Skandapurana 7.4.52_38.23

7.4.52_38.23

tvameva devi yacchāsmai varāniṣṭān yathāsukham .
anujñātā mayā subhru tvamevāsya varaṃ diśa . . 193 . .
sanatkumāra uvāca
tatastau devadeveśau saṅgatau svagaṇairvṛtau .
ūcatuḥ paśya dakṣāvāṃ tuṣṭau divyena cakṣuṣā .. 194. .
prācetasa mahābhāga varadau svo295 mahātapaḥ .
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śāpaśāntyarthamet296 te varaṃ dadmi tavepsitam .
yaste yajño gaṇairdhvastaḥ phalaṃ tasya tvamāpnuhi ..1 96. .
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285 samāsthitam - kha. . 286 devī - kha . 287 kṣatroyaṃ - gha . 288 maunī - gha. . 289 cāyaṃ - gha. . 290 vinihita - gha- . 291 tattasya - gha. . 292 tvaṃ svabhāvasya - gha. . 293 prasannasya - kha. . 294 śaraṇaṃ dehi deveśa nānyavrataratasya ca - gha. . 295 varado -kha., varadosmi - ka . 296 tapaḥ śāntyarthametat - gha. .
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kāmarūpadharaḥ śrīmān gaṇeśaśca bhavasva me .
akṣayaścāmaraścaiva297 duḥkhaśokavivarjitaḥ .
bhaviṣyasi mahābhāga mama caiva samīpagaḥ ..197..
devyuvāca
śṛṇuṣva298 bhūyaḥ kiṃ cānyat prayacchatu maheśvaraḥ .
suduṣkaramapi hyeṣa varaṃ dadyāt tvayārthitaḥ299 ..198..
sanatkumāra uvāca
evamuktastadā dakṣo himavatsutayā tayā .
prāñjaliḥ praṇato300 bhūtvā idamāha mahāmatiḥ301 ..199..
dakṣa uvāca
yo devastribhuvanajanmanāśakartā yaṃ mūḍhā na viduranuktamekameva302 .
bhaktānāmaśubhaharaṃ pinākapāṇiṃ taṃ devaṃ śaraṇagatā vayaṃ sabhārm ..8.32.20 0..
yojñānā303dasuratayātimānamohānnāsmābhissaha khalu pūjitodriputryā .

“O goddess, you yourself grant him the desired boons as you please. / Permitted by me, O fair-browed one, bestow the boon upon him yourself.” / Sanatkumāra said: / Then those two rulers of the gods, united and surrounded by their own gaṇas, / said: “Behold us two, O Dakṣa, who are pleased, with divine vision! / O son of Pracetas, O highly fortunate one of great austerity, we two are givers of boons! / [...] / For the pacification of the curse, I grant you this desired boon: / That sacrifice of yours which was destroyed by the gaṇas—attain its fruit! / Assuming forms at will, glorious, become a gaṇeśa for me; / imperishable and immortal, free from sorrow and grief, / you will be, O highly fortunate one, close beside me.” / The goddess said: / “Listen again: what else should Maheśvara bestow? / Even if it is very difficult to grant, he will bestow the boon requested by you.” / Sanatkumāra said: / Having been thus addressed then by that daughter of the Himavat, / the wise Dakṣa, with folded hands, having bowed down, said this: / Dakṣa said: / “The god who is the maker of the origin and destruction of the three worlds, whom the foolish do not know, the single, unmanifest one, / the remover of inauspiciousness for devotees, holding the Pināka bow in hand—to that god we, together with our wife, have gone for refuge! / Who out of ignorance, due to demonic nature, and through excessive pride and delusion, was not indeed worshipped by us along with the Daughter of the Mountain—”