[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) › 7.16.24.1 # Skandapurana 7.16.24.1 Skandapurāṇa 7.16.24.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.16.24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.1) tāndṛṣṭvā vidrutān sarvān gaṇān saha sureśvaraiḥ . mahādevosṛjat - - - - - - - - - - ..1 2.. - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - 1 evāsma - ka gha. . 2 samupekṣitaḥ - kha . 3 tamabhdhakam (?) . 4 utthitāḥ (?) . - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - 801 - - - - - - - - - - - - karantadā . - 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 //’ > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.16.11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.11.6) - [Next: 7.16.24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.2) - [Up: 7.16.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.16.24.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.1) · Pramāṇa