Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 4
तेनागत्यात्र सत्क्षेत्रे तोषितो मधुसूदनः । प्रासादं शोभनं कृत्वा ततश्चैव प्रतिष्ठितः
tenāgatyātra satkṣetre toṣito madhusūdanaḥ | prāsādaṃ śobhanaṃ kṛtvā tataścaiva pratiṣṭhitaḥ
ಅವನು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಈ ಸತ್ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದು ಮಧುಸೂದನನನ್ನು ತೃಪ್ತಿಪಡಿಸಿದನು; ನಂತರ ಸುಂದರ ಪ್ರಾಸಾದವನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿ ಅಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಧಿಪೂರ್ವಕವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾಪಿಸಿದನು।
Narrator (contextually Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa continuing the māhātmya narration)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee arrives at the holy kṣetra, offers worship that pleases Madhusūdana; artisans raise a splendid prāsāda; priests perform installation rites with kalasha, Vedic chants, and lamps.
FAQs
Devotional service expressed through building and consecrating a shrine pleases the Lord and sanctifies a place into a celebrated kṣetra.
A satkṣetra within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya (Adhyāya 96), where Madhusūdana is installed—part of the local sacred geography praised by the Purāṇa.
Pratiṣṭhā: the formal installation/consecration of the deity after constructing a prāsāda (temple).