Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 70
भक्त्या योभ्यर्चयेन्मां च तस्य पुण्यफलं श्रृणु । यन्महीतलतीर्थेषु स्नाने स्यात्तु महत्फलम्
bhaktyā yobhyarcayenmāṃ ca tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śrṛṇu | yanmahītalatīrtheṣu snāne syāttu mahatphalam
Écoute le fruit méritoire de celui qui m’adore avec dévotion : c’est le même grand fruit que procure le bain sacré dans les tīrtha de toute la terre.
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages
Tirtha: Kumāreśvara (as praised in Kaumārikākhaṇḍa)
Type: kshetra
Listener: A son/young interlocutor (implied by subsequent ‘suta’)
Scene: A devotee offers flowers, water, and lamps before a radiant liṅga at Kumāreśvara; behind, a symbolic map-like panorama of many rivers and tīrthas fades into the single shrine, showing ‘all tīrthas contained here’.
FAQs
Bhakti offered at a sanctified shrine concentrates the merit of widespread pilgrimage, underscoring devotion as the heart of dharma.
Within this chapter, the praise centers on Kumāreśvara-tīrtha as a place whose worship yields universal tīrtha-fruit.
Devotional worship (abhyarcana) of the deity; the verse compares its fruit to tīrtha-snāna across the world.