Skandapurana 16.45
English (machine translation) 16.45
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Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to the excellent Aṅgāreśvara,
established by the son of the Earth within the range of north-east from Someśa. / 1
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Anciently, O lovely-faced lady, when I desired to burn Tripura,
a tear came forth out of anger from my trio of eyes. / 2
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And that fell on the ground; then the son of the Earth was born.
He, having gone to Prabhāsa, propitiated Śaṃkara with austerity / 3
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from his childhood for many groups of years, O beloved.
Mahādeva, pleased with him and well-disposed in mind, granted a boon. / 4
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He said: ‘If you are pleased with me, O god whose banner bears a bull,
grant [me] the status of a planet, O Lord of all; I do not desire any other boon.’ / 5
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Having promised ‘So be it’, he spoke this word again to him:
‘Whichsoever person, having arrived here, worships me with devotion, / 6
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no affliction caused by you shall ever befall him.
Red-colored flowers in abundance smeared with honey and ghee, / 7
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whoever offers as oblation in fire with devotion, one hundred thousand before it,
having worshipped you carefully by the rite of fivefold service, / 8
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as long as his life lasts there shall be no affliction from you;
likewise, through the gift of coral, he will obtain his desired fruit.’ / 9
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Having spoken thus, the Lord disappeared right there.
Bhauma also, abiding in the midst of the planets, shines in an aerial chariot. / 10
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Thus the excellent greatness of Bhauma has been declared in brief;
heard, it removes sins and bestows good health. / 11
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Thus ends the forty-fifth chapter, named the Description of the Greatness of Aṅgāreśvara, in the first [part], the Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra, in the seventh Prabhāsa section, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. / 45
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