Skandapurana 17.4

English (machine translation) 17.4

Language: English

17.4.1

Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the well-known Dunnāvilla, / at a distance of a yojana to the west of the station of Maṅgalā, O goddess. // 1

17.4.2

Where, having eaten, the dunnaka was formerly discarded by Bhīma, O beloved, / right there is a divine chasm that provides a great path to Pātāla. // 2

17.4.3

Its ritual procedure was told long ago in the Pātālottarasaṃgraha; / there are many liṅgas there, sixteen abodes of perfections. // 3

17.4.4

Formerly, that place was a mine of gold, O beloved; / men desirous of prosperity should go to that place, O goddess. // 4

Thus ends the fourth chapter, named 'Description of the Glory of the Dunnāvillahṛda Mountain Abode,' in the Vastrāpathakṣetramāhātmya, in the second [sub-section of] Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the seventh part of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 4

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit