Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 13
तथैकादशरुद्रा ये तत्र क्षेत्रे द्विजोत्तमाः । एकस्थाने स्थितास्तेषां पूजया श्रूयतां फलम्
tathaikādaśarudrā ye tatra kṣetre dvijottamāḥ | ekasthāne sthitāsteṣāṃ pūjayā śrūyatāṃ phalam
ಅದೇ ರೀತಿಯಾಗಿ, ಹೇ ದ್ವಿಜೋತ್ತಮ! ಆ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದೇ ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆಸಿರುವ ಏಕಾದಶ ರುದ್ರರ ಪೂಜಾಫಲವನ್ನು ಕೇಳು।
Narrator (contextual; likely Sūta in Tīrtha-māhātmya narration)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottama (best of brāhmaṇas)
Scene: A sacred precinct where eleven Rudra forms are indicated—either as eleven liṅgas in a single enclosure or eleven radiant Śiva aspects surrounding a central liṅga—while a brāhmaṇa listener receives instruction about worship-fruit.
FAQs
A holy place becomes especially potent when divine presences (here, the Eleven Rudras) are revered with focused worship; listening to and following tīrtha-instructions is itself meritorious.
The verse refers to “that kṣetra” within Nāgara-khaṇḍa’s Tīrtha-māhātmya (Adhyāya 155); the specific tīrtha-name is not stated in this single verse.
Pūjā (worship) of the Ekādaśa Rudras who are said to be established together in one place.
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