Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 8
हाटकेश्वरजे क्षेत्रे संन्यस्तः प्रथमः क्रमः । महर्लोके द्विती यस्तु तदा तेन महात्मना
hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre saṃnyastaḥ prathamaḥ kramaḥ | maharloke dvitī yastu tadā tena mahātmanā
في الحقل المقدّس لهاṭakeśvara وُضِعَت الخطوةُ الأولى؛ وأما الخطوةُ الثانية، ففي ذلك الحين، فقد وضعها ذلك العظيمُ في مَهَرْلوكا (Maharloka).
Sūta
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (first stride)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣayaḥ
Scene: A split-scene: on earth, Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra with a footprint shrine where the first stride lands; above, a luminous Maharloka realm receiving the second stride, populated by sages and radiant beings.
FAQs
Purāṇas sacralize geography by connecting earthly sites to cosmic events, making pilgrimage a remembrance of divine acts.
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is named as the locus of the first stride connected to Viṣṇu’s ‘step’ tradition.
None explicitly; it provides mythic-topographical placement of Viṣṇu’s stride(s).