Skandapurana 16.44

English (machine translation) 16.44

Language: English

16.44.1

Īśvara said:
Having worshipped Ādityeśa, one should go again to Someśvara.
Having worshipped him according to the rules, especially with five parts of the body, / 1

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and beholding Someśvara, having prostrated with eight limbs,
one should perform circumambulation and the like, and gaze upon [him] again and again. / 2

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Restrained and pure, having done so thrice before the liṅga of Sūrya and the Moon,
all rites characterized by Agni and Soma have thereby been performed by him. / 3

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Then one should go to goddess Umā near Someśvara;
then one should go to the second near Daityasūdana. / 4

Thus ends the forty-fourth chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Someśvara, in the first [part], the Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsa section, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. / 44

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit