Skandapurana 7.13.3_123

7.13.3_123

9 vaṃśajaṃ - ka, vaṃśajāṃ - kha. .
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ya imaṃ pṛthivībhāvaṃ kaśyapasya mahāmuneḥ .
pṛthivyāgamanañcaiva punarbhāvaṃ tathaiva ca . . 16 ..
śṛṇuyātpaṭhate vāpi śucirbhūtvā sadaiva hi .
sa labhetākṣayām̐llokān10 pṛthivīphalameva ca11 . .17..
tāṃ sarvalokaprabhavāmanekaśo mune12 praṇamyeha sadā narottamaḥ .
prakīrttayedyo vasudhāṃ vasupradāṃ sa lokamāpnoti ṛṣerathākṣayam . . 18..
iti skandapurāṇe kaśyapasya pṛthivībhāvo nāma caturviṃśottaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ13

Whoever, having purified himself, always hears or reads this: / the great sage Kaśyapa's becoming the earth, / and the earth's return, and her restoration, / shall obtain imperishable worlds and the fruit of the earth. (16–17) / Constantly bowing down here to her, the source of all the worlds, O sage, / the best of men who proclaims the wealth-giving earth obtains the imperishable world of the seer. (18) / Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-fourth chapter, entitled 'Kaśyapa's Becoming the Earth', in the Skandapurāṇa.