Adhyaya 192
This adhyāya is cast as a theological discourse in which Īśvara speaks to Devī, directing her—and thereby the pilgrim-reader—to a liṅga consecrated by Viśvakarman. The shrine is said to lie north of Mokṣasvāmin and is praised as mahāprabhāva, possessing great sacred potency. The text adds precise spatial guidance by stating that the liṅga is located within a measure of five dhanuṣ, reinforcing the itinerary character of the section. It then proclaims a darśana-centered merit: one who properly beholds the liṅga gains the fruit of pilgrimage, and misdeeds committed by speech (vācika) and by mind (mānasa) are destroyed through that holy sight. The chapter ends with a colophonic note placing it within the 81,000-verse Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa, within the first Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, and naming it Viśvakarmeśvara-māhātmya.
Shlokas
Verse 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि विश्वकर्मप्रतिष्ठितम् । लिंगं महाप्रभावं हि मोक्षस्वामिन उत्तरे
Īśvara said: “Then, O Great Goddess, one should go to the Liṅga of mighty splendor, established by Viśvakarmā, situated to the north of Mokṣasvāmi.”
Verse 2
धनुषां पंचके देवि स्थितं पातकनाशनम्
O Goddess, it is situated at a distance of five dhanuṣ (bow-lengths), and it destroys sins.
Verse 3
तं दृष्ट्वा मानवः सम्यग्यात्राफलमवाप्नुयात् । वाचिकं मानसं पापं दर्शनात्तस्य नश्यति
By beholding Him rightly, a person truly attains the full fruit of pilgrimage; and by that very sight, sins committed by speech and by mind are destroyed.
Verse 192
इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये विश्वकर्मेश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम द्विनवत्युत्तरशततमोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the one-hundred-and-ninety-second chapter, entitled “The Description of the Greatness of Viśvakarmeśvara,” in the Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa—within the first division, the Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya—of the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the Saṃhitā of eighty-one thousand verses.