Adhyaya 180
In this adhyāya (Īśvara uvāca), the Lord directs the pilgrim to behold an auspicious sacred site called Puṣpadanteśvara. The chapter identifies Puṣpadanteśvara as Gaṇeśa in connection with Śaṅkara, grounding the shrine’s authority in its Shaiva proximity. It declares that severe tapas was performed there, culminating in the ritual establishment (pratiṣṭhā) of a liṅga at that place. The phalaśruti states plainly that mere darśana—simply seeing this holy installation—releases a being from the bondage of repeated birth and worldly entanglement (janma-saṃsāra-bandhana), while also granting desired aims in this life and benefits in the life to come.
Shlokas
Verse 1
ईश्वर उवाच । तत्रैव संस्थितं पश्येत्पुष्पदन्तेश्वरं शुभम् । पुष्पदन्तेश्वरोनाम गणेशः शंकरस्य तु
Īśvara said: “Right there one should behold the auspicious Puṣpadanteśvara. ‘Puṣpadanteśvara’ is the name of Gaṇeśa, belonging to Śaṅkara.”
Verse 2
तेन तप्तं तपो घोरं तत्र लिंगं प्रतिष्ठितम्
By him, fierce austerity was performed there; therefore, a liṅga was established in that place.
Verse 3
तं दृष्ट्वा मुच्यते जंतुर्जन्मसंसारबन्धनात् । प्राप्नुयादीप्सितान्कामानिह लोके परत्र च
Upon beholding Him, a being is released from the bondage of birth and the round of saṃsāra, and attains the desired aims—here in this world and also in the next.
Verse 180
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये पुष्पदन्तेश्वर माहात्म्यवर्णनंनामाशीत्युत्तरशततमोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the one-hundred-and-eightieth chapter, called “The Description of the Greatness of Puṣpadanteśvara,” in the first part, the Prabhāsa-kṣetra Māhātmya, within the seventh Khanda (Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa) of the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the eighty-one-thousand-verse Saṃhitā.