Skandapurana 16.64
Skandapurāṇa 16.64
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16.64.1
.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
tasyaiva pūrvadigbhāge dhanuṣāṃ paṃcake sthitam ..
lakṣmīśvareti vikhyātaṃ dāridryaughavināśanam .. 1 ..
Īśvara said:
In the eastern direction from that very [place], situated at a distance of five bows,
is the one known as Lakṣmīśvara, which destroys the flood of poverty,
16.64.2
yatra devyā samānītā lakṣmīrdetyānnihatya ca ..
tena lakṣmīśvaraṃ nāma svayaṃ devyā pratiṣṭhitam .. 2 ..
where Lakṣmī was brought by the Goddess after slaying the demons.
Therefore, it was named Lakṣmīśvara and established by the Goddess herself.
16.64.3
yastaṃ pūjayate bhaktyā śrīpaṃcamyāṃ vidhānataḥ ..
na vimukto bhavellakṣmyā yāvanmanvataraṃ priye ..3..
He who worships it with devotion according to the prescribed rule on the Śrīpañcamī
is not separated from Lakṣmī for a manvantara, O beloved.
16.64.64
iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśīti sāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṇḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye lakṣmīśvaramāhātmyavarṇanaṃnāma catuḥṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ .. 64 ....
Thus ends the sixty-fourth chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Lakṣmīśvara,' in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, in the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa of eighty-one thousand verses.
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