Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 37
अन्योऽपि मानवो यो मां रूपेणा नेनसंस्थिताम् । पूजयिष्यति चात्रैव समं देवेन शंभुना
anyo'pi mānavo yo māṃ rūpeṇā nenasaṃsthitām | pūjayiṣyati cātraiva samaṃ devena śaṃbhunā
മറ്റേതെങ്കിലും മനുഷ്യൻ എന്നെ ഇവിടെ ഇതേ രൂപത്തിൽ സ്ഥാപിതയായതായി അറിഞ്ഞ് പൂജിച്ചാൽ, അവന് ദേവൻ ശംഭുവിനെ പൂജിച്ചതിന് തുല്യമായ പുണ്യം ലഭിക്കും.
A goddess/deity speaking (implied; likely the presiding devatā of the tīrtha/manifest form being worshipped)
Type: temple
Listener: King and, by extension, all humans
Scene: A consecrated deity-form stands at a shrine; devotees offer pūjā, while an inscription-like proclamation declares the worship’s merit equal to Śiva’s worship.
FAQs
Worship offered with devotion at a sanctified manifestation is accepted as worship of the supreme deity; sacred place and sacred form intensify merit.
The verse praises “atraiva”—this very tīrtha location in Nāgara-khaṇḍa’s Tīrtha-māhātmya, where the deity is present in a particular form (name not specified in this line alone).
Pūjā (formal worship) of the deity in the stated form at that very place.