Adhyaya 324
This adhyāya records Īśvara’s instruction to Devī about a Vināyaka (Gaṇanātha) shrine in the northern part of Prabhāsa, specifically within the vāyavya (northwest) sub-direction. That Vināyaka is praised as the giver of “all siddhis,” granting success to beings. The text also presents a syncretic identification: one formerly known as a companion connected with Dhanada (Kubera) is now present in Gaṇanātha-form, guarding treasures (nidhis) in order to bestow accomplishment. A brief ritual rule is then given by calendrical timing: worship on the fourth lunar day (caturthī) when it coincides with Tuesday (bhauma-vāra), offering edible gifts—bhakṣya, bhojya—and modakas. The chapter ends with a phalāśruti-style assurance that proper worship brings certain success (dhruva-siddhi).
Shlokas
Verse 1
ईश्वर उवाच । तस्मादुत्तरदिग्भागे किंचिद्वायव्यमाश्रितम् । विनायकं प्रपश्येच्च सर्वसिद्धिप्रदायकम्
Īśvara said: To the north of that place, slightly toward the north-west, one should behold Vināyaka, the bestower of every attainment.
Verse 2
योऽसौ देवि मया ख्यातः सखा मे धनदः पुरा । गणनाथस्वरूपेण निधीनां परिपालकः । लोकानां सिद्धिदानार्थमस्मिन्स्थाने स्थितः प्रिये
He whom I once spoke of to you, O Goddess—my former friend Dhanada (Kubera), the guardian of treasures—abides here, O beloved, in the form of Gaṇanātha, for the purpose of granting attainments to the worlds.
Verse 3
चतुर्थ्यां भौमवारेण भक्ष्यभोज्यः समोदकैः । पूजयेद्विधिवद्देवि तस्य सिद्धिर्भवेद्ध्रुवम्
On the fourth lunar day, when it falls on a Tuesday, O Goddess, one should worship him properly with foods and delicacies, together with sweet offerings; for that person, success is certain.
Verse 324
इति श्रीस्कांदे महापुराण एकाशीतिसाहस्र्यां संहितायां सप्तमे प्रभासखण्डे प्रथमे प्रभासक्षेत्रमाहात्म्ये गणनाथमाहात्म्यवर्णनंनाम चतुर्विंशत्युत्तरत्रिशततमोऽध्यायः
Thus ends the three-hundred-and-twenty-fourth chapter, called “The Description of the Greatness of Gaṇanātha,” in the Prabhāsa Khaṇḍa—within the Prabhāsa Kṣetra Māhātmya—of the holy Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, in the Saṃhitā of eighty-one thousand verses.