Skandapurana 16.292
Skandapurāṇa 16.292
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16.292.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasmāduttarabhāge tu sthānātkauravasaṃjñakāt ..
bhadrakālī mahādevi tapaḥ kṛtvā sudustaram .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / To the north of that place called Kaurava, / Bhadrakālī, O Great Goddess, having performed very difficult austerity,
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raviṃ saṃsthāpayāmāsa bhaktyā paramayā yutā ..
ravivāreṇa saptamyāṃ rakta puṣpānulepanaiḥ .. 2 ..
installed the Sun, endowed with supreme devotion. / On a Sunday falling on the seventh day, with red flowers and ointments,
16.292.3
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā koṭiyajñaphalaṃ labhet ..
mucyate vātapittotthai rogairanyaiśca puṣkalaiḥ .. 3 ..
whoever worships him with devotion obtains the fruit of ten million sacrifices, / and is freed from abundant diseases arising from wind and bile, and others.
16.292.4
aśvastatraiva dātavyaḥ samyagyātrāphalepsubhiḥ .. 4 ..
A horse should be given as a gift right there by those desiring the full fruit of pilgrimage.
16.292.292
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye nyaṃkumatīmāhātmye bhadrakālībālārkamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma dvinavatyuttaradviśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 292 ..
Thus ends the two hundred and ninety-second chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Bhadrakālī-Bālārka', 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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