Skandapurana 5.158

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Sūta said:
Then Puṣpa too, having taken that excellent woman named Māhikā,
went gladly at that time to the palace of Maṇibhadra.

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Surrounded by all those relatives amidst the sound of conches and musical instruments,
no doubt arose in anyone there regarding him.

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by the grace of the Sun, or sometimes by another's. / Having arrived at the house belonging to his own father,

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and then sitting in the middle, he summoned all his kinsmen: / “Today, indeed, Lakṣmī has stood on the tip of my balance.

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Though she wavered, she stayed again through the words of this good wife. / For how long has great miserliness possessed me?

Today it is known that fortune is fleeting; therefore, it has been cast far away. / Consequently, together with my kinsmen, with the gods and the brahmins entirely, / I shall make it distributed; I swear by truth upon myself!”

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Having spoken thus, then calling all of them individually, / he gave clothing and ornaments by their names according to their merit.

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Then, summoning the brahmins who know the Vedas by their names, / endowed with faith, he gave wealth along with cloth to each one.

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Then to dancers, and especially to the wretched and the blind, / he gave food, along with sweetmeats and garments, O best of the twice-born.

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Then he himself partook of food together with his wife, / having dismissed those assembled relatives together with the brahmins.

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Thus the wealth originating from another was acquired by him at that time; / accompanied by his wife, he enjoyed it continually according to his pleasure.

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Thus ends the one hundred fifty-ninth chapter, entitled “Description of Puṣpa's Attainment of Wealth”, in the Māhātmya of the Hāṭakeśvara Kṣetra in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [part] in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit