[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) › 7.19 # Skandapurana 7.19 Skandapurāṇa 7.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.19.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p1) pūrvavartī pṛṣṭhaḥ(adhyāyāḥ 171-180) > Preceding page (chapters 171–180) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p2) sanatkumāra uvāca ātmā sūkṣmo manobuddhirahaṅkāro guṇāstathā . bhūtānīndriyasaṃghātastanmātrāṇi daśānilāḥ1 ..1 .. vibhaktāḥ kramaśo dehe vibhāgena yathāśrayam . svapnajāgratsuṣupteṣu2 sthāneṣu triṣu suvrata ..2 . . - - - - - - - - -- - - 1 stanmātraṇyanilātmakaḥ - kha. . 2 jāgratsvapnasuṣupteṣu (?) . suṣupteṣu () - - - - - - - - -- - - > Sanatkumāra said: > The subtle self, the mind, intellect, ego, and the guṇas, > the elements, the aggregate of senses, the subtle elements, and the ten vital airs, // 1 > are distributed in sequence within the body according to their division and locus, > residing in the three states of dream, waking, and deep sleep, O you of noble vows. // 2 > - - - - - - - - - - - - > 1 stanmātraṇyanilātmakaḥ - kha. 2 jāgratsvapnasuṣupteṣu (?) . suṣupteṣu () > - - - - - - - - - - - - > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p3) 968 hṛdaye karṇikāyāntu yat padmaṃ sarvatomukham . veṣṭitaṃ tantubhiḥ3 sūkṣmaistadūrdhvaṃ sarvadehinām . . 3 .. > 968 > As for the lotus facing in all directions in the pericarp of the heart, > wrapped with subtle fibers, it extends upwards in all embodied beings. // 3 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p4) ātmā tatra sajīvastu samanaskaḥ4 pratiṣṭhitaḥ . tat5 suṣuptamiti prāhuḥ saṃsiddhāḥ śivayoginaḥ ..4. . jvālinī6 stimitā dhūmrā vidyunmeghā viśālinī . mālinī śaṅkarī caiva sumaitrī bodhanī tathā7 ..5.. > The self, accompanied by the individual soul and with the mind, is established there; > the accomplished Śiva-yogins call that deep sleep. // 4 > Jvālinī, Stimitā, Dhūmrā, Vidyunmeghā, Viśālinī, > Mālinī, Śaṅkarī, and Sumaitrī, as well as Bodhanī: // 5 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p5) etā daśa8 mahānāḍyo jīve tasmin pratiṣṭhitāḥ . śayānaṃ pratibuddhaṃ vā yāstā bibhrati dehinam . . 6 . . śabdādiviṣayebhyastu ātmā sarvagataśca yaḥ . agnivāyusamāyukto jīva ityucyate punaḥ ..7.. > these ten great channels are established in that living soul, > which support the embodied being whether sleeping or awake. // 6 > Moreover, the all-pervading self that is beyond sensory objects such as sound, > joined with fire and wind, is termed the living soul. // 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p6) ahaṅkāro mato buddhirbhāvāścetaśca dehajāḥ . saha jīvena tiṣṭhanti dhārayantaḥ śarīriṇam ..8. . ta eva sahitāḥ sarve jīvaścaiva tu pañcamaḥ . karṇikā tantubhirvyomni saṃsthitā sarvatomukhāḥ ..9.. > Ego, thought, intellect, and the mental states and mind born of the body > abide together with the living soul, sustaining the embodied one. // 8 > All of them together, with the living soul as the fifth, > \[form\] the pericarp with fibers, situated in space, facing all directions. // 9 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p7) sthito manasi sūkṣmastu śītāṃśurnāma tantukaḥ . cetaḥ sa eva saṃproktaḥ sa eva puruṣaḥ smṛtaḥ . . 8.181.10 . . ahaṃkārotha jīvastu tanturbhāskarasaṃbhavaḥ10 . manaḥ somaḥ sukhaṃ brahmā jñānaṃ11 dharmo12 ratistathā . .1 1 .. > Situated in the mind, subtle indeed, is the fiber named Śītāṃśu; > that alone is declared to be consciousness; that is considered the Puruṣa. // 8.181.10 > The ego and the living soul are the fiber originating from the sun. > Mind is Soma, happiness is Brahmā, knowledge, righteousness, and pleasure; // 11 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p8) rasamātmā mahauṣadhyaḥ satvajo bhāvavistaraḥ . ahaṃkāro hutāśaśca mṛtyurduḥkhamathāmayam13 . .1 2. . kāmaroṣau jarā tṛṣṇā adharmaśceti tāmasāḥ . viṣṇurbuddhistathā kāryaṃ kāraṇaṃ14 bhūmireva ca . . 13 . . jñānaṃ vairāgyamākāśaṃ rājaso15 bhāvavistaraḥ16 . jīvamadhye sthitā sūkṣmā vidhūmā pāvakī śikhā . .14.. > taste, the self, the great healing herbs, are the manifestation of states born of sattva. > Ego and fire, death, grief, and disease; // 12 > desire, anger, old age, craving, and unrighteousness are of the nature of tamas. > Viṣṇu, intellect, as well as effect, cause, and the earth; // 13 > knowledge, detachment, and space are the manifestation of states born of rajas. > Situated in the center of the living soul is a subtle, smokeless flame of fire, // 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p9) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 3 daśabhiḥ - ka. kha. . 4 sumanaskaḥ - ka. . 5 taṃ - kha. . 6 jvalinī - ka. . 7 snuṣā - kha. . 8 ekādaśa - kha. . 9 - ssarvatomukhā - kha., - mukhāḥ (?),. .. mukhī (?) . 10 saṃjñakaḥ (?) . 11 brahmajñānaṃ - ka. . 12. .jñānaiśvaryo (rye?) - ka. . 13 mṛtyurduḥkhamanāmayam - ka. kha. . 14 kāryakāraṇe - ka.. 15 rājasaṃ - ka. kha. . 16 vistaram - ka. kha. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > - - - - - - - - - - - - > 3 daśabhiḥ - ka. kha. 4 sumanaskaḥ - ka. 5 taṃ - kha. 6 jvalinī - ka. 7 snuṣā - kha. 8 ekādaśa - kha. 9 - ssarvatomukhā - kha., - mukhāḥ (?), .. mukhī (?) . 10 saṃjñakaḥ (?) . 11 brahmajñānaṃ - ka. 12 ..jñānaiśvaryo (rye?) - ka. 13 mṛtyurduḥkhamanāmayam - ka. kha. 14 kāryakāraṇe - ka. 15 rājasaṃ - ka. kha. 16 vistaram - ka. kha. > - - - - - - - - - - - - > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p10) 969 amṛtaṃ sarvabhūtānāṃ gatiścaiva hi sā parā . madhye tasyāḥ sthitaṃ saumyamamṛtaṃ śaśimaṇḍalam . . 1 5.. > 969 > the nectar of all living beings, and indeed the supreme destination. > In the center of it is situated the gentle, ambrosial lunar orb. // 15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p11) madhye tasyāgnisaṃkāśo jīva īśaḥ17 pradṛśyate . sarasā lohitā mukhyā prītā rasavatī tathā ..1 6.. > In the center of it, the Lord, the living soul resembling fire, is seen. > Sarasā, Lohitā, Mukhyā, Prītā, and Rasavatī, // 16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p12) vidhūmā cāmṛtā caiva nikuṇṭhā bahuvistarā . etāḥ sūkṣmatarā nāḍyaḥ saṃbhidya daśapāvakam . tarpayanti sadā somaṃ bhūtādhāraṃ payomṛtam . . 17. . sa tābhistarpitaḥ somaḥ18 sarvānnarasavīryataḥ . saṃchādayati vṛddhastāṃ19 jīvamadhyagatāṃ śikhām .. 18 .. > as well as Vidhūmā, Amṛtā, Nikuṇṭhā, and Bahuvistarā: > these most subtle channels, having pierced the ten fires, > always nourish Soma, the support of all creatures, the milky nectar. // 17 > Soma, nourished by them by means of the essence and potency of all foods, > increased, covers that flame situated within the living soul. // 18 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p13) tadevāmṛtamākhyātamīśvarāspadamuttam . raso yadā hi somasya śikhayā karṣitodhikam20 . . 1 9.. > That indeed is declared to be the nectar, the supreme abode of Īśvara. > Indeed, when the fluid of Soma is drawn intensely by the flame, // 19 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p14) jāgartyeṣa tadā jantuḥ sarvayonisamudbhavaḥ . yāmṛtetyaparā nāḍī sā tu svapne21 pratiṣṭhitā .. 8.181.20 .. > then this creature, born from every womb, awakens. > That other channel known as Amṛtā is established in dream. // 8.181.20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p15) yadāsau somamāpīti? supta ityucyate tadā22 . ubhāvetau munirjitvā svapnajāgaraṇāśrayau . . 21 . . ajāgrannasvapam̐ścaiva dhyānayogena cintayet23 . mamatvādyāśca ye bhāvā manasaścaiva yāḥ24 ghṛṇā . .2 2 . . na buddheryacca vairāgyaṃ tena budhyanti yoginaḥ . manyate25 yanmanaḥ26 kiñcid buddhiryacca vikalpayet . .23 .. > When it drinks the soma, one is then said to be asleep. / Having conquered both of these, which are the seats of dreaming and waking, > neither waking nor sleeping, a sage should meditate through the yoga of meditation. / Whatever dispositions there are, such as the sense of 'mine', and whatever disgust \[arises\] of the mind, > and whatever non-attachment does not belong to the intellect—by that yogins perceive. / Whatever the mind thinks, and whatever the intellect doubts, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p16) yadvā kuryādahaṅkārastajjñānāt sarvamutsṛjet . niṣkriyasya kutaḥ karma tadvinā bandhanaṃ kutaḥ . . 24. . karmabandhavihīnastu saṃśuddho baddhyate27 katham . ya imān viṣayān kecinna vidyuḥ somasaṃbhavān28 . .25. . bhoktā vahniḥ29 smṛtasteṣāṃ tajjñātā kena baddhyate30 . iti jñātvā tyajeccintāṃ bhavedyogaparaḥ sadā . .26. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 17 īṣin ( īṣat?) - ka. . 18 somo - kha . 19 vṛddhāṃ tāṃ - kha. . 20.. dhika. - ka . 21 suṣupte - kha. . 22 sadā - kha. . 23 dhyānayoga vicintayet - ka. . 24 ye - kha. . 25 manyante - ka. kha 26 yanmayaḥ - ka. . 27 mucyate - ka. kha. . 22 vidyātsomasaṃbhavān - ka. kha. . 29 bhoktṛvahniḥ - kha. . 30 baddhyati - ka. kha. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > or whatever the ego may do—he should abandon all of that through knowledge. / When one is actionless, whence action? Without that, whence bondage? > Being freed from the bondage of action and thoroughly purified, how can he be bound? / Those who do not know some of these objects arisen from soma, > fire is remembered as their enjoyer; by what is one who knows that bound? / Knowing thus, he should renounce anxiety and be ever devoted to yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p17) 970 vahveryadauṣṇyaṃ tatpāpaṃ tejodharma udāhṛtaḥ . prakṛtiryā sa jīvastu yā śikhā sa maheśvaraḥ . .27.. > The heat of the fire is called sin, a property of fiery energy. / That which is Prakṛti is the living soul, but that which is the flame is Maheśvara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p18) yo dahet31 tejasā vahniṃ32 na ca tena vidahyate33 . atītā prakṛtistena vitta34stena maheśvaraḥ . .28.. > He who burns the fire with fiery energy and is not burned by it— / by him Prakṛti is transcended; through him Maheśvara is known. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p19) karmabandho hyayaṃ loko niṣkarmā baddhyate kathama . nirmamā yogaviduṣaḥ śaṃkaravratamāsthitāḥ . .29.. > For this world is bound by karma; how can one without karma be bound? / Free from the sense of 'mine', skilled in yoga, established in the observance of Śaṃkara, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p20) gacchanti svatanuṃ tyaktvā hitvā35 māyāṃ paraṃ padam . idamanyat paraṃ jñānamasmāt sūkṣmataraṃ punaḥ . .8.181.3 0 .. > they go to the supreme state, abandoning their own body and leaving behind māyā. / Now, another supreme knowledge, subtler than this, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p21) pravakṣyāmi tava vyāsa bhaktastvamasi śaṅkare . yoginonye na jānanti yad guhyaṃ paramādbhutam36 .. 31 . . muktvā pāśupatān siddhān yanna bhūteṣu vidyate . mano buddhirahaṅkāra indriyāṇi guṇatrayam .. 32 . . na spṛśanti tadātmānaṃ37 vikārāstasya te bahiḥ . sarvatra dṛśyate sotha na ca sarvaiḥ pradṛśyate . sa evaṃ dṛsyate dhyānānnānyopāyāt kathañcana38 ..3 3 . . sarvabhāvaguṇātītaṃ sucintyaṃ39 parameśvaram . jñānena ye prapaśyanti yoginaste pare smṛtāḥ . .34. . chāyaiṣā dṛśyate yā tu cakṣurviṣayamāśritā . sa jīvaḥ kīrtito vyāsa sthitihetuḥ śarīriṇām . .3 5. . tatrāste sa paro hyātmā sūkṣmo madhyagatovyayaḥ mahānāgaḥ smṛto nāmnā vāyurākāśagocaraḥ ..3 6.. > I shall declare to you, Vyāsa, since you are devoted to Śaṅkara, / which other yogins do not know, which is secret and most wonderful, > which, apart from the perfected Pāśupatas, does not exist among beings. / The mind, intellect, ego, sense organs, and the triad of guṇas > do not touch that self; his transformations are external. / Then he is seen everywhere, yet he is not seen by everyone; > he is seen thus only through meditation, by no other means whatsoever. / Beyond all states of existence and guṇas, well-meditated upon, the Supreme Lord— > those yogins who perceive him through knowledge are remembered as supreme. / But this shadow which is seen, dwelling in the domain of the eye, > that is declared as the living soul, O Vyāsa, the cause of embodied beings' stability. / In that resides that supreme Self, subtle, situated in the middle, imperishable. / The wind that moves in the space \[of the heart\] is known by the name Mahānāga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p22) ākāśe karṇikāyāṃ ca nāḍyāṃ jīve ca saṃsthitaḥ . gāndhārī vijayā caiva sañjñayā talavartinī .. 37. . nāga etāsu nāḍīṣu vāyuḥ saṃparivartate . sā jayā40 vijayā yā ca dve te prāṇavahe smṛte ..38 . . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 31 deha - ka. . 32 vahnirna - kha. . 33 vidahyati - ka. 34 viddhaḥ - kha., vinnaḥ - ka. . 35 bhitvā - kha . 36 paramadbhutam - kha. . 37 tamātmāna (?) . 38 tānupāyān - ka.,.. .pāyānna tu - kha. . 39 svabhāvaguṇātītama- cintyaṃ - kha. . 40 sañjayā (?) . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > It is stationed in the space, in the pericarp, in the channel, and in the living soul. / The \[channels named\] Gāndhārī, Vijayā, and the one residing below by designation— > in these channels the wind Nāga moves about. / That Jayā and the one which is Vijayā, those two are remembered as carriers of vital breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p23) 971 apāne talagāndhāryau nāḍyau nāgena saṃyute . yogādapānamanasornāgena samudīritāḥ41 . .3 9 .. > In the downward breath are the channels Talā and Gāndhārī, joined with the Nāga \[wind\]. / Through the yoga of the downward breath and the mind, they are impelled by the Nāga \[wind\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p24) sa prāṇo bahirantaśca tarpayan havyavāhanam . vṛddhaṃ42 saṃdhārayed dehamāyuṣā ca balena ca . .8.181.40 .. > That vital breath, satisfying the sacrificial fire outside and inside, / sustains the mature body with lifespan and with strength. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p25) nāḍī tvanyā suṣumṇeti43 somavahnimanaḥsthitā . sāsmin sadhātuke dehe kūrmāre44 cānile sthitā ..41 . . gulphe45 karatale46 saktā47 nikuñcā saprasāriṇī48 . samānavyānasaṃyuktā raktamāṃse hi tarpayet49 ..42. . udāno yoparo vāyuryañja kūrmāra50 ucyate . nāḍyāṃ nābhinibaddhāyāṃ tulāyāṃ tau pratiṣṭhitau . .43 .. > Another channel is called Suṣumṇā, situated in soma, fire, and the mind. / In this body endowed with elements, it is situated in the Kūrmāra wind, > attached to the ankle and the palm of the hand, contracting and extending. / Joined with the Samāna and Vyāna \[winds\], it satisfies blood and flesh. > The other wind which is Udāna and that which is called Kūrmāra, / both of those are established in balance in the channel tied to the navel. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p26) adha ekaścarennāḍyā vāyuranyastadūrdhvagaḥ . adhaḥsthaḥ pādasaṃbaddha ūrdhvagaḥ śirasi sthitaḥ . .44.. > One wind moves downward through the channel, and the other moves upward from it. / The one staying below is connected to the feet; the one going upward is situated in the head. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p27) yo vāyurdevadattākhyaḥ kṛtako51 yoparonilaḥ . vahnisomanibaddhau tau prāṇahetū mahābalau52 ..45.. > The wind named Devadatta and the other wind Kṛtaka, / both are tied to fire and soma, the very strong causes of the vital breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p28) eko vivarddhayatyagnimanyaḥ somañca tarpayet53 . devadattamahānāgakṛtakūrmadhanañjayāḥ54 . .46 .. > One increases the fire, and the other satisfies the soma. / Devadatta, Mahānāga, Kṛta, Kūrma, and Dhanañjaya— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p29) prāṇāste pañca vikhyātā vahnayo- - yājinaḥ . hutameṣu yadiṣṭaṃ vā somaṃ tadupatiṣṭhati55 ..47.. > these are well-known as the five vital breaths, the fires of the sacrificer. / Whatever is offered or sacrificed into these approaches the soma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p30) somaṃ viśanti yajvāno na teṣāṃ muktilakṣaṇam . dīptiragneḥ smṛtā yā tu oṣadhibhyaśca yadrasam ..48.. > Sacrificers enter the soma; theirs is not the mark of liberation. / But what is remembered as the brilliance of fire, and the essence that comes from medicinal herbs, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p31) tarpaṇaṃ yacca somasya karṇikāyāṃ tadāsthitam . netreṣu dṛśyate yoyaṃ jyotiḥ chāyāprakāśakaḥ ..49.. > and the satisfaction of soma—that is established in the pericarp. / This light which is seen in the eyes, illuminating shadow, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p32) sa jīvaḥ sarvasatvānāmātmā tatra samāsthitaḥ . jyotiṣontargataḥ sūkṣmastaddharmaṃ56 paramaṃ smṛtam . .8.181.50 .. > that is the living soul of all beings; the self is established there. / Interior to light, subtle—that is remembered as the supreme state. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p33) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 41 samudīritāṃ - kha., samudīrite (?) . 42 vṛddhaḥ - kha . 43 suṣumneti - ka., susupteti - kha. . 44 kurmāre - kha., kumāre - ka. . 45 gulphā - ka. . 46 khuratale - ka., karatalā - kha. . 47 śakte- kha . 48 suprasāriṇī - ka. . 49 hyatarpayet - ka kha. . 50 kurmāra - ka. . 51 kṛkako( lo) (?) . 52 samānilau - kha. . 53. .matarpayat - ka kha. . 54 kṛkakūrmadhanañjayāḥ - kha, . 55 tadupatiṣṭhate - kha. . 56 taddharmā - ka., taddharma - kha. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > \[Apparatus\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p34) 972 taccāmṛtaṃ samākhyātaṃ jñānalabhyaṃ taducyate . tasmāt paratarā57 nāsti jñānavijñānayorgatiḥ58 . .51 . . jñātvaivaṃ santyajenmohaṃ guṇatrayavikārajam . abhinnasyātmanastasya ṣaḍviṃśasyeśvarasya59 . .52 . . bhedaṃ bhagavataḥ kuryāt konyo yogaviśāradaḥ . nirañjanaṃ nirvikalpaṃ prabhuṃ taṃ na vikalpayet ..5 3 . . vimohāstyaktasaṃsargāḥ kriyākāryavivarjitāḥ . taṃ viśanti maheśānamīśvaravratacāriṇaḥ . .54.. itīdaṃ yogamākhyātaṃ vyāsa māheśvaraṃ tava . samyagīśvarasandhānaṃ60 yadanyatra na vidyate . .55.. sandeho yatra te vipra praṣṭavyaṃ yacca manyase . tad brahman paripṛcchāśu nāvaktavyaṃ tavāsti me ..56 .. iti skandapurāṇe pāśupatayogavarṇane yogavidhāvaṣṭamoyamekāśītyuttara61 śatatamodhyāyaḥ62 > 972 > And that is proclaimed as the immortal nectar; it is declared to be attainable through knowledge. > There is no higher goal of knowledge and discernment than that. (51) > Having understood this thus, one should abandon delusion born from the transformation of the three qualities. > Of that indivisible Self, the twenty-sixth \[principle\], the Lord, (52) > who else adept in yoga would make a division from the Blessed Lord? > One should not imagine diversity in that spotless, indeterminate master. (53) > Free from delusion, with associations abandoned, devoid of actions and duties, > those who observe the vow of the Lord enter into that great Lord. (54) > Thus this Māheśvara yoga has been declared to you, Vyāsa, > which is the correct union with the Lord, such as is found nowhere else. (55) > Whatever doubt you have, O brahmin, and whatever you consider should be asked, > ask that at once, O holy one; I have nothing that cannot be told to you. (56) > Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-first chapter in the Skandapurāṇa, in the description of Pāśupata yoga, on the rules of yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p35) vyāsa uvāca bhagavan sarvayogīśa sarvāmaranamaskṛta1 . aho jñānaṃ tvayākhyātamajñānavinivartanam . .1 .. adyāhaṃ gatasandeho mahādevaṃ paraṃ prati . śaṅkarāt prakṛtirjātā brahmaviṣṇū tadātmakau . .2. . jñātvā ṣaḍaviṃśamīśānaṃ mucyate bandhanāditi . sarvayogapathāt2 pūrvamuktvā sakalasaṃhitām ..3 .. niṣkalaṃ sakalaṃ3 jñānaṃ konya evaṃ prabhāṣate . śravaṇādasya viprendra dehaṃ muktamabodhiṣam4 ..4. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 57 paratara - kha . 58 jñānijñānamana?. - kha. . 51 ṣaḍviṃśasya parasya - ka. . 60... sandhānā\[t) . - kha. . 61 ekasaptatyuttara - ka . 62 171 - ka, 229 - kha. . 1 namaskṛtaḥ - ka. . 2 mathā kha, 3 śāṅkaraṃ - kha . 4 yat - ka. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > Vyāsa said: > O blessed Lord, ruler of all yogins, bowed to by all immortals, > oh, the knowledge dispelling ignorance has been spoken by you! (1) > Today my doubts regarding Mahādeva, the Supreme, are gone. > Prakṛti was born from Śaṅkara; Brahmā and Viṣṇu have that nature. (2) > Having known the twenty-sixth \[principle\], the Lord, one is freed from bondage, thus \[it is\]. > Having first spoken the entire saṃhitā concerning every path of yoga, (3) > who else speaks in this manner of knowledge, both partless and with parts? > From hearing this, O chief of brahmins, I have understood the body to be released. (4) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p36) 973 tvatprasādādahaṃ tāta prāptajñāno gatāśubhaḥ . visandeho5 bhavaṃ6 śāntaḥ praṣṭavyaṃ kiñcidasti me . .5.. > 973 > By your grace, dear father, I have attained knowledge and my misfortunes are gone. > Free from doubt, tranquil in existence, there is something I must ask. (5) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p37) tattvāṃ7 vijñāpayāmīdaṃ niṣṭhāmākhyātumarhasi . evaṃ vijñānasaṃpannaḥ prāptayogo munirmune . .6. . vinākleśaṃ tanuṃ tyaktvā yogī yogabalānvitaḥ . kathamāpnoti tad brahma niṣkalaṃ parameśvaram . 7. . īśvarādhānasaṃprāpterupāyaṃ8 mokṣalambhanam . kathayasva muniśreṣṭha praṣṭavyaṃ nānyadasti me . .8. . evamuktaḥ sa śiṣyeṇa vyāsena sumahātmanā . kathayāmāsa viprendraḥ śivasiddhāntaniścayam . .9. . sanatkumāra uvāca śṛṇu vyāsa paraṃ jñānamīśvarādhānakāraṇam9 . svecchayā10 yena mucyante11 yogino jñānatatparāḥ . . 8.182.10 . . tridhotkrāntimimāṃ12 jñātvā muhurabhyasya caiva hi . svadehaṃ ripuvat tvaktvā13 ṣaḍviṃśe layamāpnuyāt ..1 1 .. > Therefore I ask this of you; you ought to declare the final state. > Having thus become endowed with discernment, the sage who has attained yoga, O sage, (6) > how does the yogin, endowed with the power of yoga, leaving behind the body without affliction, > attain that partless Brahman, the supreme Lord? (7) > Tell me, O best of sages, the means to achieve fixation on the Lord, which yields liberation; > I have nothing else to ask. (8) > Addressed thus by his disciple, the very noble Vyāsa, > the chief of brahmins declared the certainty of the Śiva doctrine. (9) > Sanatkumāra said: > Listen, Vyāsa, to the supreme knowledge, the cause of fixation on the Lord, > by which yogins intent on knowledge are liberated at their own will. (10) > Having understood this three-fold departure and practicing it repeatedly indeed, > abandoning one's own body like an enemy, one should attain absorption in the twenty-sixth \[principle\]. (11) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p38) yā nāḍyo vāyvavaṣṭabdhāḥ14 saṃvaranti15 śarīriṇam16 . śataṃ tāsāṃ śatānāṃ tu karṇikāmadhyamāśritam17 . . 12.. > The channels that, held by wind, encompass the embodied soul— > a hundred hundreds of them have taken resort in the center of the pericarp. (12) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p39) tamāśrityā18 sthitā nāḍyo19 nābhyāṃ pādeṣvadhogatāḥ . śirobaddhāḥ smṛtā bhūyastā eva karamāsthitāḥ20 . .13 .. > Resorting to it, channels stand going downward from the navel to the feet; > they are remembered as tied to the head, and again, those very ones abide in the hand. (13) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p40) karamāśritya tā bhūyaḥ karṇikāṃ punarāśritāḥ . dvisaptatisahasrāṇi nāḍonāmaparā21 mune .. 14.. > Having resorted to the hand, they again resort to the pericarp. > There are another seventy-two thousand channels, O sage. (14) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p41) tāsāmekaikaśo bhedāḥ22 sūkṣmasūkṣmatarāḥ23 smṛtāḥ24 . tāsu sañcarate prāṇaḥ karṇikāvyomasaṃbhavaḥ .. 1 5. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 5 niḥsandeho - kha. . 6 bhavān - ka. kha. . 7 tantvā - kha . 8 īśvaradhyānasaṃprāpterupāyaṃ - kha. . 9 dhvānakāraṇam - kha. . 10 svepsayā - kha. . 11 mucyanti - ka kha. . 12.. .mimaṃ - ka . 13 kṛtvā - kha. . 14 veṣṭitāṣṭabdhā? - ka . 7. 9 saṃcaranti - kha. . 16 śarīriṇa - ka. . 17 samāśritāḥ - ka. . 18 tamāśritā - kha. . 19 nāḍī - ka. kha. . 20. śriya?. - ka . 21 maparaṃ - ka kha. . 22 bhede - ka. . 23 sūkṣmātarā . ka . 24 sthitā - ka . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > Their individual divisions are remembered as subtle and subtler still; > through them circulates the vital breath, born from the space of the pericarp. (15) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p42) 974 tatrātmā sūkṣmasaṃlakṣyaḥ prāguktastiṣṭhati dvija . yā prabhā durdṛśā tasya tāṃ bhajed yogavinmuniḥ .. 1 6. . tattejaḥ sarvanāḍīṣu vibhaktaṃ sarvadehinām . tena nāḍyo bahiḥ sparśānmanaḥ kurvanti vistṛtam . . 17.. > 974 > There stands the Self, to be perceived subtly, as mentioned before, O twice-born. > Whatever light of it is difficult to see, the sage knowing yoga should worship that. (16) > That splendor is distributed in all channels of all embodied beings; > by that, through external touches, the channels expand the mind. (17) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p43) tattejaścakṣuṣā hṛtvā sarvanāḍīsamāśritam . mana ekagataṃ kuryāt taccātmani niyojayet . . 18.. > Having withdrawn that splendor situated in all channels by means of the eye, > one should make the mind focused on one \[point\] and employ it in the Self. (18) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p44) vāyurdhanañjayo nāmnā yo hṛdi sphurate sadā . trīṇi tasya mukhānyāhuḥ śiro nābhi25 rhṛdeva ca . .1 9. . yenye prāṇā navākhyātā vāyavaḥ kīrtitā mayā . dhanañjayasya sarve te vaśagāstannibandhanāḥ . .8.182.2 0 .. > The wind named Dhanañjaya, which always throbs in the heart— > they say it has three apertures: the head, the navel, and the heart. (19) > Whichever other nine vital winds are proclaimed and recounted by me, > they are all under the control of Dhanañjaya, bound to it. (20) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p45) tadvaśādutkramantyete tasmim̐tiṣṭhanti saṃsthitāḥ . nābhībandhanamāsādya36 nāḍīnāṃ vaktramāsthitam . . 21 . . dvitīyaṃ karṇikāyāntu tṛtīyaṃ tālusaṃsthitam27 . kṣurikā paraśuḥ śūlaṃ trividhotkrāntirucyate . .22 .. > Under its control they depart; in it they remain situated. > Reaching the knot of the navel, situated at the mouth of the channels, (21) > the second is in the pericarp, and the third is situated in the palate. > The knife, the axe, and the trident: thus the three-fold departure is described. (22) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p46) śūlaṃ hṛdi kṣuraṃ nābhyāṃ tālau paraśurāsthitaḥ . tāluke hṛdi vā28 baddha trayaṃ29 nābhyāṃ pratiṣṭhitam ..23 .. > The trident is in the heart, the razor in the navel, and the axe is placed in the palate; > bound in the palate or in the heart, the triad is established in the navel. (23) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p47) tālau viyojitaṃ sarvaṃ prāṇameva vimuñcati . ākṣiptaṃ tritayaṃ nābhyāṃ karṇikāyāṃ viyojitam30 . . 24.. > Detached in the palate, it releases the vital breath itself completely; > drawn back into the navel, the triad is detached in the pericarp. (24) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p48) sthitam (?) ātmani saṃyojya vikṣipedūrdhvato manaḥ . prayogādasya viprendra mucyate tatkṣaṇānmuniḥ . .25. . svacchandatanusaṃtyāga eṣa te parikīrtitaḥ . dharmādharmanibaddhaistu karmabhiḥ prāganuṣṭhitaiḥ ..26 .. > Uniting the mind situated in the Self, one should cast it upward; > by this practice, O chief of brahmins, the sage is instantly liberated. (25) > This voluntary abandonment of the body has been described to you. > However, through previously performed actions bound to merit and demerit, (26) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p49) yathā31 jīvo na baddhyeta32 yoginastadidaṃ33 śṛṇu . bāhyaḥśarīrajaścaiva mṛtyurdvividha ucyate . . 27 .. > listen now to how the yogin's soul may not be bound: > death is said to be of two kinds: external and born within the body. (27) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p50) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 25 nāmā(sā) - ka. . 26 nāḍībandhanamāsādya - kha . 17 tālusaṃsthitā - kha 28 vā hṛdi - ka. . 29 bandhatrayaṃ - kha. . 30 viyojayet - ka . 31 tathā - kha . 32 buddhyeta - kha. . 33 ...stadimaṃ - ka, stamimaṃ - kha. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > ---- > 25 nāmā(sā) - ms. ka. 26 nāḍībandhanamāsādya - ms. kha. 17 tālusaṃsthitā - ms. kha. 28 vā hṛdi - ms. ka. 29 bandhatrayaṃ - ms. kha. 30 viyojayet - ms. ka. 31 tathā - ms. kha. 32 buddhyeta - ms. kha. 33 ...stadimaṃ - ms. ka, stamimaṃ - ms. kha. > ---- > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p51) 975 viṣaśastrāgniyogaistu sarpadaṃṣṭrimarujjalaiḥ . bāhyo mṛtyuriti khyātaḥ śārīraṃ tu nibodha me . .28 .. > \[Death occurring\] through contact with poison, weapons, or fire, or through snakes, fanged beasts, diseases, or water, / is renowned as external death; now learn from me concerning bodily \[death\]. // 28 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p52) rogajaḥ kālajo vāpi mṛtyurābhyantaro34 bhavet . kālajo jarayā prokto rogajo vyadhisaṃkṣayāt? . .29. . durlabho mṛtyuranyoyaṃ35 yogasaṃdhānajo mune . yogopāyakṛto yaśca yaśca kālakṣayāgataḥ ..8.182.3 0 . . tayorbhedavikāre tu śṛṇu vyāsa samāsataḥ . kālakṣayād bhavatyeko dvitīyo manasepsitaḥ . .3 1 . . yoyamāghoṣajaḥ śabdaḥ śrūyate śrotrasandhitaḥ36 . sa pūrvaṃ līyate kūrme tena vahnistyajet prabhām ..3 2.. > Internal death may be born of disease or born of time. / Born of time is said to be through old age, while born of disease is from the destruction \[of the body\] by ailment. // 29 > This other death, O sage, is difficult to attain: that which arises from uniting in yoga; / that which is brought about by the means of yoga, and that which comes from the expiration of time. // 30 > Listen in brief, O Vyāsa, to the difference and change between the two: / one occurs from the expiration of time, whereas the second is desired by the mind. // 31 > This sound born of ringing which is heard joined in the ear, / that merges first into Kūrma; by that, fire abandons its luster. // 32 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p53) niṣprabhaḥ sa tato vahniḥ śabdayogādviyujyate . śabdasparśaguṇātīto rūpayogaṃ vimuñcati ..3 3 .. > Then, bereft of luster, that fire is separated from conjunction with sound; / surpassing the qualities of sound and touch, it abandons its connection to form. // 33 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p54) evamagnau praṇaṣṭe tu sarva evānilāstataḥ . ekato yogamicchanto37 marmāṇi vinikṛntate . .34.. > When fire has thus perished, all the vital winds then, / desiring union in one place, tear through the vital points. // 34 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p55) kūrmāro38 devadattaśca kṛkaro nāga eva ca . udānenāśu saṃyujya karṇikāyāṃ viśanti39 hi ..3 5. . tata40 ūrdhvo bhavecchvāso manojīvavinirgamaḥ . tato jyotiryadakṣibhyāṃ41 tatsomaṃ viśati drutam42 ..3 6.. > Kūrmāra, Devadatta, Kṛkara, and Nāga indeed, / quickly joining with Udāna, enter into the pericarp \[of the heart\]. // 35 > Then the breath ascends upward, \[bringing\] the departure of mind and individual self; / then whatever light was in the two eyes quickly enters the moon. // 36 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p56) indriyāṇi mano yānti manaḥ prāṇavinirgamam . teṣu sarveṣu līneṣu prāṇān vāyurnipīḍayet . .37.. > The senses go into the mind, and the mind into the departure of prāṇa; / when all of them have dissolved, the wind oppresses the vital breaths. // 37 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p57) pīḍyamānāstataḥ sarve43 te bhavantyekatonilāḥ44 . svaṃ svaṃ tyaktvā tataḥ sthānaṃ yacca45 karma yadātmakam ..38.. > Then, being oppressed, all those winds become unified, / each having abandoned its own location, activity, and essential nature. // 38 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p58) ekasthā vāyavaḥ sarve pūrayanti dhanañjayam . śeṣastatra hi kūrmāro jīvaṃ tyaktvā sa tiṣṭhati .. 39 .. > All the winds situated together fill Dhanañjaya; / remaining there indeed, Kūrmāra stays, having abandoned the individual self. // 39 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.p59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.p59) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 34 mṛtyurabhyantaro - kha. . 35 rabhyāsād - ka. . 36 sandhite (taiḥ) - kha. . 37 lokamicchanto - kha. . 38 kurmāro - ka kha. . 39. ..māviśanti - kha. . 40 ataḥ - kha, . 41 jyotiryadakṣibhyāṃ - ka. . 42 drute - kha. . 43 bhavantyekagato - ka., bhavantyantagato - kha. . 44 tā - kha. . 45 dharma - kha. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > ---- > 34 mṛtyurabhyantaro - ms. kha. 35 rabhyāsād - ms. ka. 36 sandhite (taiḥ) - ms. kha. 37 lokamicchanto - ms. kha. 38 kurmāro - mss. ka, kha. 39 ...māviśanti - ms. kha. 40 ataḥ - ms. kha. 41 jyotiryadakṣibhyāṃ - ms. ka. 42 drute - ms. kha. 43 bhavantyekagato - ms. ka, bhavantyantagato - ms. kha. 44 tā - ms. kha. 45 dharma - ms. kha. > ---- > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43) 976 manobuddhirahaṅkāraśceto jīvastathaiva ca . niṣkramanti tato dehāttvaritaṃ vāyuneritāḥ ..8.182.40 . . prāgupāttastatosyānyo dehaḥ sūkṣmo vijāyate . sa tatra sandhito46 jīvo bhūyo mūḍhaśca tiṣṭhati47 . .41 .. evaṃ kālakṛtā hyeṣā sarvabhūtagaṇasthitiḥ48 . vinā yogaṃ na jīyeta sūkṣmaṃ māheśvaraṃ padam . .52 . . upaviṣṭaḥ prasupto vā utkrāntyabhyastasaṃyamaḥ49 . svecchayā mucyate vyāsa jñātvā tantuḥ50 maheśvaram . .43 . > Mind, intellect, ego, consciousness, and likewise the individual self, / driven by the wind, then quickly depart from the body. // 40 > Another, subtle body, acquired previously, then comes into being for it; / joined there, that individual self once again remains deluded. // 41 > Such indeed is this condition of the host of all living beings brought about by time; / without yoga, the subtle state belonging to Maheśvara cannot be won. // 42 > Seated or asleep, having practiced restraint regarding departure, / knowing the thread \[to be\] Maheśvara, he is liberated at will, O Vyāsa. // 43 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_60) kṣurikāṃ paraśuṃ vātha śūlaṃ vā dhārayenmuniḥ . tataḥ sarvesya līyante51 vikārāḥ karaṇaiḥ saha ..44. . vīkṣate ceśvaraṃ brahma ṣaḍviṃśaṃ svatanusthitam . manastīvraṃ jaḍaṃ jantoḥ prayacchati vipadyataḥ52 . .45 .. sa rujā mohamāpanno jñānavastu na vindati . anena karmaṇā vipra sarvarukparivarjitaḥ ..46 .. sukhamārohati brahma harmyapṛṣṭhaṃ53 talādiva . padārthaṃ pañca vijñāya duḥkhāntapariniṣṭhitaḥ . .47. . pañcabhirbrahmabhiḥ pūto bhasmasā54 dīkṣito dvijaḥ . śaṅkaraikamanā yogī jñānametadavāpnute . .48 . . māheśvaramimaṃ yogaṃ niṣkalaṃ muktikāraṇam55 . yatnādapi na vindanti vratamaprāpya śāṃkaram56 ..49 . . sa tvaṃ vyāsa mahābuddhe57 caran58 pāśupataṃ vratam . mahādevaparo bhūtvā jñānametadavāpnuhi . .8.182.50 . . naivametat59 paraṃ brahma anye vindanti yoginaḥ . mahādevaṃ prapannā60 ye tānmuktvā śivayoginaḥ ..51 . . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 46 tatrāpasthito (?) . 47 mūḍhasmṛti? - ka. ' 48. gaṇāsthiti - kha. . 49 utkrāntābhyastasaṃyamaḥ -kha.. 50 tattvaṃ - kha. . 51 līyanti - kha. . 52 vipadyate - kha. . 53 harmyamṛṣṭhe - ka. kha. . 54 bhasmanā (?) . 55 mūrtikāraṇaṃ - ka, mūrttakāraṇam - kha . 56 śaṃkaram - ka. kha. . 57 mahāprajña - kha. . 58 cara - kha. . 59 daivametat - kha. . 60 mahādeva prapannā - ka . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > The sage should then hold a razor, an axe, or a trident; / then all his modifications dissolve along with the sense-faculties. // 44 > And he perceives Īśvara, the twenty-sixth principle, Brahman residing in his own body; / \[whereas\] to a dying creature, the dull mind brings fierce \[pain\]. // 45 > Overwhelmed by delusion due to pain, he does not find the real entity of knowledge. / Through this rite, O brahmin, free from all sickness, // 46 > one easily ascends to Brahman as if onto the roof of a mansion from the ground. / Having understood the five categories, firmly grounded in the end of suffering, // 47 > purified by the five Brahmans, initiated with ash, the twice-born / yogin whose mind is solely on Śaṅkara attains this knowledge. // 48 > Without undertaking the Śāṅkara observance, they do not attain even with effort / this Maheśvara yoga, which is partless and the cause of liberation. // 49 > Therefore, practicing the Pāśupata observance, O Vyāsa of great intellect, / being devoted to Mahādeva, attain this knowledge! // 50 > Other yogins do not thus attain this supreme Brahman, / except those Śiva-yogins who have sought refuge in Mahādeva. // 51 > ---- > 46 tatrāpasthito (?). 47 mūḍhasmṛti? - ms. ka. 48 gaṇāsthiti - ms. kha. 49 utkrāntābhyastasaṃyamaḥ - ms. kha. 50 tattvaṃ - ms. kha. 51 līyanti - ms. kha. 52 vipadyate - ms. kha. 53 harmyamṛṣṭhe - mss. ka, kha. 54 bhasmanā (?). 55 mūrtikāraṇaṃ - ms. ka, mūrttakāraṇam - ms. kha. 56 śaṃkaram - mss. ka, kha. 57 mahāprajña - ms. kha. 58 cara - ms. kha. 59 daivametat - ms. kha. 60 mahādeva prapannā - ms. ka. > ---- > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_61) 977 eṣa61 mokṣavidhiḥ kṛtsnaḥ62 sarvapratyayavajitaḥ63 . niṣkalaḥ64 kathito vyāsa paro yasmānna vidyate65 .. 52. . evaṃ pāśupatā viprā niṣkalaṃ taṃ maheśvaram . yogādāviśya mucyante66 punarjanmavivarjitāḥ ..53 .. sakalasyāspadaṃ divyaṃ brahmalokāt pare67 sthitama . mahādevasya vakṣyāmi tadbhaktā yatra yānti te68 . .54.. iti skandapurāṇe pāśupatayogavarṇane yogavidhau navamaḥ dvyaśītyuttara69 śatatamodhyāyaḥ70 > This entire rule of liberation, devoid of all conventional cognition / \[and\] partless, has been spoken, O Vyāsa, beyond which nothing higher exists. // 52 > Thus Pāśupata brahmins, having entered that partless Maheśvara / through yoga, are liberated, freed from rebirth. // 53 > I shall describe the divine abode of the manifest \[Lord\], situated beyond the world of Brahmā, / where those devoted to Mahādeva go. // 54 > Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-second chapter in the Skandapurāṇa, in the exposition of Pāśupata yoga, on the rule of yoga. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_62) sanatkumāra uvāca satyasya mahataścaiva janasya tapasastathā . bhavyabhūtabhavānāṃ ca saptānāmūrghvataḥ sthitaḥ1 . . 1 .. loko bhagavataḥ śambhoryatrāste sakalaḥ śivaḥ . nāsau tarkavinirdeśyo lokāstasmin pratiṣṭhitāḥ ..2 . . ūrdhvaṃ tiryagadhastācca lokāstadvinibandhanāḥ . brahmāṇḍaṃ sakalaṃ tasmiñchivaloke pratiṣṭhitam ..3 . . nāsau naśyati saṃhāre dhruvaḥ sthāṇuḥ surālayaḥ3 . yatrāhaṃ sanakādyāśca brahmā caiva pitāmahaḥ4 ..4.. bālakhilyapurogāśca5 siddhāśca kapilādayaḥ . śivayogapariprāptyā6 satvādiguṇavarjitāḥ ..5 . . tiṣṭhāmo nirvṛtā vyāsa sevamānāstamīśvaram . paramāṇurasāvīśo bhāvagamyo manīṣiṇām . .6.. paramaiśvaryasaṃyuktastatrāste vigraheśvaraḥ . kṣamā satyaṃ dhṛtiścaiva tapo vairāgyameva ca . .7.. - - - -- - - - - - - - - 61 eṣā - ka. kha. . 62 kṛtsnā - ka. kha. . 63.. varjitā - ka. kha. . 64 niṣkalā -ka kha. 65 paraṃ yasyā na vidyate - ka. kha. . 66 mucyanti - ka. . 67 parā - kha. . 68 yāntīti - ka. . 69 dvisaptatyuttara - ka. . 70 adhyāyāṅko na vidyatetra kha pustake . > Sanatkumāra said: > Situated above the seven \[worlds\]—Satya, Mahas, / Jana, and Tapas, as well as those of the future, past, and present— // 1 > is the world of the blessed Śambhu, where the manifest Śiva abides. / It cannot be indicated by reasoning; the worlds are established within it. // 2 > Above, horizontally, and below, the worlds are bound to it. / The entire cosmic egg is established in that Śivaloka. // 3 > It does not perish at the dissolution, constant, immovable, the abode of the gods, / where I, Sanaka and others, Brahmā the Grandsire, // 4 > led by the Bālakhilyas, and the perfected ones like Kapila, / having attained Śivayoga, free from qualities such as sattva, // 5 > remain blissful, O Vyāsa, serving that Lord. / The Lord is an ultimate subtle particle, accessible through devotion to the wise. // 6 > Endowed with supreme sovereignty, the Lord of forms abides there. / Forbearance, truth, firmness, austerity, and detachment, // 7 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_63) 1 sthitam - kha. . 2 vinibandhanāt - ka. . 3 sthāṇvīśvarālayaḥ (?) . 4 pitā mama - kha. . 5 bālikhilyapurogāśca - ka. kha. . 6 pariprāptāḥ - kha. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > \[Critical apparatus / variant readings\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_64) 978 sraṣṭṛtvaṃ7 jñānavairāgyādātmabodho8 maheśatā . nityametāni tiṣṭhanti tasmindeve maheśvare . .8. . yogavahnirasāvātmā brahmasṛkparameśvaraḥ . sākalyānmūrttimāsthāya9 karoti jagataḥ sthitim . .9. . aṣṭamaṃ dhruvamadhyeya(? )makṣaraṃ10 muktikāraṇam . māyādhāma tadīśasya jagatsaṃhārahetumat . .8.183.1 0 .. > creatorship from knowledge and detachment, self-knowledge, and supreme mastery— / these eternally abide in that god Maheśvara. // 8 > He is the fire of yoga, the self, the supreme Lord who creates Brahmā; / assuming a form in its entirety, he maintains the world. // 9 > The eighth, firm, unalterable, imperishable, the cause of liberation, / that realm of Māyā of the Lord is the cause of the dissolution of the universe. // 10 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_65) ūrdhvato brahmalokasya yojanānāṃ mahātmanaḥ . viṃśatīnāntu koṭīnāṃ puraṃ sthāṇoḥ samāsthitam . .1 1.. > Above the world of Brahmā, at a distance of twenty crores / of yojanas, the city of the great-souled Sthāṇu is situated. // 11 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_66) etāvānūrdhvasañcāro gatyantaśca tataḥ smṛtaḥ . asaṃkhyātāḥ pure tasminnityāḥ sūkṣmāstathāvyayāḥ ..12.. > Such is the upward movement, and beyond that is known the end of motion. / In that city there are countless, eternal, subtle, and imperishable // 12 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_67) jñānādhikāradharmiṇyaḥ śaivīprakṛtayaḥ sthitāḥ . yābhyo jajñe11 maheśānau brahmaviṣṇū prajāpatī . . 13 . . tābhyāṃ prakṛtibhūtābhyāṃ sraṣṭṛtvaṃ paramaṃ dadau . akṣayo vimalaḥ sūkṣmo niṣkalaḥ sakalopi ca . . 14.. > Śaiva powers characterized by the authority of knowledge, / from which he produced the two supreme lords, the progenitors Brahmā and Viṣṇu. // 13 > To those two, who had become \[his\] material instruments, he gave supreme creatorship. / Imperishable, stainless, subtle, partless, and yet with parts, // 14 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_68) sthire mūrte12 pare divye paramāṇupade sthitaḥ . manasaḥ prāktamasyādau13 tattejaḥsaṃprakāśanam .. 15.. > standing in a stable, formed, transcendent, divine, atomic state; / prior to the mind, at the beginning of darkness, that manifestation of his splendor arose. // 15 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_69) yadāsīddhaimamaṇḍantu14 laukikaṃ tvāpavargikam . mahattat15 sarvato nityamīśvarāttadabhūttadā . .16.. > The golden egg which existed, both worldly and leading to emancipation, / that great, everywhere eternal principle then arose from Īśvara. // 16 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_70) tasmādbījasya nirbhedaḥ kṣetrajñaḥ sa vibhuḥ smṛtaḥ . prakṛtirvaiṣṇavī proktā sā ca tasmādvinirgatā ..17 .. > From that splitting of the seed, he is considered the all-pervading knower of the field. / The nature called Vaiṣṇavī also came forth from him. // 17 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_71) surāsurādisṛṣṭyarthaṃ brahmatvaṃ16 punarāsthitā . aṇḍasya bhedataḥ17 padmabrahmaṇaḥ18 śaṃkarātmanaḥ . brahmalokapurastācca puraṃ tejomayaṃ mahat ..18. . yat sthānaṃ vigraheśasya īśvarasya parātmanaḥ . nāmnā śivapuraṃ vyāsa gatirīśvarayoginām .. 19.. > For the sake of creating gods, asuras, and the rest, she assumed the state of Brahmā. / From the splitting of the egg of the lotus-born Brahmā, who is of the nature of Śaṃkara, / and in front of the world of Brahmā, is that great city made of light, // 18 > which is the abode of the Lord of forms, Īśvara, the supreme Self, / named Śivapura, O Vyāsa, the goal of the yogins devoted to the Lord. // 19 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_72) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 7 sṛṣṭitaṃ ka., saṃskṛtaṃ kha. 8 . . .tma bodhau kha.. 9 sākalyānmuktimāsthāya - ka. . 10 dakṣaraṃ(?) . 11 antarbhāvitaṇyarthotra jajñe śabdaḥ, janayāmāsetyarthaḥ . 12 pūte - kha. . 13 prāptata - ka., prāptamasyādau - kha., prāktanasyādau (?) . 14 ddhaimamaṇḍastu - ka. . 15 mahāntaṃ - ka. kha., mahāntat (?) . 16 brahmatve - ka. . 17 bhidyataḥ (?) . 18 padmaṃ brahmaṇaḥ (?) . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > \[Critical apparatus / variant readings\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_73) 979 śataṃ śatasahasrāṇāṃ yojanānāṃ taducyate . mahīmaṇḍalasaṃsthānaṃ tanmadhye vistṛtaṃ19 smṛtam ..8.183.2 0 .. > It is said to be a hundred hundred-thousand yojanas \[in extent\]; / the configuration of the earthly circle is known to be spread out in its middle. // 20 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_74) sphuradādityarūpeṇa vahneradhikatejasā . mahatā haimajātena20 prākāreṇa suveṣṭitam . .21 . . caturbhirhemajairdvārairmaṇimuktāvibhūṣitaiḥ21 . śobhitaṃ tatpuraṃ22 ramyaṃ śuśubhe siddhasevitam .. 22. . jarāmṛtyuśramavyādhikopamohamadādayaḥ23 . na kramantyaśubhāstasmin bhāvāḥ śivapure mune . .23 .. > Surrounded by a great rampart made of gold, / having the form of the shining sun, with splendor greater than fire, // 21 > with four golden gates adorned with gems and pearls, / that charming city shone, frequented by the perfected ones. // 22 > Old age, death, fatigue, illness, anger, delusion, arrogance, and the like— / such inauspicious states, O sage, do not prevail in that Śivapura. // 23 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_75) śataṃ śatasahasrāṇāṃ yojanānāṃ yathādiśam . tat puraṃ vṛṣabhāṅkasya sarvavyāpi samṛddhimat . . 24.. > One hundred hundred-thousand yojanas in each direction, / that city of the bull-bannered \[god\] is all-pervading and prosperous. // 24 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_76) divyā mārakatī24 bhūmiḥ sparśamātrasukhāvahā25 . vaidūryamaṇikalpāni26 bālārkasadṛśāni ca ..25. . kvacidraktāni padmāni kvacicchvetāni rejire . mahāhradapramāṇāni nālairvaidūryasannibhaiḥ .. 26.. > The divine ground is of emerald, bringing pleasure merely by touch. / Resembling lapis lazuli gems, and like the morning sun, // 25 > in some places red lotuses and in other places white ones shone, / measuring the size of great lakes, with stems resembling lapis lazuli. // 26 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_77) gandhavanti mahārhāṇi vinyastāni mahītale . indranīlanikāśāni mahāmaṇinibhāni ca ..27.. > Fragrant, of great value, spread upon the surface of the ground, / appearing like sapphires and resembling great jewels. // 27 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_78) kacit kṛṣṇārdharaktāni divyagandhavahāni ca . - - - - - - tatra utpalāni samantataḥ ..28.. > In some places half-black and half-red, bearing divine fragrance, / \[…\] there were blue lotuses on all sides. // 28 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_79) pravahanti mahānadyo yāstasminnamṛtodakam . pure bhagavataḥ śambhoḥ pārāśarya nibodha tāḥ27 ..29. . varadā ca vareṇyā ca vareśā varavarṇinī . vārāhī28 vāribhadrā ca varā caiva mahāpagāḥ .. 8.183.30 .. > The great rivers that flow there with waters of nectar / in the city of the blessed Śambhu, learn of them, O son of Parāśara: // 29 > Varadā, Vareṇyā, Vareśā, Varavarṇinī, / Vārāhī, Vāribhadrā, and Varā are the great rivers. // 30 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_80) nānākusumasaṃmiśraṃ tā vahanti jalāmṛtam . na devā na munīndrāśca nāsurāḥ pitaro na ca . .3 1 .. > They carry water-nectar mingled with various flowers. / Neither the gods, nor the lords of sages, nor the asuras, nor the ancestors // 31 > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_81) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 19 vistritaṃ - ka. . 20 jātahemena - ka., jātarūpeṇa (?) . . 21 muktāmaṇivibhūṣitaiḥ (?) . 22 tatparaṃ (?) . 23 mahādayaḥ - ka. . 24 marakatī - ka. . 25 sparśamātrat sukhāvahā (?) . 26 tulyāni(?) . 27 nibodhata - ka. . 28 varāhī - ka. . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > \[Critical apparatus / variant readings\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_82) 980 na caivānye samarthāḥ29 syurjñātuṃ tatpuramadbhutam . antarmanasi buddhā30 ye sarvato bhaktibhāvitāḥ . śivaikamanaso vyāsa tasminmodanti te narāḥ31 ..32. . tasya madhye purendrasya sūryajvalanavarcasaḥ . meruśṛṅgapratīkāśo digbhadrastapanaprabhaḥ ..3 3 . . prāsādo lakṣapādastu kāmagaḥ kanakāmayaḥ . anirīkṣyairmahāratnaiḥ32 samantāt pariśobhitam .. 34.. > 980 / Nor would others be able to know that wondrous city. / Those men who are awakened in their inner minds, filled with devotion in every way, / their thoughts solely on Śiva, rejoice in it, O Vyāsa. / In the middle of that supreme city, which has the brilliance of the sun and fire, / resembling a peak of Meru, facing every quarter, having the splendour of the sun, / \[there is\] a palace of a hundred thousand pillars, moving at will, made of gold, / adorned all around with great, unassailable jewels, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_83) vaidūryairvyomasaṃkāśaiḥ sphāṭikaiścandrasaprabhaiḥ33 . pravālairarkasaṃkāśairindranīlamayaiḥ paraiḥ34 . . 35 .. > with lapis lazuli resembling the sky, crystals possessing the lustre of the moon, / corals resembling the sun, and other \[gems\] made of sapphire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_84) śaśiraśmiprakāśābhiḥ kvacidarkāṃśurūpibhiḥ . śobhitaṃ tatpatākābhirvirarāja sukhānilam . .3 6. . sarvartukusumaiścitrairicchāratnaphalairapi . śuśubhe tatpuraṃ kīrṇaṃ pādapairgirisannibhaiḥ . .37. . mahīdhrāṇāṃ yathā merussarveṣāṃ pravaro mahān . tathaiva tatpuraṃ reje sarvalokopari sthitam . .38. . tatra viśveśvaraḥ sākṣānmahābhūtapatirharaḥ . sadāste sahitaḥ patnyā ṣaḍviṃśaḥ parameśvaraḥ .. 39.. > Adorned with banners shining like rays of the moon and elsewhere having the form of sunbeams, / it shone resplendent, offering pleasant breezes. / That city, strewn with trees resembling mountains, / shone with varied flowers of all seasons and desire-yielding gem-fruits. / Just as Meru among mountains is the supreme and great, / even so that city shone, situated above all the worlds. / There Hara, the Lord of All, directly the master of the great elements, / the twenty-sixth Parameśvara, always dwells together with his wife. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_85) lakṣmīrmedhā dhṛtiścaiva hrīḥ śrīḥ kirttiḥ sarasvatī . umayā sahitāstatra modante lokamātaraḥ . .8.183.40 .. > Lakṣmī, Medhā, Dhṛti, Hrī, Śrī, Kīrti, and Sarasvatī, / the mothers of the worlds, rejoice there together with Umā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_86) śivabhāvarpitātmāno ye narā rudratatparāḥ . yatra tatra mṛtā vatsa teṣāṃ tatrāspadaṃ smṛtama35 ..41 . . ye ca māheśvarā vyāsa tiṣṭhante śaṅkarālaye . munayaḥ śaṅkaraṃ bhaktāstān śṛṇuṣva samāhitaḥ ..42.. > Those men whose souls are offered in Śiva-consciousness, who are devoted to Rudra, / wherever they die, my child, their abode is said to be there. / And those Māheśvaras, O Vyāsa, who dwell in the abode of Śaṅkara, / the sages devoted to Śaṅkara—hear about them with a focused mind: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_87) ahaṃ sanandanaścaiva sanakaḥ sasanātanaḥ . ṛbhurbrahmā surajyeṣṭho naranārāyaṇāvapi . .43 . . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 29 maheśasya - ka. . 30 śuddhā (?) . 31 netarā (re)? . 32 anirīkṣairmahāratnaiḥ - ka, . 33 ścendusaprabhaiḥ ka. kha. . 34 puraiḥ - ka. . 35 ita paraṃ khaṇḍitaṃ ka pustake . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > Myself, Sanandana, Sanaka, Sanātana, / Ṛbhu, Brahmā the eldest of the gods, and Nara and Nārāyaṇa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_88) 981 - - - - - - śiṣyaḥ siddhaḥ pañcaśikhastathā . munirhayaśirā yaśca yajñavalkādayastathā36 ..44.. > 981 / \[…\] the disciple, the perfected Pañcaśikha, / and the sage Hayaśiras, and Yajñavalka and others, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_89) tryakṣāḥ śaṅkaravarṣmāṇaḥ paramaiśvaryasaṃyutāḥ . tiṣṭhantīśvaramūlasthā guṇātītā mumukṣavaḥ . .45. . utpanne jagato nāśe mahāpralayasaṃjñake . īśvaraṃ te samāviśya prāpnuvantyapavargikam ..46 .. > three-eyed, having the bodily forms of Śaṅkara, endowed with supreme power, / beyond the guṇas, desiring liberation, they abide at the base of Īśvara. / When the destruction of the world known as the great dissolution occurs, / they enter into Īśvara and attain the state of liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_90) yaiśca dṛṣṭāni viprendra śivaliṅgāni tāni tu37 . kedāro madhyamaścaiva girīśaśca38 mahālaye . .47. . catuḥśṛṅgeśvaro devaḥ śrīgirau ca maheśvaraḥ . kārohaṇo ca deveśo gaṅgādvāre ca śaṅkaraḥ . bhadreśaśca mahādevaḥ śaṃkukarṇeśvarastathā . .48.. > And by those who have seen those Śivaliṅgas, O best of brahmins: / Kedāra, Madhyama, and Girīśa at Mahālaya; / Lord Catuḥśṛṅgeśvara, and Maheśvara at Śrīgiri; / the Lord of Gods at Kārohaṇa, and Śaṅkara at Gaṅgādvāra; / Bhadreśa Mahādeva, and Śaṅkukarṇeśvara; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_91) mahākāleśvaraścaiva gokarṇe ca tathā hyubhau . avimukteśvaraścaiva yāni cānyāni bhūtale ..49.. > and Mahākāleśvara, and likewise both at Gokarṇa; / and Avimukteśvara, and whichever others exist on the earth— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_92) tepi yānti mṛtā vyāsa tatpuraṃ39 girijāpateḥ . yogaḥ40 pāśupato yaśca mayā te parikīrttitaḥ . . 8.183.50 .. > they too, having died, go to that city of the Lord of the Mountain's Daughter, O Vyāsa. / And the Pāśupata yoga which was proclaimed by me to you, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_93) vrataṃ pāśupataṃ prāpya sopi tatra41 pravartate . bhaktiryeṣāṃ bhave nityaṃ kṛtārthāste narottamāḥ . .51 . . mṛtāḥ śivapure vyāsa tryakṣāḥ paṭṭiśapāṇayaḥ42 . nandīśaskandasaṃkāśā43 yogaiśvaryabalānvitāḥ ..52.. > having undertaken the Pāśupata observance, that too proceeds there. / Those who have perpetual devotion to Bhava—those best of men have accomplished their goal. / Having died \[and gone\] to Śivapura, O Vyāsa, three-eyed, with spears in hand, / resembling Nandīśa and Skanda, endowed with the power of yoga and might, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_94) rudrā bhavanti44 te vyāsa sadā śaṃkarapārśvagāḥ . eṣa te kathitaḥ sarvo yogo māheśvaraḥ paraḥ . .53 . . sakalaṃ niṣkalaṃ caiva jñātvaivaṃ paramīśvaram . sarvabandhavinirmuktaḥ paraṃ45 mokṣamavāpsyasi . .54.. > they become Rudras, O Vyāsa, always accompanying Śaṅkara. / This entire supreme Māheśvara yoga has been related to you. / Knowing thus the Supreme Lord, both with form and without form, / freed from all bonds, you will attain supreme liberation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_95) - - - -- - - - - - - - - 36 yajñāvālkādayastathā - kha. . 37 nibhāni tu(?) . 38 girīśasya - kha . 39 tatpara - kha . 40 yogaṃ - kha. . 41 teṣu - kha. . 42 paṭṭaśapāṇayaḥ - kha' . 43 nandīśāḥ skandasaṃkāśā - kha. . 44 cyavanti - kha, . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > \[Variant readings\] > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_96) 982 bhaviṣyasi ca yogātmā46 jñānasyāsya prabhāvataḥ . jagātsthitikaro yogī smārttadharmapravartakaḥ ..55. . jñānaśaktyā smṛ - - - brahmāṇḍodbhakāraṇe47 . sthitidharmanibodhārthaṃ purāṇāni48 kariṣyasi ..56.. > 982 / And by the power of this knowledge you will become endowed with yoga, / a yogin maintaining the world, the initiator of smārta-dharma. / Through the power of knowledge, remember \[…\] in the cause of the universe's origin, / you will compose the Purāṇas in order to teach the laws of maintenance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_97) yajñadharmapracārārtha vedaṃ svāyambhuvasmṛtam . vijñānāt tvamanusmṛtya caturdhā vikariṣyasi . .57.. > In order to propagate the rites of sacrifice, you, having recollected from special wisdom / the Veda taught by Svayambhū, will divide it into four. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_98) manvantaramidaṃ49 kṛtsnaṃ vaivasvatamaninditam . lokasthitikarā50 dharmā vedasmṛtipurogamāḥ ..58. . tvatkṛtāḥ pracariṣyanti tīrthakṛt tvaṃ bhaviṣyasi . bhasmavrataṃ ca saṃprāpya paśupāśavimocanam . .59.. > Throughout this entire blameless Manvantara of Vaivasvata, / the duties maintaining the world, preceded by the Veda and the Smṛti, / composed by you, will be promulgated; you will become an author of scriptures. / And having obtained the rite of sacred ashes which frees the bound soul from ties, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.19.43\_99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19.43_99) śāṃkarajñānasaṃpanna51 īśvare layamāpsyasi52 . evamuktaḥ sa viprendro hṛṣṭasarvatanūruhaḥ ..8.183.6 0 . . upasadya munīndraṃ taṃ bhasmasaṃskāramāptavān . tatkṣaṇāccāsya yogosau prādurbhūto mahāmuneḥ . .61 . . abhivādya guruṃ vyāso brahmasūnuṃ mahaujasam . śarvāyatanavīkṣārthaṃ vicacāra mahītale . .62 . . vāyuruvāca 53 evaṃ sanatkumārastu pṛṣṭo vyāsena dhīmatā . munīndraḥ kathayāmāsa purāṇaṃ skandasaṃbhavam .. 63 . . sarvāgamasamāyuktaṃ manvantarajagatsthitim . śivayogodbhavaṃ dhyānaṃ sarvajñānārṇavaṃ mahat ..64. . tasmādyūyamapi jñātvā54 vrataṃ pāśupataṃ dvijāḥ . abhyasya śāṃkaraṃ55 yogamīśvare layamāpnuta ..65 . . - - - -- - - - - - - - - 46 yogāt māṃ - kha. . 47 brahmāṇḍe bhavakāraṇe - kha. . 48 purāṇā (ṇa) ñca - kha . 49 ..mimaṃ - kha. . 50 lokasthitikaraṃ - kha. . 51 śaṅkarajñāsaṃpanna - kha. . 52 layameṣyasi (?) . 53 sūta uvāca (?) . 54 prāpya - kha. . 55 śaṅkaraṃ - kha . - - - -- - - - - - - - - > endowed with the knowledge of Śaṃkara, you will attain dissolution in Īśvara.” / Addressed thus, that best of brahmins, all the hair on his body bristling with joy, / approached that chief of sages and received the rite of ashes. / And at that moment this yoga manifested for that great sage. / Having paid homage to his guru, the mighty son of Brahmā, Vyāsa / wandered upon the earth to view the abodes of Śarva. / Vāyu said: / Thus asked by the wise Vyāsa, Sanatkumāra, / the chief of sages, related the Purāṇa originating from Skanda, / endowed with all Āgamas, treating the Manvantara and the maintenance of the world, / arising from Śiva-yoga, \[concerning\] meditation, a great ocean of all knowledge. / Therefore you too, O twice-born, having known the Pāśupata observance / and practiced Śaiva yoga, attain dissolution in Īśvara! > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) _First 100 of 106 passages. [Read on](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19)_ ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.7.19.p1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (4) - [Saurapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.saiva.saura.9.29) — Sanskrit - [Skanda Purāṇa (Kumāra Kavi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skandapurana.72.3) — Kumāra Kavi, Sanskrit - [Hastyāyurveda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.pasu.gaja.hastyayurveda.1.133) — Pālakāpya, Sanskrit - [Śaivasarvasvasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.pratistha.saiva.saivasarvasvasara.4.962) — Vidyāpati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.7.19) · Pramāṇa