Skandapurana 5.169

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Sūta said: / O brahmins, another wonder also occurred: / that spear was dispatched by Viśvāmitra against Vasiṣṭha

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for the slaying of that brahmin-seer; and by the wise Vasiṣṭha / it was immobilized with Atharvan mantras, and perspiration arose [from it].

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From the perspiration water arose, and it became cool. / Water issuing from her two feet became visible here.

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Tearing through the earth, a very cool stream of water arose; / pure, sanctifying, clear, it issued forth like the water of the Gaṅgā.

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Gaṅgā became manifest, accompanied by all the sacred fords; / the pool was filled with clear, cool, auspicious water.

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A barren woman who performs a ritual ablution in it, O best of brahmins, / quickly becomes endowed with a son, O brahmins, in the dreadful Kali age.

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Another person who performs a ritual ablution obtains the fruit of all sacred fords.

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Having bathed there, whatever man sees the goddess according to rule / obtains wealth, grain, sons, and the happiness born of kingship.

A woman who is unfortunate or barren also becomes endowed with sons. / In the month of Caitra, on the bright eighth lunar day, endowed with the yoga of devotion, / at midnight right there, whatever woman

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by means of a pleased virgin makes herself a cake for food offering and oblation, / and whatever woman takes that lump accompanied by the offering—

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even a woman of a hundred years who eats that cake, O brahmins, / she too would become endowed with a son, even if she be extremely old;

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what to say then of a woman endowed with youth, endowed with good fortune? / Endowed with the joy of sons a woman becomes, indeed by the darśana of the goddess.

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For all Nāgaras, she is remembered as their deity born of devotion; / she is the family deity of fifty-two and a half gotras.

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For this reason, a pilgrimage by the Nāgaras will be virtuous; / without the pilgrimage by the Nāgaras, the sovereign goddess is not pleased.

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Thus ends the one hundred seventieth chapter, entitled “Description of the Māhātmya of the Origin of Dhārātīrtha,” in the Māhātmya of the Sacred Field of Hāṭakeśvara, in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa, the sixth [section], in the Skanda Mahāpurāṇa consisting of eighty-one thousand verses.

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit