Skandapurana 16.137
Skandapurāṇa 16.137
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16.137.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tatraiva saṃsthitaṃ paśyetkṣetrapālamanuttamam ..
kaṃkālabhairavaṃnāma bhairaveṇa niyojitam ..
tasya kṣetrasya rakṣārthaṃ prāṇināṃ duṣṭacetasām .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
One should behold the peerless guardian of the field (kṣetrapāla) standing right there,
named Kaṅkālabhairava, appointed by Bhairava
for the protection of that field from living beings of evil intent. (1)
16.137.2
śrāvaṇe śuklapañcamyāmaṣṭamyāmāśvinasya ca ..
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā balipuṣpādibhiḥ kramāt .. 2 ..
Whoever worships him with devotion with offerings, flowers, and the like in due order,
on the fifth day of the bright fortnight of Śrāvaṇa and on the eighth day of Āśvina, (2)
16.137.3
tasya kṣetre nivasataḥ puṣkarasya mahātmanaḥ ..
nirvighnakārī bhavati tathā rakṣati putravat .. 3 ..
for him, living in the sacred field of the great-souled Puṣkara,
he removes all obstacles and protects him like a son. (3)
16.137.137
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsa khaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kaṃkālabhairavakṣetrapālamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptatriṃśaduttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 137 ..
Thus ends the one hundred thirty-seventh chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of the Field Guardian Kaṅkālabhairava', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses. (137)
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