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# Skandapurana 16.351

Skandapurāṇa 16.351

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [16.351.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.351.1)

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..  
tato gacchenmahādevi tasmādvai kauraveśvarīm ..  
yasya nāmnā kurukṣetraṃ tena sārādhitā purā .. 1 ..

> Īśvara said: / Then, O great goddess, from there one should go indeed to Kauraveśvarī, / worshipped in ancient times by him after whose name Kurukṣetra \[is called\]. 1  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.351.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.351.2)

ārādhitā'sau bhīmena kṛtvā kṣetrasya rakṣaṇam ..  
mahānavamyāṃ yatnena yastāṃ pūjayate naraḥ ..  
taṃ putramiva kalyāṇī rakṣate nātra saṃśayaḥ .. 2 ..

> She was worshipped by Bhīma after protecting the sacred field. / Whatever man worships her with effort on the Mahānavamī, / the auspicious goddess protects him like a son, there is no doubt here. 2  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.351.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.351.3)

bhojanaṃ tatra dātavyaṃ daṃpatīnāṃ na saṃśayaḥ ..  
divyairbhakṣyaiḥ sumiṣṭānnaiḥ sā tuṣyati tataḥ stutā .. 3 ..

> Food should certainly be given to married couples there; / with divine delicacies and very sweet food she is pleased when praised thereafter. 3  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [16.351.350](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.16.351.350)

iti śrīskānde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye kauraveśvarīmāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma pañcāśaduttaratriśatatamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 350 ..

> Thus ends the three hundred fiftieth chapter, entitled 'The Description of the Māhātmya of Kauraveśvarī', in the first \[part\], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand \[verses\]. 350  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda~en-mt.16.351.1) — English, machine translation

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