Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 39
प्रकटं च सुरश्रेष्ठ कपाले श्वरसंज्ञितः । तस्मात्त्वं भविता रुद्र क्षेत्रेऽस्मिन्द्वादशोऽपरः
prakaṭaṃ ca suraśreṣṭha kapāle śvarasaṃjñitaḥ | tasmāttvaṃ bhavitā rudra kṣetre'smindvādaśo'paraḥ
হে সুৰশ্ৰেষ্ঠ, তুমি ‘কপালেশ্বৰ’ নামে কপালত স্পষ্টভাৱে প্ৰকাশ পাইছা। সেয়ে, হে ৰুদ্ৰ, এই পবিত্ৰ ক্ষেত্ৰত তুমি দ্বাদশৰ ওপৰত আন এক—অতিৰিক্ত—দ্বাদশ ৰূপ হ’বা।
Brahmā (deduced)
Tirtha: Kapāleśvara
Type: kshetra
Scene: Śiva stands or emerges as Kapāleśvara—iconography hinting at kapāla association—while sages/devas acknowledge him as a manifest Rudra, ‘another twelfth’, within the sacred field.
FAQs
A kṣetra becomes uniquely holy when the deity is said to manifest there with a specific name and function.
Kapāleśvara-kṣetra (the field where Śiva is known as Kapāleśvara).
No direct prescription; it establishes the deity-name and the special status of the kṣetra.