Skandapurana 16.89
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Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O fair-hipped lady, to the supreme Kapālīśvara, / the third Rudra, destroyer of sins, east of Nīlarudra, 1
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situated seven bow-lengths to the west of Budheśvara. / Long ago, O goddess, I severed the fifth head of Brahmā. 2
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With that skull clinging to my hand, I came to Prabhāsakṣetra. / Then for a thousand years I remained in the midst of the sacred field. 3
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Holding the skull, sky-clad, I was therefore remembered as Kapālī. / That liṅga was worshipped by me for ten thousand years, O beloved. 4
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Having assumed the form of Kapālī, he is therefore remembered as Kapālīśa; / he removes all sins of mortals through mere darśana and touch. 5
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There I appointed trident-bearing gaṇas / by the thousands, O goddess, for protection against sinners of wicked mind. 6
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Therefore, with every effort and endowed with full faith, / one should worship that faultless Mahādeva, Kapālin. 7
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Gold should be given there to a brahmin who has mastered the Vedas, / having duly worshipped [the liṅga] with the Tatpuruṣa mantra. 8
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Whatever sin has been amassed by living beings from birth onwards, / beholding that liṅga during the Ṣaḍaśītimukha destroys it. 9
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Thus, in brief, has been declared the sin-destroying māhātmya / of the third god, Kapālirudra, O fair-faced lady. 7.1.89.10
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Thus ends the eighty-ninth chapter, entitled "Description of the Māhātmya of Kapālīśvara", in the Māhātmya of the Eleven Rudras, in the first Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. 89
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