Skandapurana 5.75

English (machine translation) 5.75

Language: English

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Sūta said: / Formerly, in an earlier aeon, this peerless sacred field, O best of twice-born, / was given to Brahmā by the pleased Lord Rudra.

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When the liṅga named Hāṭakeśvara was established, / it was again given to Brahmā by Rudra, pleased with the gods.

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Then this sacred field was bestowed by Śambhu upon the Six-faced One (Skanda) / for the protection of brahmins against the blemishes of the Kali age and other evils.

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Requested by Brahmā, this primal, supreme [field was given by him personally]; / and commanded by his father, the Son of Gaṅgā then made his dwelling there.

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Whoever has darśana of the Master on the full moon of Kārttika during the conjunction with Kṛttikā, / becomes a wealthy brahmin who has mastered the Vedas for seven lifetimes.

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There is a very charming temple of the god Mahāsena, / standing high above all the world, as though wishing to drink the sky.

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Hearing of that, all the gods quickly arrived out of curiosity; / they went and gazed upon it, beholding the most sacred city.

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To the north of the temple and to the east, O twice-born, / they began the performances of sacrifices as prescribed by the brahmins.

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Having sacrificed and given sacrificial gifts to them, all the gods / went rejoiced to heaven, having obtained the fruit born of that place.

From then on, it indeed became known as Devayajana; / the fruit that one would obtain elsewhere by performing a hundred sacrifices, / that one obtains here by a single sacrifice accompanied by sacrificial gifts.

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Thus ends the seventy-fifth chapter, titled 'Description of the Glorification of the Sacrificial Ground,' in the glorification of Hāṭakeśvara sacred field, in the sixth Nāgarakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit