Skandapurana 7.4.52_169

7.4.52_169

etadvistaraśastāta saṃkṣepādvā yathātatham .
tvattohaṃ śrotumicchāmi hitaṃ sarvasukhāvaham ..43 . .
sūta uvāca
sa evamuktaḥ surasṛksutaḥ prabhuḥ62 rvimānakartā63 vigataprayojanaḥ .
jagāda vākyaṃ suraloka64 vardhanaḥ65 purākṛtaṃ (?) duṣkṛtasarvanāśanam ..44. .
iti skandapurāṇe sukeśavarapradānaṃ nāma paṃcatriśodhyāyaḥ
sanatkumāra uvāca
trikūṭaśikhare tasminnagare devanirmite .
āsīnaḥ1 kāñcane divye vimāne strīsamākule2 . . 1 ..

This I wish to hear from you, dear father, either in detail or in brief, in its true nature— / beneficial and conveying all happiness. / Sūta said: / Thus addressed, that lord, son of the creator of the gods, creator of aerial chariots, free of self-interest, / who increases the realm of the gods, spoke words concerning what was done in the past, destroying all evil deeds. / Thus ends the thirty-fifth chapter, named The Granting of Boons to Sukeśa, in the Skandapurāṇa. / Sanatkumāra said: / Seated upon the peak of Trikūṭa in that divine-built city, / in a celestial golden aerial chariot crowded with women,