Skandapurana 1.2.23

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“Becoming a horse among the Kāmbojas, radiant with splendor, my friend

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became your royal mount, O best of kings! // 1

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And I, having become a musk-deer, with the fragrant rut

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produced from my own body, wandered about this mountain. // 2

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O righteous-souled one, by you, who arrived now on the pretext of hunting,

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we both have indeed been made to complete the circumambulation of the Lord of the Red Mountain.” // 3

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Because of the fault of riding a mount, such became your condition;

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by the merit of moving on foot, our former station has been regained by the two of us. // 4

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O king of kings, through association with you, from this bondage of bestial form

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the two of us are liberated and have reached our own abode; may there always be welfare for you! // 5

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Having spoken thus, as Kalādhara and Kāntiśālin

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were eager to go to their own abode, the king, with folded hands, addressed [them]: // 6

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“Thus, by the power of Śaṃkara of the Crimson Mountain,

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you two have crossed over the ocean of the curse; how can my elevation come about again? // 7

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My inner mind seems to wander upon fixing its attention on that;

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my life-breaths seem to depart; fate is all-powerful in this matter.” // 8

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“Listen, we two shall tell you the means of deliverance which bestows it,

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with a concentrated mind, with all mental anguish shaken off: // 9

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On the Lord of creation, maintenance, destruction, dispensation, and grace toward the universe,

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on the Lord of Aruṇādri, the treasure of compassion, fix your mind. // 10

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Now the sovereign majesty of this God has been witnessed by you,

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who bestows such a state as this upon us two who were animals. // 11

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Perform circumambulation going on foot; with white water-lilies

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honored with musk, worship the Lord, the God fond of musk. // 12

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Whatever wealth is yours, all of it, O lord,

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dedicate for the renewal of the enclosing walls, gateway towers, and halls. // 13

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Before long indeed your perfection shall become very great,

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greater [even] than that of Manu, Māndhātṛ, Nābhāga, and Bhagīratha.” // 14

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Having heard this, and when those two Vidyādharas had straightway departed for their own abode, the king of men,

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with an indubitable mind, devoted at that time, formed devotion to the Lord of Aruṇādri. // 15

Thus ends the twenty-third chapter, named ‘Description of the History of Kalādhara and Kāntiśālin,’ in the latter half of the Aruṇācalamāhātmya, in the first Māheśvarakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses]. // 23

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit