Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 59
श्रृणुयात्स्कंदचरितं महाधनपतिर्भवेत् । बालानां व्याधिदुष्टानां राजद्वारोपसेविनाम्
śrṛṇuyātskaṃdacaritaṃ mahādhanapatirbhavet | bālānāṃ vyādhiduṣṭānāṃ rājadvāropasevinām
സ്കന്ദചരിതം ശ്രവിച്ചാൽ മനുഷ്യൻ മഹാധനപതിയാകാം. ഈ വിവരണം പ്രത്യേകിച്ച് കുട്ടികൾക്കും രോഗബാധിതർക്കും രാജദ്വാരസേവകര്ക്കും അത്യന്തം ഹിതകരമാണ്.
Sūta (deduced) presenting targeted phalaśruti
Tirtha: Skanda-carita śravaṇa (as a ‘moving tīrtha’)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A healer-like recitation scene: children and sick devotees sit near a narrator; a court-servant listens with folded hands; Skanda’s vel symbolically bestows wealth and protection.
FAQs
Devotional hearing of Skanda’s deeds is portrayed as a practical dharmic support—granting prosperity and easing worldly anxieties.
No single tīrtha is named; the emphasis is on Skanda-carita śravaṇa as a universally efficacious practice within this section.
Śravaṇa (listening) to Skanda-carita is recommended, with special applicability for vulnerable groups (children, the sick, those under court pressures).