Skandapurana 16.201
English (machine translation) 16.201
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Īśvara said: / In that place, O great goddess, is the cremation ground Kālabhairava, / [extending] from Brahmakuṇḍa, O fair-hipped one, as far as the deity Kṛtasmara.
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Whatever living beings are burned there, or die through the vicissitude of time, / all of them attain liberation, even if they are guilty of great sins.
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From Kṛtasmara, O great goddess, as far as Maṅkīśvara stands, / that, O goddess, is the great cremation ground that bestows freedom from rebirth.
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In that place where the breath of living beings flows equally, O beloved, / there the kṣetra is known as saline soil; it is ever dearer to me.
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Even at the end of an eon I do not abandon it; it is dearer to me [even] than Avimukta.
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Thus ends the two hundred and first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Kālabhairava Cremation Ground', in the First [Part], the Glory of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, of the Seventh Section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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'Where the breath of living beings flows equally, O beloved'—by this the examination of that great cremation ground is stated: in which place the viṣuva flows for living beings residing there—namely, the outflow of exhalation and inhalation happens equally from both nostrils, meaning the arising of suṣumnā occurs—that great cremation ground bestows freedom from rebirth; this is the meaning to be understood. —Commentary on the Skandapurāṇa.
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