Skandapurana 16.97
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Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to what is renowned as Yogeśvara, / situated seven dhanuses to the north-west of Kāmeśa. 1
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A liṅga indeed of great power, destroying sin by its mere darśana; / in the former yuga it was accounted and renowned as Gaṇeśvara. 2
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Anciently, O goddess, my countless attendants of great strength, / recognizing Prabhāsa to be a sacred field of Maheśvara, came there. 3
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Staying there, taking resort to yoga, they performed terrible austerity / for a thousand divine years; thereupon Maheśvara was pleased, 4
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and by the power of their yoga he granted them liberation consisting of dwelling in the same world [with him]. 3 [5a]
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Because the bull-bannered god was pleased with them through the six-limbed yoga, / therefore the liṅga is named Yogeśvara, granting the fruit of yoga. 5 [5b-c]
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He who worships it with devotion according to the proper ritual rules / attains the perfection of yoga and rejoices in heaven like a god. 6
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He who would give a golden Meru and the entire earth— / yet he who worships Yogeśa is remembered as superior to both. 7
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A bull should be given there for the sake of the complete fruit. / Thus eleven Rudras dwelling in Prabhāsa have been proclaimed; / they must be constantly worshipped and revered by those desiring the fruit of the sacred field. 8
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And whoever hears this collection of the eleven Rudras / gains the entire fruit of the sacred field of one who dwells within Prabhāsa. 9
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And he who does not know these Rudras dwelling in Prabhāsa, / even though he resides in the middle of the sacred field, is considered non-existent, a beast. 10
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Having worshipped all these Rudras, or even just one, / [or] Someśvara, if one recites the Śatarudrīya, / he obtains the merit of all the Rudras; of this there is no doubt. 11
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This secret māhātmya of the Rudras has been declared to you, O passionate lady; / heard, it dispels sin and increases merit. 12
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Thus ends the ninety-seventh chapter, named “The Description of the Māhātmya of Yogeśvara,” in the first [part], the Māhātmya of the Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh [book], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand [verses]. 97
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- Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit