Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
यदत्र क्रियते किंचित्कर्म धर्म्यं द्विजोत्तमाः । तद्बाह्यं च भवेद्व्यर्थमेतद्विद्मः स्फुटं वयम्
yadatra kriyate kiṃcitkarma dharmyaṃ dvijottamāḥ | tadbāhyaṃ ca bhavedvyarthametadvidmaḥ sphuṭaṃ vayam
ഹേ ദ്വിജോത്തമന്മാരേ, ഇവിടെ ചെയ്യപ്പെടുന്ന ഏതൊരു ധാർമ്മിക കർമ്മവും ഫലപ്രദമാണ്; എന്നാൽ ഈ പുണ്യപരിധിക്ക് പുറത്തു ചെയ്താൽ അത് വ്യർത്ഥമാകും—ഇത് ഞങ്ങൾ വ്യക്തമായി അറിയുന്നു.
Local devotees/hosts (asserting the tīrtha’s unique efficacy)
Tirtha: Nāga-tīrtha / kṣetra (contextual ‘atra’)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottamāḥ
Scene: A declarative teaching scene: sages or narrator emphasize the boundary of the sacred precinct—inside, dharmic rites bear fruit; outside, they are futile; visualized as a tīrtha with marked limits (torana, boundary stones, ghāṭ line).
FAQs
Place matters in Purāṇic dharma: a consecrated kṣetra intensifies the fruit of righteous acts, while the same acts elsewhere may not yield the same result.
A Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrtha whose precinct is declared uniquely efficacious for dharmic rites.
To perform dharmic rites within the tīrtha/kṣetra itself (not outside), emphasizing the importance of sacred locality.