Skandapurana 16.112
English (machine translation) 16.112
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16.112.1
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to the supreme Lakṣmaṇeśvara, / situated thirty bow-lengths to the east of Rāmeśa.
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It was installed indeed by Lakṣmaṇa when he had gone there on pilgrimage; / that liṅga, worshipped by the gods, removes great sin, O goddess.
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Whoever worships it with devotion, with dances, songs, musical instruments, and the like, / with oblations and recitations, steady in concentration, goes to the supreme state.
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Food, water, and gold should be given there to a twice-born, / having worshipped the god of the gods of gods duly with fragrant paste, flowers, and the like.
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On the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight of Māgha, there is special merit in worship there; / ritual ablution, gifting, and recitation there become the cause of imperishable [merit].
16.112.112
Thus ends the one hundred and twelfth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Lakṣmaṇeśvara in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Rāmeśvara', in the first [part], the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Prabhāsa, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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- Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit