Skandapurana 16.63
English (machine translation) 16.63
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Īśvara said: / Next, O great goddess, one should go to the supreme Bhairaveśvara, / situated not far to the south of Yogeśvarī.
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It mitigates all sins and bestows divine sovereign power.
Formerly, when the Goddess made an effort to destroy the demons,
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then, having summoned Bhairava, she dispatched him as a messenger.
She was then known as Śivadūtī, and later as Yogeśvarī.
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Because Bhairava was appointed to messendership by the Goddess there,
the liṅga is called by the name Bhairaveśvara.
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It was worshipped by gods and demons, and established by Bhairava.
The man who worships it with devotion according to rule on the full moon of Kārttika,
or continuously for six months, attains his desired fruit.
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Thus ends the sixty-third chapter, named 'Description of the Māhātmya of Bhairaveśvara,' 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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- Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit