Skandapurana 16.61
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Īśvara said: / Next, O goddess, one should go to the Vaiṣṇavī messenger of the sacred field, the great goddess / situated on the eastern side of the illustrious Daityasūdana,
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standing seven bow-lengths to the north-east of Yogeśvarī, / standing as medicine for those consumed by great misfortune.
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O goddess, during the Cākṣuṣa Manvantara, when the Daityas of terrible might, / being struck down by Viṣṇu, entered the southern quarter,
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there the Daityas waged a great battle for more than a hundred years / with Viṣṇu, O ruler of the gods, using various types of divine weapons.
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Knowing that they were difficult to slay, lotus-eyed Viṣṇu / remembered the terrible Śakti, the great illusive power of great radiance.
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The moment she was remembered by the powerful Viṣṇu, / the great goddess arrived there, her eyes trembling with delight.
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Since the goddess made her eyes wide upon seeing Viṣṇu, / she became Viśālākṣī, stationed there as the destroyer of the Daityas.
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In this kalpa she is known as Lalitā and Umā, O fair-faced one; / two forms of Umā are declared, at Someśa and at Daityasūdana.
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One should first visit her at Someśvara, and afterwards at the illustrious Daityasūdana; / having worshipped the two forms of Umā, one obtains the fruit of pilgrimage to the sacred ford.
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The man who worships her according to the rules on the third lunar day in the month of Māgha / will never be without offspring in ten million generations of his family.
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Whoever constantly looks upon her there endowed with supreme devotion / will long be endowed with health, happiness, and good fortune.
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Thus has been proclaimed in brief the māhātmya originating from Lalitā, / which, when heard, leads to the destruction of sin and the increase of righteousness.
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Thus ends the sixty-first chapter, titled 'Description of the Māhātmya of Lalitā-Umā-Viśālākṣī', in the first [part], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh [section], the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skandapurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.
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