Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 42
सुरभ्या पूजयेद्भक्त्या मन्त्रेणानेन पार्वति । वाममर्धं शरीरस्य या हरस्य व्यवस्थिता । सा मे पूजां प्रगृह्णातु तस्यै देव्यै नमोऽस्तु ते
surabhyā pūjayedbhaktyā mantreṇānena pārvati | vāmamardhaṃ śarīrasya yā harasya vyavasthitā | sā me pūjāṃ pragṛhṇātu tasyai devyai namo'stu te
হে পাৰ্বতী, এই মন্ত্ৰেৰে ভক্তিভাৱে সুগন্ধি দ্ৰব্য অৰ্ঘ্য কৰি পূজা কৰিব: ‘যি হৰৰ দেহৰ বাম অৰ্ধত অৱস্থিতা—সেই দেৱী মোৰ পূজা গ্ৰহণ কৰক। সেই দেৱীক নমস্কাৰ।’
Skanda (deduced; mantra for Ardhanārīśvara-linked Pārvatī worship)
FAQs
The Goddess is inseparable from Śiva—honoring her as Hara’s very half teaches unity of divine masculine and feminine.
The verse is part of a tīrtha-oriented chapter, but its content is doctrinal and ritual (Ardhanārīśvara/Pārvatī worship) rather than topographical.
Worship Pārvatī with fragrant offerings and recite the mantra invoking her as the left half of Hara, asking her to accept the pūjā.