Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 65
य इमं शृणुयाद्भक्त्या भृगुकच्छस्य विस्तरम् । कोटितीर्थफलं तस्य भवेद्वै नात्र संशयः
ya imaṃ śṛṇuyādbhaktyā bhṛgukacchasya vistaram | koṭitīrthaphalaṃ tasya bhavedvai nātra saṃśayaḥ
مَن استمع بإخلاصٍ إلى هذا البيان المفصّل عن بهريغوكاتشا (Bhṛgukaccha)، نال ثوابًا يعادل ثمرةَ ملايينِ التيرثات (tīrtha)؛ لا ريب في ذلك.
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic phalaśruti)
Tirtha: Bhṛgukaccha
Type: kshetra
Listener: General audience of devotees; framed within the king-sage dialogue context of the chapter
Scene: A storyteller recites the Bhṛgukaccha-vistara to a gathered audience; behind them, a symbolic map-like panorama shows many tīrthas as small glowing icons, all converging into the single kṣetra through the power of hearing.
FAQs
Devotional listening to a tīrtha’s māhātmya is itself a powerful sādhanā that bestows vast merit.
Bhṛgukaccha, whose greatness is praised as yielding koṭitīrtha-equivalent merit through hearing.
Śravaṇa (devout hearing) of the site’s māhātmya; the verse functions as a phalaśruti rather than a procedural ritual.