Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 70
स्वर्ग्यं यशस्यमायुष्यं धन्यं वेदेन संमितम् । रहस्यमृषिभिः प्रोक्तं शृणुयाद्योऽनसूयकः
svargyaṃ yaśasyamāyuṣyaṃ dhanyaṃ vedena saṃmitam | rahasyamṛṣibhiḥ proktaṃ śṛṇuyādyo'nasūyakaḥ
এই উপদেশ স্বর্গপ্রদ, যশদায়ক, আয়ুবর্ধক ও মঙ্গলময়—বেদসম্মত প্রমাণে পরিমিত। ঋষিগণ যে রহস্য ঘোষণা করেছেন, তা ঈর্ষাহীন অনসূয় ব্যক্তি যেন শ্রবণ করে।
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame) and the qualified anasūyaka audience (explicit)
Scene: Sages proclaim a ‘secret’ teaching; a pure-hearted listener sits attentive, while the words are depicted as luminous Vedic measures—like a radiant meter—rising toward the heavens over Prabhāsa’s shore.
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Hearing sacred tradition with humility and without envy becomes a direct source of dharmic prosperity and spiritual ascent.
The statement praises the Prabhāsa-kṣetra teaching being transmitted in this chapter.
Śravaṇa (devout listening) by a qualified, non-envious listener is prescribed as spiritually fruitful.
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