Skandapurana 7.16.24.1

7.16.24.1

tāndṛṣṭvā vidrutān sarvān gaṇān saha sureśvaraiḥ .
mahādevosṛjat - - - - - - - - - - ..1 2..
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1 evāsma - ka gha. . 2 samupekṣitaḥ - kha . 3 tamabhdhakam (?) . 4 utthitāḥ (?) .
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- vā vijñāpayāmāsu5rājñāṃ no dātumarhasi . . 13 . .
devadevastadā prāha sarvāḥ praharaṇodyatāḥ .
asṛgbindusamudbhūtān bhakṣayadhvaṃ mahāsurān . . 14..
evamuktāstu tāssarvā yogeśvaryo mahābalāḥ .
hatvā hatvāsurān yuddhe cakhāduśca ma . 15. .
devopi jvalitaṃ śūlamabravīdandhakāntakṛt .
andhakaṃ paca6 sūryāgnau sahasra śaradāṃ7 śatam . .1 6. .
andhakopi hi śūlāgre pacyamānorkatejasā .
pūrṇe sahasre varṣāṇāṃ sātvikaṃ bhāvamabhyagāt . . 17. .
sātvikaṃ bhāvamāpanno vinirdhūtarajastamaḥ .
lokānāṃ kāraṇaṃ devaṃ bubudhe govṛṣadhvajam . . 18..
taṃ buddhvā ca tato bhaktyā nirmalenāntarātmanā .
snāyvasthiśeṣastuṣṭāva devaṃ caṃdrārdhamaulinam . 1 9. .
andhaka uvāca
kṛtsnasya yosya jagataḥ sacarācarasya kartā kṛtasya ca tathā sukhaduḥkhadātā .
saṃhāraheturapi yaḥ punarantakāle, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .8.155.2 0 . .
yaṃ yogino vigatamohatamorajaskā bhaktyaikatānamanaso8 vinivṛttakāmāḥ .
dhyāyanti niścitadhiyāmitadivyabhāvaṃ, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi ..21 ..
yaścandrakhaṇḍamamalaṃ vikasanmayūkhaṃ badhvāsayaṃ (?) priyatayā śirasā bibharti .
yaścārdhadehamadadād girirājaputryai, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi ..2 2 ..

Seeing all the gaṇas, along with the lords of the gods, fleeing, / Mahādeva created […] // 12
[…] then […], / […] addressed [him]: ‘You ought to give us an order.’ // 13
Then the God of gods said to all those [goddesses] ready with weapons: / ‘Consume the great asuras born from the drops of blood!’ // 14
Thus addressed, all those Yogeśvarīs of mighty strength, / continually slaying the asuras in battle, ate [them] […]. // 15
The God also, the slayer of Andhaka, spoke to the blazing trident: / ‘Cook Andhaka in the fire of the sun for a hundred thousand autumns.’ // 16
Indeed, as Andhaka was being cooked at the tip of the trident by the sun’s radiance, / when a thousand years were completed, he attained a sattvic state. // 17
Having attained a sattvic state, with passion and darkness shaken off, / he understood the God, the cause of the worlds, whose banner bears the bull. // 18
Having recognized him then with devotion, with a purified inner self, / reduced to mere sinews and bones, he praised the God whose crest is the crescent moon. // 19
Andhaka said: / ‘He who is the creator of this entire universe, moving and unmoving, and likewise the dispenser of pleasure and pain for what has been done, / who is also the cause of destruction at the time of the end—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 20
Whom yogins, free from delusion, darkness, and passion, their minds singularly intent through devotion, their desires vanished, / meditate upon with resolute intellect, whose divine nature is boundless—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 21
Who lovingly bears upon his head the spotless crescent moon with blossoming beams […] / and who gave half his body to the daughter of the king of mountains—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 22 //’