Skandapurana 16.42
English (machine translation) 16.42
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Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to Caṇḍīśa, the supreme god,
situated seven bow-lengths in the north-eastern direction from Someśa, / 1
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not very far to the south of the residence of Daṇḍapāṇi.
It was consecrated formerly by Caṇḍī, and subsequently worshipped by Caṇḍa, / 2
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my gaṇa, O ruler of gods, after performing severe austerity.
Therefore that Caṇḍeśvara liṅga is renowned across the surface of the earth. / 3
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One should first bathe it with milk, and then with curds joined with ghee,
with honey, sugarcane juice, and smear it with saffron, / 4
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with musk-juice mixed with camphor and uśīra,
and with fragrant sandalpaste; then one should worship it with flowers. / 5
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Having burnt incense and agallochum before the god, O goddess,
one should afterwards worship with garments according to one’s wealth. / 6
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Having offered food offerings, supreme rice, together with lamps,
one should then give a sacrificial fee to twice-borns according to one's means. / 7
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Whatever is given there towards the southern direction
of Caṇḍīśa, O lady of fair hips, all that becomes inexhaustible. / 8
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The man who performs a śrāddha there to the south of Caṇḍīśa,
his ancestors attain satisfaction until the end of the kalpa, O beautiful lady. / 9
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And when the northern solstice has arrived, whoever offers a blanket of ghee,
he does not obtain terrible rebirth again in this saṃsāra. / 10
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Performing thus with devotion the pilgrimage to the trident-bearing god,
a creature is released from the sins arising from stepping on discarded offerings,
from eating [them] through ignorance, and likewise from others born of actions. / 11
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Thus ends the forty-second chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Caṇḍīśa, in the first [part], the Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsa section, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. / 42
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