Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
ईश्वर उवाच । शृणु देवि प्रवक्ष्यामि कथां पापप्रणाशिनीम् । यां श्रुत्वा मानवो देवि मुक्तः संसारसागरात् । सर्वान्कामान्स लभते सततं मनसि प्रियान्
īśvara uvāca | śṛṇu devi pravakṣyāmi kathāṃ pāpapraṇāśinīm | yāṃ śrutvā mānavo devi muktaḥ saṃsārasāgarāt | sarvānkāmānsa labhate satataṃ manasi priyān
ईश्वर बोले—हे देवि, सुनो; मैं पाप-नाशिनी कथा कहता हूँ। जिसे सुनकर, हे देवि, मनुष्य संसार-सागर से मुक्त हो जाता है और मन में प्रिय सभी कामनाएँ निरंतर प्राप्त करता है।
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Śiva turns to Devī and promises a sin-destroying narrative whose very hearing liberates from saṃsāra and grants cherished desires.
FAQs
Śravaṇa (devotional listening) to a purāṇic māhātmya is presented as transformative—destroying sin and orienting one toward liberation.
Implicitly the Rāmeśvara/Prabhāsa sacred complex, since the kathā being introduced concerns its prabhāva.
Śravaṇa—listening to the māhātmya (kathā-śravaṇa) as a meritorious practice.