Skandapurana 16.228
Skandapurāṇa 16.228
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16.228.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi mātṛsthānamanuttamam ..
bhairaveśeti vikhyātaṃ sarvabhayavināśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the unsurpassed abode of the Mothers, / known as Bhairaveśa, which destroys all fear.
16.228.2
caturdaśyāṃ vidhānena kṛṣṇapakṣe yatātmavān ..
pūjayedgandhapuṣpaiśca balidānaistathottamaiḥ .. 2 ..
One who is self-controlled, on the fourteenth day of the dark fortnight, / should worship [them] according to ritual with perfumes and flowers, and likewise with excellent offerings of oblations.
16.228.3
taṃ putramiva yoginyo rakṣaṃti bhuvi mātaraḥ .. 3 ..
The yoginīs and Mothers on earth protect him like a son.
16.228.228
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetra māhātmye bhairaveśvaramātṛgaṇamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmāṣṭāviṃśatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 228 .. .. cha ..
Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-eighth chapter, entitled 'Description of the Māhātmya of the Host of Mothers at Bhairaveśvara', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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