Skandapurana 16.173
English (machine translation) 16.173
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Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the four liṅgas / situated in a single place to the west of Sāvitrī there. (1)
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A pair of liṅgas is in the east, and two face them in the west. / The first is known as the liṅga named Kuśakeśvara; (2)
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the second is Gargeśvara, the third is Puṣkareśvara, / and the fourth is declared by the name Maitreyeśvara. (3)
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Whoever, with senses conquered, sees these liṅgas with devotion, / freed from all sins, goes to the great city of Śiva. (4)
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Having made ritual ablution with effort, especially on the fourteenth of the bright fortnight in Vaiśākha, / one should feed brahmins there. (5)
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One should give them gold and garments according to one’s ability. / When this is done, O ruler of the gods, the pilgrimage becomes complete. (6)
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Thus ends the one hundred and seventy-third chapter, named “Description of the Māhātmya of the Four Liṅgas Beginning with Kuśaka,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [khaṇḍa], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. (173)
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