Skandapurana 7.16.24.2
English (machine translation) 7.16.24.2
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7.16.24.2
‘Who bore upon his head, like a garland of motionless flowers, the Gaṅgā, whose lovely waters are visited by Siddhas and Cāraṇas, / rushing down from the sky with the violent speed of huge waves—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 23
Who, by pressing down with his lotus-foot, steadied the summit of Kailāsa’s peak / as it was violently shaken by the Ten-faced one, who resembled a peak of Kailāsa—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 24
By whom the sons of Diti, the sons of Danu, the hosts of Vidyādharas and Uragas, / and the best of munis subsisting on fruits and roots, were repeatedly joined with complete boons—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 25
Who destroyed the sacrifice of Dakṣa, and likewise the eye of Bhaga, and the row of teeth of Pūṣan, / and paralyzed the thunderbolt-wielding arm of mighty Indra—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 26
[…] having the state of release from the threefold bondage, though not endowed with the qualities of knowledge, lineage, and sacred learning, / people who resort to whom become enjoyers of happiness—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 27
Who drank the Kālakūṭa poison of surging fury, which had the radiance equal to ten million suns […], / the terror of the best of gods and Dānavas—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 28
Who, the divine Maheśa, bestowed boons abundantly upon Brahmā, Indra, Viṣṇu, the Maruts, and him with six faces, / and, the Lord, snatched Nandin from the jaws of death—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 29
And by whom, the Lord, Kāma, holding a bow with five arrows on earth, was then made bodiless through laughter, / who in ancient times destroyed Tripura with a single arrow—to that Śaṅkara, the granter of refuge, I go for refuge. // 30 //’
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