Skandapurana 16.291
Skandapurāṇa 16.291
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16.291.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasmāduttarabhāge tu sthānātkauberasaṃjñakāt ..
bhadrakālī mahādevi vāṃchitārthapradāyinī .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the north of that place called Kaubera, / [abides] Bhadrakālī, O Great Goddess, who grants desired goals.
16.291.2
dakṣayajñasya vidhvaṃse vīrabhadrasamanvitā ..
bhadrakālī mahādevī dakṣayajñavināśinī .. 2 ..
At the destruction of Dakṣa's sacrifice, accompanied by Vīrabhadra, / she was the Great Goddess Bhadrakālī who destroyed Dakṣa's sacrifice.
16.291.3
caitre māsi tṛtīyāyāṃ devīṃ tāṃ yastu pūjayet ..
navakoṭyastu cāmuṇḍā bhaviṣyaṃti supūjitāḥ ..
saubhāgyaṃ vijayaṃ caiva tasya lakṣmīrbhaviṣyati .. 3 ..
Whoever worships that goddess on the third day of the bright fortnight in the month of Caitra, / the nine crores of Cāmuṇḍās will be well-worshipped by him; / good fortune, victory, and prosperity will be his.
16.291.291
iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye nyaṃkumatīmāhātmye bhadrakālīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāmaikanavatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 291 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and ninety-first chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Bhadrakālī', in the Nyaṅkumatī-māhātmya, within the Prabhāsakṣetra-māhātmya, the first [sub-section] of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Purāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].
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