Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 30
अनयाराधिता पूर्वे भवे साहं महामुने । अस्यैव वरदानाय प्रादुर्भूतास्मि सांप्रतम्
anayārādhitā pūrve bhave sāhaṃ mahāmune | asyaiva varadānāya prādurbhūtāsmi sāṃpratam
اے مہامنی، پچھلے جنم میں اس نے میری آرادھنا کی تھی؛ اسی لیے اسی کو یہ ور دینے کے مقصد سے میں اب ظاہر ہوئی ہوں۔
Mahādevī
Listener: Mahāmuni (great sage)
Scene: A radiant goddess manifests before a sage, explaining that she has appeared because the woman worshipped her in a former birth, and she has come to grant the boon.
FAQs
Devotion performed in past lives bears fruit; the Divine responds by manifesting to grant grace.
No location is praised in this verse; the emphasis is on past-life worship and boon-bestowal.
The implied practice is ārādhanā (devotional worship/propitiation), though no specific rite is detailed.