Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 79
पूजयिष्यति मे मूर्तिं त्वया संस्थापितां द्विज । कुष्ठव्याधिविनिर्मुक्तो मम लोकं स यास्यति
pūjayiṣyati me mūrtiṃ tvayā saṃsthāpitāṃ dvija | kuṣṭhavyādhivinirmukto mama lokaṃ sa yāsyati
…আৰু, হে দ্বিজ, তুমি প্ৰতিষ্ঠা কৰা মোৰ মূৰ্তিৰ পূজা কৰে, তেন্তে সি কুষ্ঠৰোগৰ পৰা মুক্ত হৈ মোৰ লোকলৈ গমন কৰিব।
Śrī Bhagavān (Śiva)
Type: temple
Listener: dvija (brāhmaṇa)
Scene: A devotee afflicted with leprosy bathes at dawn, then worships the consecrated mūrti with lamps and flowers; the skin affliction fades as divine light envelops him, while priests and pilgrims witness.
FAQs
Devotion expressed as worship at a sanctified site is portrayed as healing both bodily affliction and spiritual destiny.
The Bhava-udbhava tīrtha and its established Śiva form (mūrti/liṅga) in Nāgara Khaṇḍa, Adhyāya 209.
Pūjā of the Lord’s established mūrti (in conjunction with the prior snāna timing described).