Skandapurana 16.51
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Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the Ketu-liṅga of great splendor, / to the north of Rāhvīśāna and to the south of Maṅgalā, 1
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situated at a distance of a bow, not very far away; / it is indeed a liṅga of great power, destroying all wicked deeds. 2
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The planet named Ketu is extremely fierce, yet suffused with devotion to Śiva; / he is round, extremely vast, and terrifying to behold with one's eyes. 3
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Resembling straw smoke, he removes planetary affliction. / There he performed fierce tapas for a hundred divine years, O beloved. 4
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Pleased with him, Mahādeva granted him the status of a planet, O beloved, / and the sovereignty over eleven hundred planets. 5
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One should worship with devotion the Ketu-liṅga of great splendor situated there; / especially when it is beheld during the terrible rising of Ketu, 6
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and during fierce planetary afflictions, one should worship it according to the rule / with flowers, scents, incenses, and various auspicious food offerings. 7
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One should duly propitiate the god Ketu, the destroyer of sins. 8
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Thus has been briefly described the Ketu-liṅga of great fortune, / which pacifies planetary affliction and destroys all sins. 9
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These nine liṅgas of the planets have been told to you; / for the man who sees them daily, whence can there be fear of affliction? 10
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In his family no one is born unfortunate, diseased, or sorrowful; / the great planets protect him like a son, O goddess. 11
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Thus, O beloved, the fourteen sanctuaries have been described to you properly, / beginning with Vighneśvara and ending with the one established by Ketu. 12
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Having heard the māhātmya of the Navagraheśvaras, which destroys sin, / and likewise that of the five liṅgas, one is freed from sins. 13
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No unmeritorious man knows the five Mudrā-liṅgas / beginning with Kapardin and ending with Caṇḍanātha. 14
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No one else knows the liṅgas of the nine planets / beginning with Sūryeśvara and ending with the Ketu-liṅga. 15
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Thus has the group of fourteen sanctuaries been declared; / and whoever knows this with devotion enjoys the fruit of the sacred field. 16
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Thus ends the fifty-first chapter, entitled “Description of the Māhātmya of Ketvīśvara,” in the first Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses]. 51
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