Skandapurana 16.102

Then one should go, O great goddess, to the goddess Kaṇṭakaśodhinī, / situated at a distance of two bow-lengths in the northern quarter from him.

She is the slayer of Mahiṣa, having a mighty form, worshipped by Brahmā, the gods, and seers. / Long ago, whatever Dānavas were tainted with sins and were thorns to the gods,

she purges them in every yuga; therefore she is Kaṇṭakaśodhinī. / One should worship her on the ninth day of the bright fortnight of Āśvayuja,

with animal offerings, flowers, and supreme lamps and incenses; / his enemies will not arise for an entire year, O fair-faced one.

Whoever beholds her with true devotion on the fourteenth day of the fortnight or daily— / the auspicious goddess protects him like a son, there is no doubt.

Thus the sin-destroying māhātmya has been declared in brief; / heard, O goddess, the māhātmya of Kaṇṭakaśodhinī grants supreme protection.

Thus ends the one hundred and second chapter, entitled “Description of the Māhātmya of Kaṇṭakaśodhinī Situated Near Sāmbāditya,” in the first part, the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.