[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt) › 4.49 # Skandapurana 4.49 English (machine translation) 4.49 - **Language:** English ### [4.49.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.1) Sūta said: ### [4.49.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.2) O sage Vyāsa, son of Parāśara, when Kumāra spoke this story ### [4.49.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.3) to the pitcher-born \[Agastya\], where was the daughter of Drupada then? // 1 ### [4.49.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.4) Vyāsa said: ### [4.49.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.5) The Purāṇa compilation, O Sūta, recounts stories of past, present, and future; ### [4.49.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.6) no doubt should be raised here, since everything is within its scope. // 2 ### [4.49.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.7) Skanda said: ### [4.49.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.8) Listen, O sage! Formerly, the five-faced Hara himself, ### [4.49.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.9) for the welfare of the world, manifested on earth by dividing into five forms. // 3 ### [4.49.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.10) Umā too, the maintainer of the world, as king Drupada ### [4.49.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.11) was sacrificing, manifested from the fire altar as a beautiful woman. // 4 ### [4.49.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.12) All five sons of Pāṇḍu, bearing the very bodies of Rudra, ### [4.49.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.13) descended here from heaven, bringing about the destruction of the wicked. // 5 ### [4.49.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.14) Nārāyaṇa too, attaining the state of Kṛṣṇa, accompanied them, ### [4.49.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.15) quelling the conduct of the arrogant, establishing the ways of the virtuous. // 6 ### [4.49.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.16) Blazing upon the earth, those sons of Pṛthā wandered individually ### [4.49.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.17) through the rise and fall of both good fortune and adversity. // 7 ### [4.49.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.18) Once, those great heroes, having met with great misfortune ### [4.49.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.19) brought about by their cousins, became forest-dwellers. // 8 ### [4.49.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.20) Pāñcālī too, their slender-bodied wife, knowing righteousness, tormented by her husbands' plight, ### [4.49.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.21) having arrived \[there\], worshipped the sun-god intensely. // 9 ### [4.49.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.22) Then Savitṛ, worshipped by that daughter of Drupada, ### [4.49.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.23) gave her an inexhaustible cooking vessel, along with a ladle and lid. // 10 ### [4.49.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.24) And the sun-god, gracious at heart, said to the daughter of Drupada ### [4.49.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.25) as she worshipped with devotion, pure in mind everywhere: // 11 ### [4.49.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.26) "O fortunate lady, by means of this vessel, as many people as desire food ### [4.49.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.27) will attain satisfaction, as long as you yourself have not eaten. // 12 ### [4.49.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.28) Once you have eaten, it becomes empty; \[otherwise\] it will be full of boiled rice, ### [4.49.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.29) a treasury of savoury dishes, granting food according to one's wish." // 13 ### [4.49.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.30) In this way the boon was obtained by her from the Sun in Kāśī, O sage; ### [4.49.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.31) and another boon was given to her by the radiant god. // 14 ### [4.49.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.32) The Sun said: ### [4.49.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.33) "To the south of Viśveśa, whoever worships me ### [4.49.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.34) stationed before you—that person's affliction of hunger will be destroyed. // 15 ### [4.49.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.35) And another boon has been given to me, O faithful wife, by Viśveśa, ### [4.49.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.36) delighted by my austerity; listen, I speak it to you: // 16 ### [4.49.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.37) 'A person who, having first worshipped you, beholds me— ### [4.49.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.38) dispel that person's darkness of sorrow with your rays!' // 17 ### [4.49.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.39) Therefore, O beloved of Dharma, having received this boon forever from Viśveśvara, ### [4.49.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.40) I destroy the heap of sins of living beings dwelling in Kāśī. // 18 ### [4.49.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.41) Those mortals who worship me here, endowed with faith, ### [4.49.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.42) as I hold out my hand to grant your boon—to them I will give what they desire. // 19 ### [4.49.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.43) Those who with devotion worship you, the faithful wife of Yudhiṣṭhira, ### [4.49.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.44) standing near me, to the south of Viśveśa, in the vicinity of Daṇḍapāṇi, ### [4.49.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.45) whether men or women, ### [4.49.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.46) for them there will never be any fear born of separation from loved ones, // 21 ### [4.49.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.47) nor fear arising from disease anywhere, nor that caused by the defects of hunger and thirst, ### [4.49.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.48) from beholding Draupadī in Kāśī, O sinless one, dear to Dharma!" // 22 ### [4.49.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.49) Having thus granted boons, the divine Sun, giver of all to the good, ### [4.49.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.50) worshipped Śambhu, and Draupadī went to Dharma. // 23 ### [4.49.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.51) Whoever listens with devotion to this story of the Sun ### [4.49.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.52) who was worshipped by Draupadī—that person's sin will perish. // 24 ### [4.49.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.53) Skanda said: ### [4.49.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.54) The māhātmya of Draupadāditya has been related in brief by me; ### [4.49.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.55) now listen, O pitcher-born one, to the māhātmya of Mayūkhāditya. // 25 ### [4.49.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.56) Formerly, at the sacred ford Pañcanada, renowned throughout the three worlds, ### [4.49.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.57) the thousand-rayed Lord performed very severe austerity, // 26 ### [4.49.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.58) having installed a great liṅga named Gabhastīśvara. ### [4.49.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.59) and \[installing\] Gaurī named Maṅgalā, who ever grants auspiciousness to her devotees, ### [4.49.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.60) for a thousand divine years multiplied by a hundred, O sage, ### [4.49.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.61) worshipping Śiva accompanied by Umā, who wears the crescent moon as his crest-jewel. ### [4.49.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.62) By his very nature the sun is capable of scorching the three worlds; ### [4.49.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.63) therefore, by his intense austerity, he blazed exceedingly, O sage. ### [4.49.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.64) Then, by the rays of the sun capable of burning the three worlds, ### [4.49.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.65) the entire intermediate space between heaven and earth was filled at that time. ### [4.49.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.66) Passengers of aerial chariots abandoned their coming and going in the sky, ### [4.49.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.67) as if out of fear of becoming moths before the fierce radiance of the sun. ### [4.49.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.68) Only rays could be seen—slantwise, upward, and even downward— ### [4.49.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.69) of the sun, and not the sun himself, as though resembling a blooming nīpa flower. ### [4.49.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.70) From that mass of light, that mass of austerity, \[and\] those flames of austerity, ### [4.49.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.71) the three worlds, with all that moves and is still, trembled from intense fear: ### [4.49.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.72) “The sun is proclaimed in the Vedas as the soul of this world. ### [4.49.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.73) If he himself becomes the burner, who will be our protector here? ### [4.49.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.74) This sun is the eye of the world; this illuminator is the soul of the world, ### [4.49.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.75) who awakens the world morning after morning when it is almost like dead. ### [4.49.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.76) Rising day after day, \[he rescues\] the host of living beings ### [4.49.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.77) fallen into the blind well of darkness, extending his hands all around. ### [4.49.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.78) When he rises, we ever rise; when he sets, we meet our setting. ### [4.49.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.79) Therefore the sun is our cause in rising and not rising.” ### [4.49.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.80) Seeing the universe thus agitated, the Lord of the Universe himself, ### [4.49.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.81) the protector of the universe, went to the hot-rayed \[sun\] to grant him a boon. ### [4.49.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.82) Seeing the ray-garlanded \[sun\] completely motionless, ### [4.49.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.83) having forgotten himself in deep meditation, Śambhu was astonished at his austerity. ### [4.49.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.84) And gracious in soul, Śrīkaṇṭha, who removes the distress of the bowing, spoke: ### [4.49.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.85) “Enough of practicing austerity! Ask for a boon, O jewel of the sky, O treasure of splendors!” ### [4.49.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.86) Because his sensory faculties were restrained by meditative concentration, ### [4.49.87](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.87) the sun did not take in the words of Śambhu, like one without ears, though addressed two or three times. ### [4.49.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.88) Knowing him to have become like a log of wood, Śiva touched him with his hand, ### [4.49.89](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.89) which showered the nectar \[that relieves\] the torment arisen from intense austerity. ### [4.49.90](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.90) Then the eye of the world opened his eyes, ### [4.49.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.91) like a cluster of lotuses at dawn having attained his sunrise. ### [4.49.92](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.92) His torment completely gone by the touch of the all-pervading Lord, the sun ### [4.49.93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.93) shone forth, like the splendor of crops blighted by drought revived by a rain cloud. ### [4.49.94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.94) Making the three-eyed Lord visible before him as a guest to his eyes, ### [4.49.95](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.95) Mitra bowed prostrate like a staff and praised the bearer of the Pināka aloud: ### [4.49.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.96) The Sun said: ### [4.49.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.97) “O God of gods, O Lord of the worlds, O omnipresent one, O Bharga, O Bhīma, O Bhava, O moon-adorned one, ### [4.49.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.98) O Lord of beings, O remover of the fear of worldly existence! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.99) O moon-crested Mṛḍa, O Dhūrjaṭi, O Hara, O three-eyed one, O capable one, O destroyer of Indra's sacrifice, ### [4.49.100](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.100) O calm, eternal one, O consort of Śivā, O Śiva! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.101) O blue-and-red one, O fulfiller of desired ends, \[…\], O odd-eyed one, O varied-eyed one, ### [4.49.102](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.102) O space-haired one, O destroyer of the fetters of individual souls! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.103](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.103) O Vāmadeva, O blue-necked one, O bearer of the trident, O moon-crested one, O serpent-king-adorned one, ### [4.49.104](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.104) O creator of desire, O Lord of beasts, O Maheśvara! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.105) O Tryambaka, O Lord who destroyed Tripura, O protector, O three-eyed one, O embodiment of the three Vedas, ### [4.49.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.106) O destroyer of Kālakūṭa poison, O destroyer of Antaka! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.107) O Śarva devoid of night, O all-pervading one, O granter of bliss on the path of heaven, O granter of liberation, ### [4.49.108](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.108) O enemy of the demon Andhaka, O bearer of matted hair! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.109](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.109) O Śaṃkara, O fierce one, O consort of the daughter of the mountain, O Lord, O Viśvanātha, O one praised by Brahmā and Viṣṇu, ### [4.49.110](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.110) O knower of what is to be known through the Vedas, O one who knows all intentions! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow! ### [4.49.111](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.111) O universal-formed one, O one devoid of an alien form, O one devoid of deception regarding Brahman, O granter of immortality, ### [4.49.112](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.112) O one gone far, far beyond the range of speech and mind! I bow to you, O granter of the wishes of those who bow!” ### [4.49.113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.113) Having thus circumvented Mṛḍa the god, the sun, ### [4.49.114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.114) with a delighted soul, then praised Mṛḍānī, who occupies the left half of Śiva's body: ### [4.49.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.115) The Sun said: ### [4.49.116](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.116) “O goddess, whoever is skilled in bowing and bears on the surface of his forehead \[dust\] fair as the dust of your lotus feet, ### [4.49.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.117) even in another birth, indeed, the lovely crescent of the moon makes that forehead exceedingly bright. ### [4.49.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.118) O Śrīmaṅgalā, O birthplace of all auspiciousness! O Śrīmaṅgalā, O fire to the cotton of all sins! ### [4.49.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.119) O auspicious Śrīmaṅgalā, destroyer of the pride of all the Dānavas! O Śrīmaṅgalā, protect this entire universe! 56 ### [4.49.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.120) O Sovereign of the Universe, you are the creator of all beings; / you are likewise the preserver, and the destroyer at the time of dissolution. ### [4.49.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.121) The river of pure merit that leaps forth from the chanting of your name / uproots the trees on the riverbanks of sins. 57 ### [4.49.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.122) O Mother Bhavānī, you who take away the heavy burden of worldly suffering, / you are the sole refuge here; there is none other. ### [4.49.123](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.123) They alone are fortunate in the worlds, they alone are worthy of honor, / upon whom your auspicious glance of compassion gleams. 58 ### [4.49.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.124) Those who constantly remember you, who are self-luminous, / residing in the city of Kāśī, the goddess of liberation bowing before you, ### [4.49.125](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.125) those men of purified intellect, fit vessels expert in safeguarding liberation, / the Destroyer of Smara remembers in turn. 59 ### [4.49.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.126) O Mother, he in whose heart your spotless pair of feet resides, / holds the entire universe in the palm of his hand. ### [4.49.127](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.127) He who continually remembers your splendor, O Maṅgalagaurī, / the eight supernatural perfections never leave his home. 60 ### [4.49.128](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.128) You are the mother of the Vedas, O goddess, having the form of the praṇava, / you are Gāyatrī, and indeed the wish-fulfilling cow of the twice-born. ### [4.49.129](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.129) You are the triad of sacred utterances here for the success of all rites; / you are svāhā and svadhā, the cause of satisfaction for gods and ancestors. 61 ### [4.49.130](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.130) O Gaurī, you alone are with the moon-crested god; in Brahmā you are Sāvitrī; / in Viṣṇu you are lovely Lakṣmī; ### [4.49.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.131) in Kāśī you are the goddess of liberation, of spotless form. / O Mother Maṅgalagaurī, you are my refuge here! 62 ### [4.49.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.132) Having thus praised with the great hymn of eight verses to Śrīmaṅgalā / her who adorns half of the body of the Destroyer of Smara, ### [4.49.133](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.133) and having bowed repeatedly on all sides to the goddess and the god, / the sun became silent before the two Śivas. 63 ### [4.49.134](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.134) The God of Gods said: ### [4.49.135](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.135) Arise, arise! Blessings be upon you! I am pleased, O high-minded one! ### [4.49.136](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.136) As Mitra entering my eye, / look upon this moving and unmoving world constantly. 64 ### [4.49.137](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.137) You are my manifestation, O Sūrya; become omniscient and omnipresent, ### [4.49.138](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.138) the mass of all splendors, knowing all actions of everyone. 65 ### [4.49.139](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.139) Dispel all the sorrows / of all devotees. ### [4.49.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.140) By means of the eight verses of the sixty-four names uttered by you, 66 ### [4.49.141](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.141) praising me with this, a person will attain devotion to me. ### [4.49.142](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.142) The eight-verse hymn of Maṅgalāgaurī named the Maṅgalāṣṭaka— 67 ### [4.49.143](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.143) by praising Maṅgalāgaurī with this, one will attain auspiciousness. ### [4.49.144](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.144) The hymn of the eight verses of the sixty-four names and the Maṅgalāṣṭaka: 68 ### [4.49.145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.145) this excellent, sacred pair of hymns destroys all sins. ### [4.49.146](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.146) Even if residing in a distant region, an excellent man chanting \[them\] daily, 69 ### [4.49.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.147) at the three junctions of the day, with a thoroughly purified self, will attain hard-to-reach Kāśī. ### [4.49.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.148) When this pair of hymns is chanted daily by men, 70 ### [4.49.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.149) the daily sin is surely washed away; there is no doubt about this. ### [4.49.150](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.150) Never does guilt abide in the body of that embodied being. 71 ### [4.49.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.151) One should daily recite this auspicious pair of hymns at the three junctures of the day. ### [4.49.152](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.152) What is the use of chanting many hymns that merely bestow flickering fortune upon men? 72 ### [4.49.153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.153) This pair of hymns bestows the fortune of ultimate beatitude in Kāśī. ### [4.49.154](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.154) Therefore, with every effort, by human beings desiring liberation, 73 ### [4.49.155](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.155) this pair of hymns should be chanted, abandoning numerous other hymns. ### [4.49.156](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.156) This entire manifold world of moving and unmoving beings belongs to us two alone; 74 ### [4.49.157](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.157) therefore, through this praise of us two, a person becomes freed from worldly illusion. ### [4.49.158](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.158) Having attained great prosperity endowed with sons and grandsons here, 75 ### [4.49.159](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.159) a man reciting this hymn attains liberation at the end. ### [4.49.160](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.160) Moreover, listen, O seven-horsed one, king of planets, maker of the day! 76 ### [4.49.161](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.161) The liṅga consecrated by you, named Gabhastīśvara, ### [4.49.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.162) served with the feeling of devotion, bestows all perfections. 77 ### [4.49.163](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.163) Because with garlands of rays having the luster of campaka and lotus, ### [4.49.164](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.164) you worshiped the liṅga of Īśvara with all your being, O Bhāskara, 78 ### [4.49.165](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.165) therefore the liṅga will obtain the name Gabhastīśvara. ### [4.49.166](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.166) Having bathed at Pañcanada and worshiped Gabhastīśa, a man, 79 ### [4.49.167](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.167) freed from sins, is never again born in a mother’s womb. ### [4.49.168](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.168) And \[worshiping\] this Maṅgalāgaurī, whether a woman or a man, 80 ### [4.49.169](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.169) devoted to fasting on the third lunar day of the bright fortnight of Caitra, ### [4.49.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.170) having worshiped with grand offerings of silk garments, ornaments, and the like, 81 ### [4.49.171](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.171) having kept vigil at night with songs, dances, sacred stories, and the like, ### [4.49.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.172) and in the morning having worshiped twelve maidens with clothes and other gifts, 82 ### [4.49.173](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.173) having fed them with sweet milk-rice and the like, and having given sacrificial gifts to others as well, ### [4.49.174](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.174) having performed the fire-offering according to the injunctions with the verse beginning with 'jātavedase,' 83 ### [4.49.175](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.175) with one hundred and eight oblations of sesame seeds and ghee in the morning, ### [4.49.176](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.176) having given a pair of cows to a householder brahmin, 84 ### [4.49.177](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.177) having adorned a brahmin couple with ornaments with faith, ### [4.49.178](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.178) and having fed \[them\] with highly sumptuous foods, should pray: 'May Maṅgalā and Īśvara be pleased!' 85 ### [4.49.179](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.179) Reciting this mantra and then breaking the fast in the morning, ### [4.49.180](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.180) one never meets with misfortune, nor ever with poverty. // 86 ### [4.49.181](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.181) There is truly no cutting off of offspring, nor ever an interruption of worldly enjoyments; ### [4.49.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.182) a woman never incurs widowhood, nor does a man suffer separation from his wife. // 87 ### [4.49.183](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.183) Sins dissolve away, and a heap of religious merit is obtained; ### [4.49.184](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.184) even a barren woman would give birth having performed this Maṅgalā-vow. // 88 ### [4.49.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.185) From the performance of this vow, deformity of form never occurs; ### [4.49.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.186) an unmarried maiden attains a husband endowed with excellent qualities and beauty. // 89 ### [4.49.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.187) A youth, too, having performed the vow, obtains an excellent wife. ### [4.49.188](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.188) There are many vows that grant wealth and desired objects, // 90 ### [4.49.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.189) yet none of them can ever attain equality with the Maṅgalā-vow. ### [4.49.190](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.190) And an annual pilgrimage should be performed on that lunar day in Madhu by men, // 91 ### [4.49.191](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.191) for the calming of all obstacles, always by residents of Kāśī. ### [4.49.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.192) \[Śiva said:\] 'I tell you another thing, O Sun, jewel of the sky, as you perform austerity here: // 92 ### [4.49.193](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.193) Only your rays were seen in the sky, and your physical body was not seen; ### [4.49.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.194) therefore, your name shall be Mayūkhāditya, O son of Diti! // 93 ### [4.49.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.195) From worshipping you, no disease whatever shall afflict men; ### [4.49.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.196) poverty shall not befall them from gazing upon you on Sunday.' // 94 // / Having thus granted many boons to Mayūkhāditya, Śiva ### [4.49.197](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.197) disappeared right there, and the Sun remained in that very spot. // 95 ### [4.49.198](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.198) Having heard this sacred narrative concerning Mayūkhāditya, ### [4.49.199](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.199) along with Draupadāditya, a man would not go to hell. // 96 ### [4.49.200](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49.200) Thus ends the forty-ninth chapter, named 'Description of Draupadāditya and Mayūkhāditya', in the first half of the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, in the fourth \[part of\] the venerable Skandamahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. // 49 ## Linked texts (1) - [Skandapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.4.49.1) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.4.49) · Pramāṇa