, radiant maiden dressed in white garments. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.32) atha sā prāha taṃ devaṃ praṇipatya maheśvaram .. kimarthaṃ deva sṛṣṭāsmi mamādeśaḥ pradīyatām .. 32 .. > Then, bowing down to that god Maheśvara, she said: / "For what purpose, O God, have I been created? Let my command be given!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.33) .. śrībhagavānuvāca .. .. hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre pāduke saṃsthite śubhe .. śrīmāturjagatāṃ mukhye tābhyāṃ pūjāṃ tvamācara .. 33 .. > The Blessed Lord said: / "In the sacred field of Hāṭakeśvara, the two auspicious wooden sandals of the glorious Mother of the worlds, / the foremost one, are situated; do you perform worship to them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.34) kanyakāṃ saṃparityajya tavānvayavivarddhitām.. yaḥ kariṣyati tatpūjāmāhāraḥ syātsa mātṛṣu .. 34 .. > Excepting a maiden born and raised in your lineage, / whoever else performs their worship shall become food for the Mothers. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.35) kaumārabrahmacaryyeṇa tvayāpi ca subhaktitaḥ .. tābhyāṃ pūjā prakartavyā no cennāśamavāpsyasi .. 35 .. > With lifelong celibacy and with great devotion, / worship must be performed by you to the two of them; otherwise you will suffer destruction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.36) tava pūjā kariṣyanti ye narā bhaktitatparāḥ .. mātṝṇāṃ saṃmatāste syuḥ sarvadaiva sukhānvitāḥ .. 36 .. > Those men intent on devotion who will perform your worship / shall be favored by the Mothers and always endowed with happiness." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.37) evamuktvā tatastasyā maṃtramārgaṃ yathocitam .. pūjāmārgaṃ viśeṣeṇa kathayāmāsa vistarāt .. 37. > Having spoken thus, he then explained to her properly the path of mantras / and particularly in detail the path of worship. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.38) tato visarjayāmāsa dattvā chatrādibhūṣaṇam .. pratipattiṃ mahādevastāṃśca sarvānsureśvarān .. 38 .. > Then, having given an umbrella and other ornaments, and honors, / Mahādeva dismissed her and all those rulers of the gods. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.39) .. kumāryuvāca .. .. tvayetatkathitaṃ deva tvadanvayasamudbhavāḥ .. kanyakāḥ pūjayiṣyaṃti pāduke te suśobhane .. 39 .. > The Maiden said: / "O God, you have said this: maidens born of your lineage / shall worship those two very splendid wooden sandals. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.40) kaumārabrahmacaryyeṇa bhaviṣyatyanvayaḥ katham .. etanme vistarātsarvaṃ yathāvadvaktumarhasi .. 6.89.40 .. .. > How will there be a lineage through celibacy from childhood? / You ought to explain all this to me in detail and as it truly is. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.41) .. śrībhagavānuvāca .. .. yasyāyasyāḥ prasannā tvaṃ kanyakāyā vadiṣyasi .. maṃtragrāmamimaṃ samyaktvadbhāvā sā bhaviṣyati .. 41 .. > The Blessed Lord said: / Whichever maiden you, being pleased, speak / this aggregate of mantras to properly, she will become of your nature. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.42) evaṃ cānyā mahābhāge pāraṃparyeṇa kanyakāḥ .. tava vaṃśodbhavāḥ sarvāḥ prabhaviṣyaṃti maṃtrataḥ .. 42 > And in this way, O fortunate lady, other maidens in succession, / all born in your lineage, will arise through the mantra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.43) tataḥ sā tāṃ samāsādya pādukāsaṃbhavāṃ guhām .. pūjāṃ cakre yathānyāyaṃ yathoktaṃ tripurāriṇā .. 43 .. > Then, having reached that cave where the wooden sandals arose, / she performed worship according to rule, just as spoken by the enemy of Tripura. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.44) .. sūta uvāca .. .. tadanvayasamutthāyāḥ kanyakāyāḥ kareṇa yaḥ .. pādukābhyāṃ naraḥ pūjāṃ prakaroti samāhitaḥ .. iha loke sukhaṃ prāpya sa syātpretya sukhānvitaḥ .. 44 .. > Sūta said: / That man who, collected in mind, performs worship of the two sandals / through the hand of a maiden born of her lineage, / having obtained happiness in this world, shall be possessed of happiness after death. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.45) tasmātsarvaprayatnena kanyāhastena pāduke .. pūjanīye viśeṣeṇa pūjyā sā cāpi kanyakā .. 45 .. > Therefore, by every effort, the two sandals are especially to be worshipped / through the hand of a maiden, and that maiden too is to be worshipped, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.46) vāṃchadbhiḥ śāśvataṃ saukhyamiha loke paratra ca .. mānavairbhaktisaṃyuktairityuvāca maheśvaraḥ .. 46 .. > by human beings endowed with devotion who desire eternal happiness / in this world and the next; thus said the Great Lord. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.47) etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ māhātmyaṃ pādukodbhavam .. śrīmāturanuṣaṃgeṇa aṃbādevyā dvijottamāḥ .. 47 .. > This entire māhātmya originating from the sandals has been told to you / in connection with Śrīmātā and Ambādevī, O best of the twice-born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.48) yaścaitacchṛṇuyādbhaktyā caturdaśyāṃ samāhitaḥ .. tathāṣṭamyāṃ viśeṣeṇa sa prāpnoti paraṃ padam .. 48 .. > And whoever hears this with devotion and a concentrated mind on the fourteenth, / and especially on the eighth \[day\], attains the supreme state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [5.89.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89.89) iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ ṣaṣṭhe nāgarakhaṇḍe hāṭakeśvarakṣetramāhātmye śrīmātuḥ pādukāmāhātmavarṇanaṃnāmaikonanavatitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 89 .. > Thus ends the eighty-ninth chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Sandals of Śrīmātā', in the Māhātmya of Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth \[section\], in the glorious 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.5.89.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Viṣvaksenasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.vaisnava.pancaratra.visvaksena.20.333) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.5.89) · Pramāṇa