Skandapurana 6.1.26.53.2

6.1.26.53.2

śrāddhaṃ kṛtvā mahākālaṃ natvā ceśānamīśvaram ..
piṃgaleśaṃ tataḥ prāpya snātvā śrāddhaṃ samācaret .. 15 ..
upagamya tato devaṃ gaṇeśaṃ piṃgaleśvaram ..
gandhaiḥ puṣpaiśca dhūpaiśca tamabhyarcya nivartayet .. 16 ..
mahākāleśvaraṃ prāpya bhūyaḥ snāto jiteṃdriyaḥ ..
arcayeddevadeveśaṃ svayaṃbhuvaṃ sanātanam .. 17 ..
īśāne gamayedrātriṃ kṛtvā vai naktabhojanam ..
dhyāyamāno maheśānaṃ bhūmau vinyasya vigraham .. 18 ..
dvādaśyāṃ pūrvavatsarvaṃ prātaḥ snātvā vrajennaraḥ ..
kāyāvarohaṇaṃ gatvā piṃgaleśvaravadyajet .. 19 ..
trayodaśyāmathāpyevaṃ bilveśaṃ paścime'rcayet ..
caturdaśyāṃ tathā saumye pūjayeduttareśvaram .. 5.1.26.20 ..
amāvāsyāṃ śuciḥ snāto mahākāleśvaraṃ yajet ..
gandhaiḥ puṣpaiśca dhūpaiśca naivedyairvividhaistathā .. 21 ..
gītanṛtyādikaṃ kṛtvā praṇipatya kṣamāpayet ..
yātrāṃ kṛtvā tu pūrvoktāṃ tato nijagṛhaṃ vrajet .. 22 ..
brāhmaṇānbhojayetpañca śivabhaktiparāyaṇān ..
praṇamya devatārūpānmahākāloṣitāndvijān .. 23 ..
pūjayitvā hiraṇyena sūkṣmavastraguṇairnavaiḥ ..
rathaṃ piṃgalake dadyādgajaṃ kāyāvarohaṇe .. 24 ..
dattvā bilveśvare cāśvaṃ vṛṣaṃ dattvā tu cottare ..
dhenuṃ dattvā mahākāle sarvopaskarasaṃyutam .. 25 ..
ya evaṃ kurute vyāsa tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu .. 26 ..
pitṛkairmātṛkaiḥ sārdhaṃ kulaiḥ sa divi modate ..
apsarogītanṛtyādyairvimānaiḥ sārvakāmikaiḥ .. 27 .. ..
iti paṃceśānīyātrāmāhātmyam .. ..
yastu pradakṣiṇāṃ kuryānniyamena kuśasthalīm ..
pradakṣiṇīkṛtā tena saptadvīpā vasundharā .. 28 ..
yastu padmāvatīṃ paśyeddarcayetpaṃkajairnaraḥ ..

having performed the śrāddha and bowed to Mahākāla and the lord Īśāna, / having then gone to Piṅgaleśa and bathed, he should perform the śrāddha. // 15
Then approaching the god Piṅgaleśvara, who is the lord of Gaṇas, / having worshipped him with perfumes, flowers, and incense, he should depart. // 16
Having reached Mahākāleśvara, bathed again and with senses conquered, / he should worship the eternal, self-manifest lord of the gods of gods. // 17
He should spend the night in the northeast after taking an evening meal, / meditating on Maheśāna, resting his body upon the ground. // 18
On the twelfth day, having bathed in the morning, the man should perform everything as before; / having gone to Kāyāvarohaṇa, he should worship as at Piṅgaleśvara. // 19
Then, in the same way on the thirteenth day, he should worship Bilveśa in the west; / on the fourteenth day likewise he should worship Uttareśvara in the north. // 20
On the new moon day, pure and bathed, he should worship Mahākāleśvara / with perfumes, flowers, incenses, and various offerings of food. // 21
Having performed singing, dancing, and the like, bowing down he should beg forgiveness; / and having performed the pilgrimage mentioned before, he should then go to his own home. // 22
He should feed five brahmins devoted to the worship of Śiva; / having bowed down to those twice-born residing at Mahākāla, who are the forms of deities, // 23
and worshipped them with gold and new garments made of fine threads, / he should give a chariot at Piṅgalaka, and an elephant at Kāyāvarohaṇa. // 24
Having given a horse at Bilveśvara, and a bull in the north, / and having given a cow furnished with all accessories at Mahākāla— // 25
he who does this thus, O Vyāsa, hear the meritorious fruit for him! // 26
Together with his paternal and maternal lines, he rejoices in heaven / with singing and dancing of apsarases, in aerial chariots that fulfill all desires. // 27
Thus ends the praise of the pilgrimage to the five Īśānas.
He who circumambulates Kuśasthalī with fixed vows / has circumambulated the earth with its seven continents. // 28
That man who beholds Padmāvatī and worships her with lotuses,