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# Skandapurana 7.16.24

Skandapurāṇa 7.16.24

- **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..  
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1 evāsma - ka gha. . 2 samupekṣitaḥ - kha . 3 tamabhdhakam (?) . 4 utthitāḥ (?) .  
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- - - - - - - - - - - - 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)

### [7.16.24.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.2)

yaḥ siddhacāraṇaniṣevitacārutoyāṃ gaṅgāṃ mahormirabhasāṃ gaganātpatantīm .  
mūrdhnā dadhe srajamivāpratilolapuṣyāṃ, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .23 ..  
kailāsaśṛṅgaśikharaṃ pravikampyamānaṃ kailāśaśṛṅgasadṛśena daśānanena .  
yaḥ pādapadmaparipīḍanayā dadhāra, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi .. 24. .  
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5 vijñāpayāmāsa - kha . 6 pañca - kha. . 7 śaradaṃ - kha . 8 bhaktyekatānamanaso (?) .  
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yenāsakṛdditisutāśca danoḥ sutāśca9 vidyādharoragagaṇāśca varaissamagrāḥ .  
saṃyojitā munivarāḥ phalamūlabhakṣā,staṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ10 śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi ..25..  
dakṣādhvaraṃ ca nayanañca tathā bhagasya pūṣṇastadā daśanapaṃktimaśātayacca11 .  
vyaṣṭambhayat kuliśayuktamahendrabāhuṃ, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .2 6..  
- kṛ - - trividhabandhavimokṣabhāvā jñānānvayaśrutaguṇairapi naiva yuktāḥ .  
yaṃ saṃśritāḥ sukhabhujaḥ puruṣā bhavanti, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .27..  
agre mṛtasya ravikoṭisamānatejaḥ12 santrāsanaṃ vibudhasattamadānavānām13 .  
yaḥ kālakūṭamapibat samudīrṇavegaṃ, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi ..28 ..  
brahmendraviṣṇumarutāṃ ca saṣaṇmukhānāṃ yodād varān subahuśo bhagavānmaheśaḥ .  
nandiñca mṛtyuvadanātprabhurujjahāra,14 taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi ..29..  
kāmaśca kārmukadharo bhuvi pañcabāṇo hāsyātkṛto bhagavatā sa tadā videhaḥ .  
ekeṣuṇā tripurameva purā jaghāna, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .8.155.3 0 ..

> ‘Who bore upon his head, like a garland of motionless flowers, the Gaṅgā, whose lovely waters are visited by Siddhas and Cāraṇas, / rushing down from the sky with the violent speed of huge waves—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 23  
> Who, by pressing down with his lotus-foot, steadied the summit of Kailāsa’s peak / as it was violently shaken by the Ten-faced one, who resembled a peak of Kailāsa—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 24  
> By whom the sons of Diti, the sons of Danu, the hosts of Vidyādharas and Uragas, / and the best of munis subsisting on fruits and roots, were repeatedly joined with complete boons—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 25  
> Who destroyed the sacrifice of Dakṣa, and likewise the eye of Bhaga, and the row of teeth of Pūṣan, / and paralyzed the thunderbolt-wielding arm of mighty Indra—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 26  
> \[…\] having the state of release from the threefold bondage, though not endowed with the qualities of knowledge, lineage, and sacred learning, / people who resort to whom become enjoyers of happiness—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 27  
> Who drank the Kālakūṭa poison of surging fury, which had the radiance equal to ten million suns \[…\], / the terror of the best of gods and Dānavas—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 28  
> Who, the divine Maheśa, bestowed boons abundantly upon Brahmā, Indra, Viṣṇu, the Maruts, and him with six faces, / and, the Lord, snatched Nandin from the jaws of death—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 29  
> And by whom, the Lord, Kāma, holding a bow with five arrows on earth, was then made bodiless through laughter, / who in ancient times destroyed Tripura with a single arrow—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 30 //’  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.16.24.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.3)

ārādhitaḥ sutapasā himavannikuñje dhūmavratena manasāpi parairagamye .  
sañjīvanīmadita yaḥ paramārthagamya15 stasmai namaḥ śivakarāya śivāya nityam ..3 1 . . nānāvidhairgajaviḍālasamānavaktrairdakṣādhvarapramathanairvalibhirgaṇaindraiḥ16 .  
yobhyarcyatemaragaṇaḥ sahalokapālai,staṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .32..  
krīḍārthameva bhagavān bhuvanāni sapta nānānadīvihagapādapamaṇḍitāni .  
sabrahmakāni sasṛje sukṛtehitāni, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .3 3 . .  
yasyākhilaṃ jagadidaṃ vaśavarti nityaṃ yoṣṭābhireva tanubhirbhuvanāni bhuṃkte .  
yaḥ kāraṇaṃ sumahatāmapi kāraṇānāṃ, taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi ..34. .  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - āsajya māṃ kṣitidharendrasutānuyāta .  
- - - - - - - ma vibhūṣaṇāṅgaṃ taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ17 śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . .3 5..  
śvetaṃ muniṃ yamaniyogaparāyaṇaistairbhīmairmahograpuruṣaiḥ pratinīyamānam .  
baddhvā - - - - - - - - - - - - taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi .. 36 ..  
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9 danośca putrā - kha . 10 śaraṇajaṃ - kha . 11 śca - kha., maśātayadya (?) . 12 samānatejaṃ - kha. . 13 vibudhadānavasattamānāṃ (?) . 14.. tpunarājahāra - kha. . 15 paramārthagabhyaṃ - kha. . 16.. rgajendraiḥ - kha. . 17 śaraṇajaṃ - kha. .  
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- - - - - - - - paricintyamānaṃ taṃ śaṅkaraṃ śaraṇadaṃ śaraṇaṃ vrajāmi . . 38 . .  
- - - - - - - - - - - vimūḍhā, jānanti nāsya jagato bhavabandharūpāḥ .

> Propitiated by great austerity in an icy mountain bower, through the vow of consuming smoke, by one unreachable even in mind by others, / he who granted the Sañjīvanī \[vidyā\], accessible only through supreme truth—to that benevolent Śiva homage ever be! // 31  
> By diverse chiefs of gaṇas, having faces resembling elephants and cats, crushers of Dakṣa’s sacrifice, powerful, / and by the hosts of gods accompanied by the guardians of the world, he is worshiped; to that Śaṃkara, grantor of refuge, I go for refuge. // 32  
> For mere sport the Lord created the seven worlds adorned with varied rivers, birds, and trees, / together with Brahmā, accompanied by auspicious endeavors; to that Śaṃkara, grantor of refuge, I go for refuge. // 33  
> Under whose mastery this whole universe continually abides, who through his eight bodies alone enjoys the worlds, / who is the cause even of the greatest causes; to that Śaṃkara, grantor of refuge, I go for refuge. // 34  
> \[…\] attaching me, followed by the daughter of the king of mountains, / \[…\] having ornaments on his limbs, to that Śaṃkara, grantor of refuge, I go for refuge. // 35  
> When the sage Śveta was being carried away by those fierce, most terrifying attendants devoted to the command of Yama, / having bound \[…\] to that Śaṃkara, grantor of refuge, I go for refuge. // 36  
> \[…\] // 37  
> \[…\] being meditated upon, to that Śaṃkara, grantor of refuge, I go for refuge. // 38  
> \[…\] deluded, they do not know \[him\] who forms the bondage of worldly existence for this world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.16.24.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.4)

aiśvaryadoṣaviṣaye - - - bhibaddhā, niryātamādyanubhavanti yathāhameva . .3 9.. .  
- - - - prasādāddhi - - - - - stadā .  
śubhakarmā - - - - śivalokamakalpayaḥ18 (?) ..8.155.40 . .  
sanatkumāra uvāca  
tasyaivaṃ stuvato devaḥ śūlapāṇirvṛṣadhvajaḥ .  
pūrṇe varṣasahasre tu prītaḥ provāca śaṅkaraḥ . .41 . .  
putra tuṣṭosmi bhadraṃ te jātastvaṃ nirmalodhunā .  
divyaṃ dadāmi te cakṣuḥ paśya māṃ dānaveśvara . .42 . .  
- - - - - yatkiñcit kāṃkṣitaṃ phalamuttamam .  
tatsarvameva dāsyāmi brūhi dānavasattama . .43 . .  
brāhmaṃ vaiṣṇavamaindraṃ vā padaṃ vibudhadurlabham .  
athavā sarvalokānāṃ bhava rājā yathā purā . .44. .  
andhaka uvāca  
brāhmaṃ vaiṣṇavamaindrañca padamāvṛttilakṣaṇam .  
viditaṃ mama tatsarvaṃ manasāpi - - . .45. .  
yadi tuṣṭosi deveśa gāṇapatyaṃ vidhatsva me .  
aviśeṣyaṃ viśuddhañca tadakṣayyaṃ ca sarvadā . .46 . .  
devadeva uvāca  
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- - - - - - - - sarvalokanamaskṛtaḥ . .47. .  
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18.. mayam - kha .  
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804  
kāmarūpī mahāyogī sahāsatvo mahābalaḥ .  
aṇimādiguṇairyuktaḥ priyaḥ puruṣasattamaḥ . .48 . .  
sanatkumāra uvāca  
tato - - - varaṃ dattvā sudurlabham .  
mahādevaḥ. bhūtvā tatraivāntaradhīyata . .49 . .  
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. . 8.155.50 . .  
vareṇyaṃ varadaṃ devaṃ brahmaṇyamamitaujasam .  
āgatya caiva - - - - - - - - - - - . . 51 . .  
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- - śūlaṃ - - paramaṃ vikramaiḥ stambhayitvā .  
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> Bound \[…\] in the realm of the faults of sovereignty, they experience destruction and \[delusion\] just as I did. // 39  
> \[…\] for by the grace \[…\] then. / Having performed auspicious deeds \[…\] you fashioned the realm of Śiva \[…\] // 8.155.40  
> Sanatkumāra said:  
> While he was thus praising, the God holding the trident in his hand, whose banner is the bull, / Śaṃkara, pleased at the end of a thousand years, spoke: // 41  
> “O son, I am pleased, welfare unto you; you have now become free of taint. / I bestow divine vision upon you; behold me, O lord of the Dānavas! // 42  
> \[…\] whatever excellent fruit is desired, / I shall grant all of that; speak, O best of the Dānavas: // 43  
> Whether the state of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, or Indra, difficult for gods to attain, / or else become the king of all the worlds as of old.” // 44  
> Andhaka said:  
> “The states of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Indra are characterized by return \[to worldly rebirth\]; / all that is known to me, even in mind \[…\]. // 45  
> If you are pleased, O Lord of the gods, bestow upon me leadership among the gaṇas, / which is beyond distinction, utterly pure, and forever imperishable.” // 46  
> Devadeva said:  
> “\[…\] worshiped by all the worlds, // 47  
> assuming forms at will, a great yogin, endowed with noble courage, possessed of great strength, / endowed with the qualities of lightness and the rest, beloved, the best of persons.” // 48  
> Sanatkumāra said:  
> Then \[…\] having granted that very rare boon, / Mahādeva \[…\] having become \[…\], vanished right there. // 49  
> \[…\] // 8.155.50  
> Approaching the most desirable, boon-granting God, well-disposed to brahmins, of boundless splendor, / and having arrived \[…\] // 51  
> \[…\] // 52  
> \[…\] having paralyzed the supreme trident through heroic feats, / \[…\] // 53  
> \[…\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.16.24.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.5)

-.. ' ' ' ' ' - - - - - - - - . . 54. . .  
' ' ' ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - vāṅmanobhiḥ . . 55. .  
yenye kuśāstramalapaṅkavimagnadehā mokṣepyatastava vibho caraṇā - - - .  
te vo - - - - .. - - - stuvanti mūḍhā mṛgā iva vane mṛgatṛṣṇikābhiḥ . .56. .  
- - ṅkuśaṅkitataṭe smṛti - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .  
- - - - - - - - - - pyaṭena pūṣā19 karoti vimalaṃ kiraṇaughajālaiḥ . . 57..  
pakṣe tapaścarati yena kalāvaśeṣaścandropi te haratavottamapādamūle .  
naktaṃ tu śūlahasitai rajamīmukhāni sampūrṇamaṇḍalavapurdhavalīkaroti .. 58. .  
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19 karokaro - kha. .  
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- ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - vasavo marutośvinau ca .  
bhṛgvādayaśca ṛṣayastatra deva siddhāḥ20 siddhiṃ gatāścaraṇapadmavaraprasādāt . . 8.155.60 . .  
kailāsa - - - - - - - - rdravāya devāya - - layalāṅkitamekhalāya21 .  
badghvāsanaṃ paramamunnatacārumūrtiṃ yogeśvaraṃ dibhumahad bhuvanasya bhūtyai . .61 . .  
- - - - - sāsi pūrva22madṛṣṭapūrvā sā sā spṛhāṃ prakuraṣe mahatīṃ janasya .  
tasmājjaṭendurivajā(?) rdhaśarīrayogād gaṅgāṃ ca23 deva bhajase tvamapūrvavattām ..62..  
- - - - - - - - śīrṇa - - - saṃsthaiḥ samyagvareśvararuṣā sadasograkaṇṭha (?) .  
te deva lokavijayaṃ tava deva yāvad duṣṭasya vaktrakamalāni niveditāni . .63 . .  
kailāsamerumalayodaramandareṣu vidyādharairmunimahoragakinnaraiśca .  
abhyarcyase kula - ṭāyana - - - - - - - - - - - - madhurairvacobhiḥ . . 64. .  
- - - - - - ye - bhaktyā sarva - - - - - - majaraṃ - - - mātmavedyam .

> \[…\] // 54  
> \[…\] with speech and mind. // 55  
> Those who have their bodies immersed in the impure mud of the Kuśa weapons, even in \[their quest for\] liberation, O Lord, your feet \[…\] / they \[…\] deluded, praise \[…\], like deer in the forest led astray by mirages. // 56  
> \[…\] on the bank marked with \[…\] memory \[…\] / \[…\] through his wandering the sun makes it spotless with streams of rays. // 57  
> For a fortnight, through which the moon has only a single digit left, he performs austerity at the base of your excellent feet, O Hara; / at night, however, with the laughter of your trident, his body forming a full disc, he whitens the faces of the quarters. // 58  
> \[…\] the Vasus, the Maruts, and the two Aśvins, / and the seers headed by Bhṛgu, O God, and the siddhas there attained perfection through the grace of the boon of your lotus feet. // 8.155.60  
> To the God on Kailāsa \[…\] having a girdle marked with \[…\] / having assumed the supreme posture, possessing an exalted, beautiful form, the Lord of yoga \[…\] for the welfare of the world. // 61  
> \[…\] you are unprecedented; being unseen before, she arouses great desire in people; / therefore, like the moon in the matted locks, from the union of half the body, you, O God, resort to the Gaṅgā possessing novelty. // 62  
> \[…\] through the anger of the Lord of boons \[…\] fierce-throated, / so long as the lotus-like faces of the wicked one were offered for your conquest of the worlds, O God. // 63  
> In Kailāsa, Meru, the interior of Malaya, and Mandara, by Vidyādharas, sages, great serpents, and Kinnaras, / you are worshiped \[…\] with sweet words. // 64  
> \[…\] who with devotion \[…\] ageless \[…\] to be known by the self.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.16.24.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.16.24.6)

paśyanti satvamacalāstava yogadṛṣṭyā tvāmeva te śiva viśantyanivartanāya ..65. .  
vidyāvayo - sya sametya śaktāstejaḥsṛjāśugamita - - - - - - - - - .  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -2 4 .. 66. . ..  
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ra pā va - ya - ..68. .  
dakṣādhvarassuravaraiḥ kṛtasarvarakṣo bhṛgvādibhirmunivarairupagītavedaḥ .  
krodhodbhavena tava deva hatassalīlamekena śūlavaracakrabhṛtā gaṇena . . 69. .  
liṅgasya yo hara hariḥ pra - - hyadhastādūrdhvantvahaṃ - - - - - - - brubāṇaḥ .  
- - - - - ravandatavādimadhye konyaḥ pravīṇa iha vakṣyati25 telpabuddhiḥ . .8.155.70 . .  
śarvosi sarvagatasasarvaphalapradosi yogosi yogadhara yogavidāṃ varosi .  
mātāpitāsi jagataḥ prabhuravyayosi śāntaḥ śivosi paramosi śivaṅkarosi . .71 . .  
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20 siddhiṃ - kha . 21 lāñchita (?) . : 22... ya - kha . 23 ya- kha. . 24

> The unswerving behold your true nature by the vision of yoga; / they enter into you alone, O Śiva, never to return.  
> Having gathered \[their powers\] … capable in knowledge and age, driven swiftly by the creator of splendor …  
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> Dakṣa’s sacrifice, whose every defense was raised by the foremost of gods, whose Vedic songs were chanted by the chief sages led by Bhṛgu, / was playfully destroyed, O God, by a single attendant of yours born of your wrath, bearing a superb trident and a discus.  
> Of whose liṅga, O Hara, Hari \[descended\] below …, / while I, claiming \[to reach\] the top, …  
> \[…\] in the midst of disputants; who else here, being feeble-minded, can speak \[adequately\] of you?  
> You are Śarva; you are all-pervading; you bestow all fruits; / you are yoga; you sustain yoga; you are foremost among knowers of yoga;  
> you are mother and father of the world; you are the imperishable lord; / you are peaceful; you are Śiva; you are the supreme; you are the source of auspiciousness.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.16.24.1) — English, machine translation

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