Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 44
चित्रशर्मोवाच । एतैः प्राणपरित्यागमारभ्य तदनतरम् । तुष्टिं नीतोऽसि देवश कृत्वा च सुमहत्तपः
citraśarmovāca | etaiḥ prāṇaparityāgamārabhya tadanataram | tuṣṭiṃ nīto'si devaśa kṛtvā ca sumahattapaḥ
ചിത്രശർമ പറഞ്ഞു—ഹേ ദേവേശാ, ഇവർ പ്രാണത്യാഗം ആരംഭിച്ച നിമിഷം മുതൽ തന്നെ, ഉടൻ നീ അതിമഹത്തായ തപസ്സു ചെയ്ത് പ്രസന്നനായിരിക്കുന്നു।
Citraśarmā
Type: kshetra
Scene: Citraśarmā speaks assertively, pointing to others’ near-death resolve and claiming Śiva was pleased by ‘great tapas’; the scene juxtaposes ascetic intensity with argumentative tone.
FAQs
Austerity can move the divine, but the Purāṇas repeatedly stress that boons must align with virtue and the welfare of the kṣetra.
The local Nāgarakhaṇḍa kṣetra remains the setting; the story explains how divine attention is drawn there through tapas and crisis.
Tapas (austerity) is referenced as the force that pleases the deity, though no specific vrata is detailed in this verse.