Skandapurana 16.321
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Īśvara said: / Now I shall proclaim to you the secret supreme place / that removes all sins for mortals who dwell in the Unnata place: 1
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The māhātmya of the foremost god, Brahmā, whose birth is unmanifest, / of that god residing in the Unnata place in the form of a child, / merely by the sight of whom one is released from all sins. 2
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The goddess said: / Tell me how he who is called 'in the form of a child' came to Unnata; / in all other places the Grandfather is in the form of an old man. 3
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In what place did he dwell there, and for what purpose did he go there? / How is he to be worshipped by the lords of brahmins, and on which lunar day? Explain in order. 4
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Īśvara said: / To the west of the Ṛṣitoyā, but to the north-east of Sthalakeśvara, / is the supreme place of Brahmā, like a second Brahmaloka. 5
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Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Rudra are always to be worshipped in the Prabhāsa region. / Brahmā resides in the Brahmā sector on the auspicious bank of the Ṛṣitoyā; 6
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the eternal Rudra is to be worshipped in the Rudra sector at Agnitīrtha; / Hari as Dāmodara is to be worshipped on the delightful Mount Raivataka. 7
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Requested by Soma, the divine Grandfather assumed the form of a child / and, being eight years old, arrived at the excellent Unnata place. 8
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Beholding the foremost brahmins, the all-pervading Brahmā took up residence in that place. 9
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There is no god equal to Brahmā; there is no guru equal to Brahmā; / there is no knowledge equal to Brahmā; there is no austerity equal to Brahmā. 10
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They wander in saṃsāra, overwhelmed by misery, grief, and fear, / only so long as they do not become devoted to the eldest of the gods, the Grandfather. 11
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Just as a creature's mind is deeply attached to the sphere of sense objects, / if it were fixed upon Brahmā in that same way, who would not be liberated from bondage? 12
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The utmost life-span is attributed to Brahmā, and one half of his span has indeed passed; / for him who dwells in the Unnata place, the second half will occur now. 13
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When this Grandfather came to the Unnata place from Brahmaloka / at eight years of age, he is then said to be 'in the form of a child'. 14
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In other places of the brahmins the Grandfather is in the form of an old man; / that Unnata place is endowed [with merit] and is always dear to Brahmā. 15
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Having first bathed according to rule in the Brahmakuṇḍa, O best of men, / one should worship Brahmā in the form of a child with flowers, incense, and the like. 16
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Thus ends the three hundred and twenty-first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Greatness of Brahmā at the Unnata Place', in the Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, the first [part] in the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa, the seventh [book] of the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses]. 321
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