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# Skandapurana 16.286.1

Skandapurāṇa 16.286.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.286.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.286.1)

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..  
tato gacchenmahādevi bālārkaṃ pāpanāśanam ..  
agastyāśramato devi uttare nātidūrataḥ .. 1 ..

> Īśvara said: / Then one should go, O great goddess, to Bālārka, the destroyer of sins, / which is not very far to the north from Agastya's hermitage, O goddess. // 1  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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