Skandapurana 16.124
Skandamahāpurāṇa (vulgate) 16.124
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16.124.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi gaurīṃ saubhāgyadāyinīm ..
paścime rāvaṇeśasya dhanuṣāṃ pañcake sthitām .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should proceed, O great Goddess, to Gaurī, the bestower of conjugal felicity, / situated five bow-lengths to the west of Rāvaṇeśa, (1)
16.124.2
yatrātapyattapo ghoraṃ svayaṃ devī hyaruṃdhatī ..
saubhāgyaṃ kāṃkṣamāṇā sā gaurīpūjāparāyaṇā .. 2 ..
where Lady Arundhatī herself performed terrible austerity, / desiring conjugal felicity, devoted to the worship of Gaurī. (2)
16.124.3
saṃprāptā paramāṃ siddhiṃ tasyā devyāḥ prabhāvataḥ ..
tṛtīyāyāṃ śuklapakṣe māghe māsi varānane .. 3 ..
She attained supreme perfection by the power of that goddess. / On the third lunar day of the bright fortnight in the month of Māgha, O fair-faced lady, (3)
16.124.4
yastāṃ pūjayate bhaktyā sa saubhāgyamavāpnuyāt..
anyajanmani deveśi nātra kāryā vicāraṇā .. 4 ..
whoever worships her with devotion attains conjugal felicity / in another birth, O Queen of the gods; there should be no doubt about this. (4)
16.124.124
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye saubhāgyeśvarīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma caturviśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ ..124..
Thus ends the one hundred and twenty-fourth chapter, entitled "Description of the Māhātmya of Saubhāgyeśvarī," in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand verses. (124)
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