Skandapurana 16.71
English (machine translation) 16.71
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Then, O great goddess, one should go to the liṅga situated right there, / situated three bow-lengths to the south of Varuṇeśa.
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By the wife of Varuṇa named Uṣā, O fair-faced one, / having performed very terrible austerity when overcome with sorrow for her husband,
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the great liṅga was established, which grants all perfections, / renowned as Uṣeśvara and worshipped by all the perfected ones.
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He who worships with devotion that liṅga which destroys sin, / even though laden with a multitude of great sins, goes to the supreme state.
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It yields the fruit of good fortune for women, and destroys grief and misfortune.
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Thus ends the seventy-first chapter, named 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Uṣeśvara,' in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa containing eighty-one thousand verses.
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