The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes Greatness of Matriganabala Devi (Matrigana Baladevi) which is chapter 170 of the English translation of the Skanda Purana, the largest of the eighteen Mahapuranas, preserving the ancient Indian society and Hindu traditions in an encyclopedic format, detailling on topics such as dharma (virtous lifestyle), cosmogony (creation of the universe), mythology (itihasa), genealogy (vamsha) etc. This is the one hundred seventieth chapter of the Prabhasa-kshetra-mahatmya of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 170 - Greatness of Mātṛgaṇabalā Devī (Mātṛgaṇa Baladevī)
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Īśvara said:
1-3. Thereafter, O great goddess, a wise devotee should go to the shrine of Mātṛgaṇas. It is stationed not far from Baladevī. A man who worships her on the Full-Moon day in the month of Śrāvaṇa through milk pudding or honey and with divine floral offerings, shall pass off that year in happiness, O great goddess.