The Skanda Purana
by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words
This page describes Greatness of Four-Faced Vinayaka which is chapter 309 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 three hundred ninth chapter of the Prabhasa-kshetra-mahatmya of the Prabhasa Khanda of the Skanda Purana.
Chapter 309 - Greatness of Four-Faced Vināyaka
[Sanskrit text for this chapter is available]
Īśvara said:
1-3. Thereafter, O great goddess, a devotee should go to the excellent shrine of Vināyaka well-known as Caturmukha Vināyaka situated to the north of Caṇḍīśa rather within a distance of four Dhanus, a little to the north-east.
By worshipping that deity strenuously, one gets rid of all obstacles. By worshipping the Caturmukha (four-faced) Lord on a fourth lunar day by means of sweet scents, flowers, different kinds of edibles along with sweetmeats the devotee shall attain Siddhi.