Adhyaya 213
This adhyāya is a brief Śaiva māhātmya framed as a dialogue in which Īśvara speaks to Devī. It identifies the Kaśyapeśvara sacred site with precise pilgrimage directions: in the eastern quarter (pūrvadigbhāga), at a distance described as “sixteen bow-lengths” (dhanuḥ-ṣoḍaśa-kāntara). It then proclaims the fruit of darśana: one who beholds the place gains prosperity and progeny, and even a person burdened with “all sins” is freed from them—stated as a certain phalaśruti, “no doubt.” A concluding colophon notes the chapter’s placement within the Skanda Purāṇa, in the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa and the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya.
Shlokas
Verse 1
ईश्वर उवाच । क्रत्वीशात्पूर्वदिग्भागे धनुःषोडशकान्तरे । कश्यपेश्वरनामानं महापातकनाशनम्
Īśvara said: To the east of Kratvīśvara, at a distance of sixteen dhanu, is the liṅga known as Kaśyapeśvara, the destroyer of great sins.
Verse 2
तं दृष्ट्वा मानवो देवि धनवान्पुत्रवान्भवेत् । सर्वपातकयुक्तोऽपि मुच्यते नात्र संशयः
O Goddess, upon beholding that Kaśyapeśvara, a person becomes prosperous and blessed with sons; even one burdened with every sin is released—of this there is no doubt.
Verse 213
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीति साहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये कश्यपेश्वरमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम त्रयोदशोत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः
Thus, in the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa—within the eighty-one-thousand-verse Saṃhitā—ends the two-hundred-and-thirteenth chapter, in the seventh Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa, in the first Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya, entitled “The Description of the Greatness of Kaśyapeśvara.”