Adhyaya 262
This chapter is cast as a brief theological instruction from Īśvara to Mahādevī. It gives a clear ritual and directional mandate: one should go to the shrine of Varāha Svāmī, located south of Goṣpada, a spot praised as “pāpa-praṇāśana,” where wrongdoing and impurity are dissolved. It then states the most efficacious time: worship (pūjā) performed on Ekādaśī in the bright fortnight (śukla pakṣa) is especially powerful. The phalāśruti is explicit and salvific—by such devotion one is freed from all pāpaka and attains “Viṣṇu-pada,” the exalted saving state associated with Viṣṇu—thus linking place, time, prescribed act, and promised fruit in a compact ritual-ethical teaching.
Shlokas
Verse 1
ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि वराहं तत्र संस्थितम् । गोष्पदाद्दक्षिणे भागे स्थितं पापप्रणाशनम्
Īśvara said: “Then, O Great Goddess, one should go to the Varāha shrine established there—situated to the south of Goṣpada—a place that destroys sins.”
Verse 2
एकादश्यां सिते पक्षे यस्तं पूजयते नरः । स मुक्तः पातकैः सर्वैर्गच्छेद्विष्णुपदं महत्
In the bright fortnight, on Ekādaśī, the man who worships Him is freed from all sins and attains the exalted abode of Viṣṇu.
Verse 262
इति श्रीस्कान्दे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये वराहस्वामिमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम द्विषष्ट्युत्तरद्विशततमोऽध्यायः
Thus, in the Śrī Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the 81,000-verse compilation, in the seventh—Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa—within the Prabhāsakṣetra Māhātmya, ends the chapter entitled “The Description of the Greatness of Varāhasvāmin,” being Chapter 262.