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# Skandapurana 16.189

Skandapurāṇa 16.189

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.189.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.189.1)

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..  
tasyaiva paścime bhāge nātidūre vyavasthitam ..  
caṇḍikā karmamoṭī ca yoginī koṭisaṃyutā ..  
pīṭhatrayaṃ mahādevi ādyaṃ trailokyavanditam .. 1 ..

> Īśvara said: / In the western part of that very place, situated not far away, / are Caṇḍikā, Karmamoṭī, and the Yoginī accompanied by ten million \[others\]— / the three primordial seats praised in the three worlds, O great goddess.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.189.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.189.2)

navamyāṃ tatra saṃpūjya devīpīṭhaṃ ca yoginīm ..  
sa sarvānprāpnuyātkāmānbhavetsvargāṃganāpriyaḥ .. 2 ..

> Worshipping the seat of the Goddess and the Yoginī there on the ninth day, / one will obtain all desires and become dear to heavenly maidens.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.189.189](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.189.189)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsajñetramāhātmye karmamoṭīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikonanavatyuttaraśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 189 ..

> Thus ends the one hundred and eighty-ninth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Glory of Karmamoṭī', in the first \[part\], the Māhātmya of the Prabhāsakṣetra, in the seventh \[book\], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.189.1) — English, machine translation

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