Skandapurana 14.57

English (machine translation) 14.57

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Pulastya said: / Then one should go to the Aviyuktavana, best of kings, / upon seeing which a man is never separated from his loved ones. // 1

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There formerly entered Śacī, O king, filled with grief, / when the kingdom of the great Indra, lord of the gods, was seized by Nahuṣa. // 2

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Through its power, Śatakratu, though separated, was recovered; / therefore a boon was granted by her to that forest, O king: // 3

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‘Whether a man or a woman, separated [from a lover], / shall stay for a single night in this auspicious forest in a dwelling with loved ones, // 4

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he shall obtain union with that person again, just as I did; / staying for a single night, he attains residence with his loved ones, O king.’ // 5

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The best among brahmins praise the giving of fruit there, / especially for barren women, because one obtains the fruit of sons. // 6

Thus ends the fifty-seventh chapter, entitled "Description of the Greatness of the Aviyuktakṣetra", in the third section, the Arbudakhaṇḍa, of the seventh book, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. // 57

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit