Skandapurana 7.18.89_92

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varaṃ tattvamathānveṣṭuṃ guṇātītamajaṃ śivam .
sākṣād bhagavataḥ śiṣyaṃ32 kapilasyāsuriṃ munim ..8.172.60 ..
śiṣyatvenopasaṃgamya mokṣavidyāmavāptavān33 .
prakṛtīnāṃ paraṃ tattvaṃ vikārāṇāṃ paraṃ tathā .. 61 ..
kṣetrajñaṃ puruṣaṃ jñātvā bhoktāraṃ bhoktṛvarjitam .
mokṣavidyāparārthajñaḥ sāṃkhyasiddhāntapāragaḥ . .62 ..
siddhaḥ pañcaśikho nāmnā sobhavanmunisattama34 .
sa yogaṃ35 paramaṃ labdhvā sāṃkhyācāryo mahāmuniḥ .
duḥkhatrayavinirmuktaḥ prāptavān padamavyayam . .63 ..
śrīmānevaṃ tribhuvanaripurdaityarājo mahātmā
kṛtvā vairaṃ vibudhaguruṇā viṣṇunā dīrghakālam .
siddhaḥ paścājjagadabhayadaḥ prāptayogaśca bhūtvā
muktaḥ paścāt36 sa padamamṛtaṃ37 brahma cādyaṃ hyavāpa . .64..
kṣetrajñaboddhā guṇaviprayukto38 duḥkhairvihīno bhavapāśabandhaiḥ .
tāmisramohapratibandhamukto39 yogośvarosau ditijādhipobhūt ..65. .
evaṃ tām̐śchinnapakṣām̐stu girīn sarvān purandaraḥ .
pracakāra muniśreṣṭha prāk pṛṣṭo yadahaṃ tvayā ..6 6..
iti skandapurāṇe prahrādacarite parvatapakṣacchedonāmā dvisaptatyadhikaśatatamodhyāyaḥ40

Then, in order to seek the supreme reality—the unborn, auspicious Śiva beyond the qualities— / he approached as a disciple the sage Āsuri, the direct disciple of the blessed Kapila,
and obtained from him the wisdom of liberation. / Realizing the supreme principle beyond primal matters and modifications,
and the conscious soul, the knower of the field, the experiencer who is detached from experiencing, / knowing the ultimate goal of the wisdom of liberation and mastering the doctrines of Sāṃkhya,
he became a perfected sage, best of munis, named Pañcaśikha. / Attaining supreme yoga, that great sage, a master of Sāṃkhya, / freed from the threefold suffering, attained the imperishable abode.
Thus the glorious, great-souled king of the Daityas, an enemy of the three worlds, / after long hostility with Viṣṇu, the preceptor of the gods, / subsequently became a perfected being, granter of fearlessness to the universe, and attained yoga; / freed at last, he reached the immortal state, the primordial Brahman.
Knowing the soul, detached from the gunas, freed from sorrows and the bondages of worldly existence, / liberated from the obstruction of darkness and delusion, that lord of the Daityas became a master of yoga.
In this manner Purandara cut the wings of all those mountains, / O best of sages, as you had previously asked me."
Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-second chapter, entitled "The Severing of the Mountains' Wings" in the story of Prahrāda, in the Skandapurāṇa.