ईश्वर उवाच । ततो गच्छेन्महादेवि लिंगं वै हाटकेश्वरम् । नलेश्वरात्पूर्वभागे शतधन्वंतरद्वये
īśvara uvāca | tato gacchenmahādevi liṃgaṃ vai hāṭakeśvaram | naleśvarātpūrvabhāge śatadhanvaṃtaradvaye
ઈશ્વરે કહ્યું—ત્યારબાદ, હે મહાદેવી, નલેશ્વરના પૂર્વ ભાગે બે સો ધનુષના અંતરે સ્થિત ‘હાટકેશ્વર’ નામના લિંગ પાસે જવું જોઈએ।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva instructs Devī, indicating the next liṅga on the Prabhāsa route; a pilgrim-path with markers, the sea-breeze of Saurāṣṭra, and a small shrine to Hāṭakeśvara east of Naleśvara.
Sacred travel in Prabhāsa Kṣetra is presented as a guided sequence of darśana, linking one liṅga to another within a sanctified map.
Hāṭakeśvara liṅga, described relative to Naleśvara in Prabhāsa Kṣetra.
The instruction is to proceed to (visit) Hāṭakeśvara; no offerings are specified in this verse.
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