Skandapurana 16.283

English (machine translation) 16.283

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Īśvara said: / Seeing that Mada with a terrible mouth approaching, about to devour him, / with his jaws open like the God of Death,

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frightened by his paralysed state, while [the monster] licked his lips again and again, / afflicted by fear, [Indra] bowed down and addressed Cyavana, O great goddess:

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'From this day forward, these two Aśvins shall be worthy of soma, O Bhārgava; / it will all be so—I speak the truth to you!

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Let your undertaking not prove in vain, O rich in austerity; / and I know, O brahmin seer, that you will not act in vain.

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These two Aśvins are worthy of soma, just as they have been made by you today; / but [it was done] so that your prowess might shine forth even more, O Bhārgava,

and so that the father of Sukanyā might gain fame in the world; / therefore this revelation of your prowess was brought about by me. / Therefore show favour to me; let this happen just as you desire.'

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When the great-souled Cyavana was thus addressed by Śakra, / his anger subsided quickly, and so too did the pride of the ruler of the gods.

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And the powerful one divided Mada, O goddess, which he had created before, / again and again into liquor, women, dice, and hunting; / having thus distributed Mada and having satisfied Śakra with soma,

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and having officiated at the sacrifice for that king along with all [the gods] including the two Aśvins, / making his prowess renowned across all worlds, O fair-complexioned one,

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he roamed about with Sukanyā in the great forest in this sacred field. / Connected with him, O goddess, is this [shrine] bearing the name Cyavaneśvara,

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a liṅga removing great sins, installed by Cyavana. / Whoever worships it according to rule obtains the fruit of an horse sacrifice.

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Therefore seers wait upon Candramas' sacred ford, / namely the seers called Vaikhānasa and likewise the Vālakhilyas.

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If a man performs a śrāddha here according to rule, especially on the full-moon day in the month of Āśvina, / and feeds brahmins individually, / his fruit will be equal to ten million sacred fords; there is no doubt about this.

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Whoever listens to this sin-destroying story, O goddess, / shall become freed from the sins born of all his lifetimes.

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Thus ends the two hundred and eighty-third chapter, named 'The Description of the Glory of Cyavaneśvara', in the first [part], the Glory of Prabhāsa Field, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsa Section, in the compilation of eighty-one thousand [verses] in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit