Skandapurana 6.2.9.32

6.2.9.32

.. śrīrudra uvāca .. ..
svargadvāreśvaraṃ liṃgaṃ navamaṃ viddhi pārvati ..
sarvapāpaharaṃ devi svargamokṣaphalapradam .. 1 ..
yadā devi samāyātāḥ kailāse parvatottame ..
aśvinyādyā bhaginyastāstvāṃ dṛṣṭvā vismayānvitāḥ .. 2 ..
nimaṃtritā vayaṃ yajñe sakāṃtāḥ saparigrahāḥ ..
snehena devi tātena bahumānapuraḥ saram .. 3 ..
kaccitsmṛtā viśālākṣi kiṃ vā tātasya vismṛtiḥ ..
kāraṇaṃ kiṃ samuddiśya tātena na nimaṃtritā .. 4 ..
tāsāṃ tadvacanaṃ śrutvā avamā nāttadā tvayā ..
prāṇā muktāstu yogena puratastāsu pārvati ..5..
atha tāḥ śokasaṃtaptā gatā yatra prajāpatiḥ..
ācakhyuḥ sakalaṃ vṛttaṃ dakṣasyāgre yathā tatham ..6..
tacchutvā dāruṇaṃ vākyaṃ dakṣo novāca kiṃcana ..7..
mayā dṛṣṭā yadā devi bhūmau paṃcatvamāgatā ..
yajñapradhvaṃsanārthāya tadā vai preritā gaṇāḥ.. ..8..
te gatvātha gaṇā raudrāḥ śataśo'tha sahasraśaḥ ..
virūpā bhīṣaṇā raudrā nānāśastrā mahābalāḥ ..
mumucuḥ śaravarṣāṇi kurvaṃto bhairavānravān .. 9 ..
tato devagaṇāḥ sarve vasavaḥ saha bhāskaraiḥ ..
viśvedevāśca sādhyāśca dhanurhastā mahābalāḥ ..5.2.9.1 0..
yuddhāya ca viniṣkrāṃtā mumucuḥ sāyakānsitān ..
te sametyātha yuyudhuḥ pramathā vibudhaiḥ saha ..
mumucuḥ śaravarṣāṇi vāridhārā yathā ghanāḥ .. 11 ..
teṣāṃ madhye gaṇo nāma vīrabhadro mahābalaḥ ..
sa śakraṃ tāḍayāmāsa śūlena hṛdaye tathā .. 12 ..
sa tu tena prahāreṇa visaṃjño niṣasāda ha ..
atha muṣṭyā hataḥ kumbhe nāga airāvatastathā ..13..
sa hataḥ sahasā tena gajeṃdro bheravānravān ..
vinadanbhayamāsthāya yajñavāṭamupādravat .. 14 ..
etasminnaṃtare devā kṛtāstena parāṅmukhāḥ ..
tataste śaraṇaṃ jagmurviṣṇuṃ viśvaikanāyakam .. 15 ..
tataḥ kopasamāviṣṭo viṣṇurdṛṣṭvā divālayān ..
gaṇairvidrāvitānsarvānmumocāśu sudarśanam .. 16 ..
tadāpatattu vegena cakraṃ viṣṇoḥ sudarśanam ..
prasārya vaktraṃ sahasā hyudarasthaṃ cakāra ha .. 17 ..
tasmiṃścakre tadā graste hyamoghe daityasūdane ..
kruddho nārāyaṇo devi vīrabhadramupādravat .. 18 ..
gṛhītvā pādayorbhūmau nijaghānātidūrataḥ ..
hanyamānasyātha bhūmau gadayā ca sudarśanam .. 19 ..
rudhirodgārasaṃyuktaṃ vaktrāttacca vinirgatam ..
matto labdhavaro devi vīrabhadro gaṇottamaḥ ..
na tu paṃcatvamāpanno gadayā tāḍito'pi saḥ .. 5.2.9.20 ..
tatastu pramathāḥ sarve viṣṇuvīryabalārdditāḥ ..
kṛcchreṇa sahasā prāptā yatrāhaṃ devi saṃsthitaḥ .. 21 ..
māṃ dṛṣṭvā śūlahastaṃ tu viṣṇuścāṃtaradhīyata ..
iṃdro'pi tridaśaiḥ sārddhaṃ pitṛbhirbrāhmaṇaiḥ saha .. 22 ..
mattastrāsaparītātmā tataścādarśanaṃ gataḥ ..
evaṃ vidhvaṃsite yajñe naṣṭo devagaṇo yadā .. 23 ..
mayā nirūpito devi svargadvāre gaṇastadā ..
praveśo naiva dātavyastridaśānāṃ gaṇeśvara .. 24 ..
dvārāvarodhaḥ karttavyo yatnataḥ śāsanānmama ..
yaḥ kopi dṛśyate devaḥ sa haṃtavyo na saṃśayaḥ .. 25 ..
udvasaśca tato jātaḥ svargo devā vinirjitāḥ ..26..
svargadvāre niruddhe tu śakrādyā bhayavihvalāḥ..
brahmalokaṃ gatā devā maṃtrayitvā punaḥpunaḥ .. 27 ..
tasyāgre kathitaṃ sarvaṃ svargadvārāvarodhanam ..
maheśvaragaṇairvyāptaṃ svargadvāraṃ pitāmaha .. 28 ..
praveśo durlabho jātaḥ kṛte dvārāvarodhane ..
kenopāyena yāsyāmaḥ svargalokaṃ tathāvidham 29 ..
nāsmākaṃ jāyate prītirvinā svargaṃ pitāmaha .. .. 5.2.9.30 ..
iti teṣāṃ vacaḥ śrutvā proktaṃ tu brahmaṇā tadā ..
ārādhyaḥ śaṃkaro devo mahādevo jagatpatiḥ .. 31 ..
stutyo vaṃdyo namaskāryaḥ sṛṣṭi saṃhārakārakaḥ ..
durlabhastu surāḥ svargo vinā tasya prasādataḥ .. 32

The venerable Rudra said: / Know the ninth liṅga to be Svargadvāreśvara, O Pārvatī, / which removes all sins, O goddess, and bestows heaven and liberation as its fruit. / When those sisters, beginning with Aśvinī, came / to the supreme mountain Kailāsa, O goddess, they were filled with wonder upon seeing you: / 'We have been invited to the sacrifice together with our husbands and retinues / out of affection by our father, O goddess, with great honour. / Were you remembered, O large-eyed one, or did father forget you? / For what reason were you not invited by our father?' / Hearing those words of theirs, you, out of dishonour, / then gave up your life-breaths through yoga before them, O Pārvatī. / Then, burning with grief, they went to where the lord of creatures was / and reported the whole incident before Dakṣa just as it had happened. / Hearing those terrible words, Dakṣa said nothing at all. / When I saw you fallen on the ground having succumbed to death, O goddess, / the gaṇas were then dispatched to destroy the sacrifice. / Having gone there, those fierce gaṇas, by the hundreds and thousands, / misshapen, terrifying, frightful, bearing various weapons and of great strength, / released showers of arrows while making ferocious roars. / Then all the hosts of gods, the Vasus together with the suns, / the Viśvedevas and the Sādhyas, bows in hand, possessing great might, / marched forth to battle and unleashed sharp shafts. / Meeting there, the Pramathas fought with the gods; / they released showers of arrows like clouds discharging streams of water. / In their midst, a gaṇa of great might named Vīrabhadra / struck Śakra in the heart with a trident. / Rendered unconscious by that blow, he sank down. / Then the elephant Airāvata was struck on the frontal globes with a fist; / struck suddenly by him, that king of elephants, roaring with ferocious cries / and seized with fear, rushed towards the sacrificial enclosure. / In the meantime, the gods were routed by him; / then they sought refuge with Viṣṇu, the sole leader of the universe. / Then, filled with rage upon seeing the gods / all put to flight by the gaṇas, Viṣṇu quickly released the Sudarśana. / As that Sudarśana discus of Viṣṇu came hurtling with speed, / [Vīrabhadra] opened his mouth and suddenly swallowed it into his stomach. / When that unfailing discus, destroyer of the Daityas, was thus swallowed, / Nārāyaṇa, enraged, O goddess, rushed at Vīrabhadra. / Seizing him by both feet, he hurled him down to the ground from far away; / and as he was being struck on the ground with a mace, the Sudarśana, / accompanied by gouts of blood, issued forth from his mouth. / Having received a boon from me, O goddess, that best of gaṇas, Vīrabhadra, / did not succumb to death even though struck with the mace. / Then all the Pramathas, distressed by the power and might of Viṣṇu, / arrived with difficulty, suddenly, where I was staying, O goddess. / Seeing me with trident in hand, Viṣṇu vanished. / Indra too, together with the thirty [gods], with the ancestors and the brahmins, / his heart seized with terror of me, vanished from sight. / When the sacrifice had thus been destroyed and the host of gods was lost, / a gaṇa was then stationed by me at the gate of heaven, O goddess: / 'Entrance must never be granted to the thirty [gods], O lord of gaṇas! / A blockage of the gate must be vigilantly maintained by my command. / Whichever god is seen must undoubtedly be slain.' / And then heaven became deserted, and the gods were utterly defeated. / But when the gate of heaven was blocked, Śakra and the others, bewildered by fear, / consulted again and again and went to the world of Brahmā. / Before him, the entire blockage of heaven's gate was reported: / 'The gate of heaven is occupied by the gaṇas of the Great Lord, O grandfather! / Entrance has become difficult to obtain now that the gate is blocked. / By what means shall we go to the world of heaven as before? / We have no joy without heaven, O grandfather!' / Hearing these words of theirs, it was then spoken by Brahmā: / 'Lord Śaṃkara, the Great God, the master of the world, must be propitiated; / he, the maker of creation and destruction, is to be praised, revered, and saluted. / Difficult to attain is heaven, O gods, without his favor.