Skanda Purana 16.120
Skandapurāṇa 16.120
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16.120.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi gopīśvaramanuttamam ..
balātibaladaityaghnyā uttare dhanuṣāṃ traye .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to unexcelled Gopīśvara, / three bow-lengths to the north of [the goddess who] slew the Daityas Bala and Atibala,
16.120.2
saṃsthitaṃ pāpaśamanaṃ gopībhiḥ saṃpratiṣṭhitam ..
samārādhya mahādevaṃ putrahetormaheśvaram ..
sarvakāmapradaṃ nṝṇāṃ pūjitaṃ saṃtatipradam .. 2 ..
which pacifies sins and was established by the Gopīs / who propitiated Mahādeva, the great lord, for the sake of obtaining sons. / It grants all desires to mortals and, when worshipped, bestows progeny.
16.120.3
caitraśuklatṛtīyāyāṃ yastaṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..
gaṃdha puṣpopahāraiśca sa prāpnotīpsitaṃ phalam .. 3 ..
A person who worships him on the third day of the bright fortnight of Caitra / with perfumes, flowers, and food-offerings attains the desired fruit.
16.120.4
evaṃ saṃkṣepataḥ proktaṃ māhātmyaṃ pāpanāśanam ..
gopīśvarasya devasya prabhāsakṣetravāsinaḥ .. 4 ..
Thus has been declared in brief the sin-destroying māhātmya / of the deity Gopīśvara, who dwells in the Prabhāsa sacred field.
16.120.120
iti śrī skānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ sahitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye balātibaladaityaghnīmāhātmye gopīśvara māhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma viṃśatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 120 ..
Thus ends the one hundred and twentieth chapter, named 'The description of the māhātmya of Gopīśvara' in the māhātmya of the goddess who slew the Daityas Bala and Atibala, in the first [part], the Prabhāsa-kṣetra-māhātmya, in the seventh [section], Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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