[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Skandapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda) › 16.170 # Skandapurana 16.170 Skandapurāṇa 16.170 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.170.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.170.1) .. īśvara uvāca .. .. tato gacchenmahādevi tatra mātṛgaṇānsudhīḥ .. tatraiva baladevīṃ ca nātidūre vyavasthitām .. 1 .. > Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, the wise person should go to the host of Mothers there, / and right there to Baladevī, situated not very far away. (1) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.170.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.170.2) śrāvaṇyāṃ śrāvaṇe māsi yastāṃ pūjayate naraḥ .. pāyasairmadhunā vāpi divyapuṣpopahārakaiḥ .. .. 2 .. > A man who worships her on the full-moon day in the month of Śrāvaṇa / with milk-rice, honey, or offerings of heavenly flowers, (2) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.170.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.170.3) tasya varṣaṃ mahādevi sukhaṃ gacchetsupūjitam .. 3 .. > his year passes pleasantly, highly honored, O great goddess. (3) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.170.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.170.170) iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye mātṛgaṇabaladevīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma saptatyuttaraśatatamodhyāyaḥ .. 170 .. > Thus ends the one hundred seventieth chapter, named ‘Description of the Māhātmya of Mātṛgaṇa and Baladevī,’ in the first \[sub-section\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a collection of eighty-one thousand verses. (170) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.170.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.170) · Pramāṇa