Skandapurana 16.243
Skandapurāṇa 16.243
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16.243.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi kṣetrapālaṃ mahāprabham ..
īśāne saṃsthitaṃ devaṃ maṃtramālāvibhūṣitam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
Then one should go, O great goddess, to the glorious Kṣetrapāla, / the god residing in the northeast, adorned with a garland of mantras,
16.243.2
hiraṇyātaṭamāśritya rakṣārthaṃ samupasthitam ..
tatraiva hīrakaṃ kṣetraṃ tasminrakṣāṃ karoti saḥ .. 2 ..
who is situated on the bank of the Hiraṇyā for the sake of protection. / Right there is the Hīraka sacred field; in it he provides protection.
16.243.3
kṛṣṇapakṣe trayodaśyāṃ tatra taṃ pūjayennaraḥ ..
gaṃdhapuṣpopahāraiśca tathā bali nivedanaiḥ .. 3 ..
On the thirteenth day of the dark fortnight, a person should worship him there / with perfumes, flowers, offerings, and also presentations of food offerings.
16.243.4
evaṃ saṃpūjito devaḥ sarvakāmaprado bhavet .. 4 ..
Worshiped in this way, the god bestows all desires.
16.243.243
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye maṃtrāvalikṣetrapālamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma tricatvāriṃśaduttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 243 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and forty-third chapter, titled ‘Description of the Māhātmya of the Mantrāvalī-Kṣetrapāla,’ in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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