[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt) › 14.47 # Skandapurana 14.47 English (machine translation) 14.47 - **Language:** English ### [14.47.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.1) Pulastya said: / 'Then, O best of kings, one should go to the very complete hermitage of Gautama, where austerity was formerly performed by the great-souled Gautama. ### [14.47.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.2) Formerly there was a sage named Gautama, supremely righteous; with devotion he worshipped the god of gods, Maheśvara. ### [14.47.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.3) As he worshipped with devotion, cleaving through the surface of the earth, a great liṅga arose, supreme and dedicated to Maheśvara, O king. ### [14.47.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.4) At that very time, a bodiless voice spoke: "Worship this great liṅga, which has appeared because of your devotion. / Choose a boon—may good betide you—whatever is in your heart." ### [14.47.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.5) Gautama said: / "O god, O Śambhu, O Lord of the universe, if you are pleased with me, O Lord, you must always maintain your presence here in this hermitage. ### [14.47.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.6) May whoever sees you with true devotion go to Brahmaloka." ### [14.47.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.7) The voice from the sky said: / "Whoever beholds me here on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight in the month of Māgha, O best of brahmins, shall attain the supreme goal."' ### [14.47.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.8) Having spoken thus, the voice then fell silent, O lord of the earth. / There is another pure pool there, filled with water; / a man who bathes there instantly saves his entire family. ### [14.47.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.9) Whoever performs a śrāddha there, especially on the new moon, / certainly obtains the entire fruit of a Gayā-śrāddha. ### [14.47.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.10) The best among sages praise the gifting of sesame seeds there; / from the gift of sesame seeds, O king, one may dwell in heaven for as many years as there are seeds. ### [14.47.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.11) On Arbuda, the Gautamī pilgrimage when Jupiter is in Leo, / on a new moon falling on a Monday, yields twelve times the fruit of the Godāvarī. ### [14.47.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.12) Immersion in the Bhāgīrathī for sixty thousand years / \[equals\] a single ritual ablution in the Godāvarī when Jupiter is in Leo. ### [14.47.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47.47) Thus ends the forty-seventh chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Sacred Ford of Gautama’s Hermitage', in the third \[section\], the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh \[part\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, the Mahāpurāṇa in eighty-one thousand verses. ## Linked texts (1) - [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.14.47.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.14.47) · Pramāṇa