Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 18
तत्प्रभावादहं जाता सुपुण्ये नृपमंदिरे । क्षेत्रस्यास्य प्रभावेन तस्मादत्रैव मे स्थितिः
tatprabhāvādahaṃ jātā supuṇye nṛpamaṃdire | kṣetrasyāsya prabhāvena tasmādatraiva me sthitiḥ
ആ (പുണ്യ)പ്രഭാവത്താൽ ഞാൻ അതിപുണ്യവാനായ രാജാവിന്റെ രാജമന്ദിരത്തിൽ ജനിച്ചു. ഈ പുണ്യക്ഷേത്രത്തിന്റെ മഹിമയാൽ അതുകൊണ്ട് എന്റെ വാസം ഇവിടെയേ സ്ഥിരം.
The woman (continuing her reflection)
Type: kshetra
Listener: (Contextual) Pilgrims/sages addressed within the tīrtha-māhātmya frame
Scene: A radiant sacred landscape (kṣetra) with a subtle divine presence; the speaker (a transformed being) gestures toward the holy ground, indicating that both noble birth and present abode arise from the kṣetra’s potency.
FAQs
Puṇya yields elevated birth, and a powerful kṣetra draws and anchors beings for further purification—showing the living agency of sacred geography.
This kṣetra referenced in context is the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra.
None explicitly; it asserts the transformative prabhāva of the kṣetra.