Skandapurana 6.3.166

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Mārkaṇḍeya said: / Then the goddess Siddheśvarī, Vaiṣṇavī, destroyer of sins, / attained supreme joy upon beholding that very beautiful place.

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Having bathed in that sacred ford, a person should worship the ancestors and gods. / Whoever beholds the goddess with devotion is freed from all sins.

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A woman whose children have died, or a barren woman, or one who gives birth only to daughters, / that woman obtains a son endowed with good character and virtues.

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Whoever, having bathed in that sacred ford, beholds the goddess with profound devotion / on the eighth or the fourteenth [lunar day], or at any time, O king,

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whether a woman or a man who has bathed at the confluence there, / the goddess, well-pleased, grants them a son and wealth.

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Beheld and well-worshipped, the goddess protects the lineage; / continually worshipped, she protects offspring, there is no doubt.

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And having fasted and bathed on the ninth [day], O great king, / one should worship the goddess with supreme devotion and a mind purified by faith.

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He goes to the supreme realm, which is difficult even for the gods to attain.

Thus ends the one hundred sixty-sixth chapter, named 'The Description of the Greatness of Siddheśvaratīrtha', in the Revākhaṇḍa of the fifth section, the Āvantyakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compendium of eighty-one thousand [verses].

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Skandapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit