Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 29
चतस्रस्तस्य दिग्देव्यो नव दुर्गाश्च संति याः । समाराधय ता गत्वा तासामैक्यं हि दुर्लभम्
catasrastasya digdevyo nava durgāśca saṃti yāḥ | samārādhaya tā gatvā tāsāmaikyaṃ hi durlabham
وفي ذلك الموضع أربعُ إلهاتٍ حارساتٌ للجهات، وتسعُ دورغا كذلك. فاذهب واعبدهنّ بإخلاص، فإن اجتماع تلك القوى في وحدةٍ واحدة أمرٌ عزيز المنال.
Unspecified (continuation of Sūta’s narration / Dāmodara’s instruction in-story)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Addressed devotee/son (implicit from next verse’s ‘पुत्र’)
Scene: A sacred mandala-map of the kṣetra: four radiant guardian Devīs stationed at the cardinal directions, while nine Durgā forms appear as a protective garland around the central sanctum; a devotee is instructed to go and worship.
FAQs
Sacred places can concentrate divine powers; worship there honors Devī’s many protective forms as a rare unified blessing.
Guptakṣetra (by context), celebrated as hosting four directional goddesses and nine Durgās together.
To go to that kṣetra and perform devoted worship (samārādhana) of the directional Devīs and the nine Durgās.