Skandapurana 16.73
English (machine translation) 16.73
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Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the excellent Kumāreśvara, / a liṅga of great power indeed, the destroyer of great sins.
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It is situated thirty bow-lengths to the southwest of Varuṇa, O goddess, / located in a spot to the south of Gaurī's penance-grove, O goddess.
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By the Six-faced One, O great goddess, having performed great austerity there, / the great liṅga was installed; hence it became Kumāreśa.
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He who worships it with devotion continuously for one month— / whatever religious merit arises from worshipping for six months,
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all that merit he obtains from a single worship of Kumāreśa / in one day, if he worships according to rule.
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Abandoning desire, anger, greed, attachment, and malice, / becoming a celibate student or ascetic, he should worship it even once.
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When it is worshipped thus, O goddess, he obtains the full fruit of the pilgrimage.
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Thus ends the seventy-third chapter, named 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Kumāreśvara,' 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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