Skandapurana 16.65
English (machine translation) 16.65
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Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to the liṅga indeed called Vāḍaveśvara,
to the north of Lakṣmīśa and to the south of Viśālākṣī,
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which is situated there, possessed of great power, established by Vāḍava.
When the Kṛtasmara mountain was burnt by the submarine fire,
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having leveled the entire place, he established that liṅga.
One should worship that Śaṃkara according to rule after bathing him ten times.
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And one should give curds there to a brahmin who has mastered the Vedas.
He attains the world of Agni and receives the full fruit of the pilgrimage.
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Thus ends the sixty-fifth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Vāḍaveśvara,' in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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