[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) › 16.228 # Skandapurana 16.228 Skandapurāṇa 16.228 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [16.228.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.228.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.228.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.228.3) taṃ putramiva yoginyo rakṣaṃti bhuvi mātaraḥ .. 3 .. > The yoginīs and Mothers on earth protect him like a son. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [16.228.228](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.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 \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.228.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.228](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.228) · Pramāṇa