Skandapurana 16.78
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Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the god Vaiśvānareśvara, / situated in the south-eastern corner of that very [shrine], at a distance of five bow-lengths.
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It destroys the sins of all living beings through darśana and even through touch. / Formerly, a certain parrot made a nest there, O goddess.
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Residing in the temple with his wife, he stayed for a very long time; / then the pair continually made circumambulation [of the temple]
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due to the constraint of their nest, O goddess, and not by devotion at all. / In the course of long time, the two met their death.
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By virtue of that, they were born on earth, remembering their former births, as it is told, / and achieved the supreme fame under the names Lopāmudrā and Agastya.
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Then a song was formerly sung by the great-souled Agastya, / born of his experience in wonder as he recalled his previous body:
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“Whoever gazes upon the Lord of Fire after duly performing circumambulation / surely attains renown, just as I did from this [place] formerly.”
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Thus, O goddess, the māhātmya dedicated to the god of fire has been told to you; / when heard, it removes the sins of mortals and grants the fruit of all desires.
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Bathing him with clarified butter, one should worship him according to rule; / and endowed with perfect faith, one should give gold to an eminent brahmin, O prince of sages.
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Having acted thus according to rite, he obtains the full fruit of the pilgrimage; / and reaching the realm of Agni, he rejoices for imperishable time.
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Thus ends the seventy-eighth chapter, named ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Vaiśvānareśvara’, in the first Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya of the seventh Prabhāsa section, in the Skanda-Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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