The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes Greatness of Trinabindvishvara (Trinabindu-ishvara) which is chapter 138 of the English translation of the Skanda Purana, the largest of the eighteen Mahapuranas, preserving the ancient Indian society and Hindu traditions in an encyclopedic format, detailling on topics such as dharma (virtous lifestyle), cosmogony (creation of the universe), mythology (itihasa), genealogy (vamsha) etc. This is the one hundred thirty-eighth chapter of the Prabhasa-kshetra-mahatmya of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 138 - Greatness of Tṛṇabindvīśvara (Tṛṇabindu-īśvara)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Īśvara said:
1-3. The deity named Tṛṇabindvīśvara is stationed within a distance of five Dhanus to the west thereof (i. e. of Kaṅkālabhairava). It was installed with perfect devotion, O goddess, after the leading sage Tṛṇabindu had performed an elaborate penance, drinking only a drop of water from the tip of a blade of Darbha every month. Thus he propitiated Īśvara for many years and attained the greatest Siddhi in the Prābhāsika Kṣetra of great refulgence.