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# Skandapurana 7.18.2\_23

Skandapurāṇa 7.18.2\_23

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.18.2\_23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.18.2_23)

sadṛśaṃ karma naitatte33 manmayasya sutasya te34 .  
brūhi vā sāmprataṃ karma kimatra bahu manyase ..48. .  
tamevaṃ vādinaṃ devaṃ35 ṣaṇmukhaḥ pitaraṃ tadā .  
idaṃ provāca savrīḍaṃ vacanaṃ paramādbhutam . .49..

> This action does not befit you, my son, who are composed of myself. / Or tell me now: what action do you value so much in this?” // 48 // / When the god had spoken thus to him, the six-faced one then / addressed this shy and truly astonishing word to his father: // 49  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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