Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 29
चमत्कारपुरस्यास्य पश्चिमस्थानमाश्रिताः । सन्त्यन्ये राक्षसास्तत्र मर्यादायां व्यवस्थिताः
camatkārapurasyāsya paścimasthānamāśritāḥ | santyanye rākṣasāstatra maryādāyāṃ vyavasthitāḥ
«Sur le flanc occidental de cette Camatkārapura demeurent d’autres rākṣasas ; là, ils restent postés dans les limites de l’ordre.»
Brahmā
Tirtha: Camatkārapura / Nāgara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A sacred city with a clearly marked western boundary; shadowy rākṣasas stand restrained at the edge, as if held by an unseen dharmic line; the city glows within, calm and ordered.
FAQs
Even disruptive forces are contained by maryādā—sacred boundaries and dharmic limits that protect holy places.
Camatkārapura (within the Nāgara-khaṇḍa tīrtha narrative) is the named sacred settlement whose protected geography is being described.
No explicit ritual; the verse describes spatial dharma—how beings are positioned to preserve the sanctity of the place.