Skandapurana 16.133

Īśvara said: / Dwellng right there, O goddess, is she renowned as Mahākālī, / on the lower great seat connected with the chasm of Pātāla. 1

She pacifies all sorrows and destroys all enemies; / she should be worshipped according to the rules at midnight on the dark eighth [tithi] / with perfumes, flowers, incenses, raw meats, and sacrificial offerings. 2

And a devoted woman should observe the Phalatṛtīyā vow there; / having worshipped the goddess according to the rules in the bright fortnight for one year, / fruits must certainly be given to a brahmin according to the rules. 3

O beautiful goddess, she should avoid these foods during the night: / flat beans, pigeon peas, mung beans, black grams, and horse grams, 4

lentils, cowpeas, wheat, grass peas, / chickpeas, peas, and moth beans, and the like. 5

These must not be eaten, O goddess, as long as she observes the vow of Gaurī. / Hear from me as I tell the meritorious fruit thereof: 6

wealth and grain in her house shall never suffer decline; / for seven births she shall not be sorrowful, unfortunate, or wretched. 7

The vow of Mahākālī, accompanied by the greatness of the goddess, has been proclaimed; / it is performed for the destruction of wicked deeds and for the fulfillment of all desires. 8

Thus, O goddess, the glorious [seat] of Mahākālī has been recounted, / a seat in the sacred field that bestows mantra-perfection, O great goddess. 9

One should keep vigil there on the ninth day in the bright fortnight of Āśvina; / having offered worship and oblations at the seat, muttering the mantra at night at will, / with a serene mind, one attains the highest desired perfection. 10

Thus ends the one hundred thirty-third chapter, titled “Description of the Greatness of Mahākālī,” in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses. 133