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# Skandapurana 16.124

Skandapurāṇa 16.124

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.124.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.124.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.124.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.124.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.124.124](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.124.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmyam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.sthala.prabhasakshetramahatmyam.133.1) — Sanskrit

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