Skandapurana 16.326
Skandapurāṇa 16.326
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16.326.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tato gacchenmahādevi tasyaivottarataḥ sthitam ..
mahākāleśvaraṃ devaṃ sarvarakṣākaraṃ param .. 1 ..
Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, one should go to the supreme god Mahākāleśvara / situated to the north of him, who grants protection against all [perils].
16.326.2
adhiṣṭhātā purasyāsya bhairavo rudrarūpadhṛk ..
darśe ca pūrṇimāyāṃ ca mahāpūjāṃ prakārayet .. 2 ..
He is the presiding deity of this city, Bhairava bearing the form of Rudra. / On the new moon day and on the full moon day, one should have a great pūjā performed.
16.326.3
mahodaye naraḥ snātvā mahākālaṃ prapaśyati ..
dhanāḍhyo jāyate loke saptajanmasahasrakam .. 3 ..
Having bathed at Mahodaya, when a person looks upon Mahākāla, / he is born rich in this world for seven thousand lifetimes.
16.326.326
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsa khaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye mahākālamāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma ṣaḍviṃśatyuttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 326 ..
Thus ends the three hundred and twenty-sixth chapter, named 'Description of the greatness of Mahākāla', in the first [part], the 'Greatness of Prabhāsa-kṣetra', of the seventh Prabhāsakhaṇḍa in the glorious Skandapurāṇa, an eighty-one-thousand-verse collection.
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