Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 37
अथ सा चिन्तयामास न दृष्टे तु सुरेश्वरे । हाटकेश्वरदेवे च न हि यात्राफलं लभेत्
atha sā cintayāmāsa na dṛṣṭe tu sureśvare | hāṭakeśvaradeve ca na hi yātrāphalaṃ labhet
Entonces reflexionó: «Si no se contempla al Señor de los dioses—si no se ve al Señor Hāṭakeśvara—no se obtiene en verdad el fruto de la peregrinación».
Narrator (reporting the woman’s inner reflection)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devoted woman pilgrim pauses near a sacred precinct, hands folded, reflecting that without beholding Hāṭakeśvara the pilgrimage fruit is incomplete; temple silhouette and tīrtha landscape behind her.
FAQs
Pilgrimage reaches completion in darśana—without encountering the deity, the outer journey is considered spiritually unfinished.
Hāṭakeśvara is the focal sacred destination; the verse stresses that His darśana constitutes the core fruit of the yātrā.
The verse prescribes no separate rite; it establishes darśana of Hāṭakeśvara (Sureśvara) as the essential culmination of pilgrimage merit.
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