Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 65
गालव उवाच । दानानि यज्ञा नियमास्तपांसि गंगादितीर्थेषु निमज्जनानि । रामेश्वरं त्वां न नमंति ये तु व्यर्थानि तेषामिति निश्चयोऽत्र
gālava uvāca | dānāni yajñā niyamāstapāṃsi gaṃgāditīrtheṣu nimajjanāni | rāmeśvaraṃ tvāṃ na namaṃti ye tu vyarthāni teṣāmiti niścayo'tra
ഗാലവൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ദാനങ്ങൾ, യജ്ഞങ്ങൾ, നിയമങ്ങൾ, തപസ്സുകൾ, ഗംഗാദി തീർത്ഥങ്ങളിൽ മുങ്ങിസ്നാനം—നിന്നെ, ഹേ രാമേശ്വരാ, നമസ്കരിക്കാത്തവർക്ക് ഇവയൊക്കെയും വ്യർത്ഥം; ഇതാണ് ഇവിടെ നിശ്ചയം.
Gālava
Tirtha: Rāmeśvara (Setu-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience of the māhātmya / addressed to Rāmeśvara
Scene: Gālava enumerates dāna, yajña, niyama, tapas, and Gaṅgā-snānā as symbolic vignettes around him, while the central act is a devotee bowing at the Rāmeśvara liṅga—showing all practices converging into namaskāra.
FAQs
Ritual merit is incomplete without surrender and reverence to Rāmeśvara; devotion gives rites their efficacy.
Rāmeśvaram (Setu), while also referencing Gaṅgā and other tīrthas as secondary without Śiva-bhakti.
Dāna, yajña, niyama, tapa, and tīrtha-snāna are mentioned, but their value is tied to namaskāra to Rāmeśvara.