Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 19
सेव्यमानोप्सरोभिश्च स्तूयमानश्च किन्नरैः । गीयमानश्च गन्धर्वैः शिवपार्श्वे व्यवस्थितः
sevyamānopsarobhiśca stūyamānaśca kinnaraiḥ | gīyamānaśca gandharvaiḥ śivapārśve vyavasthitaḥ
അപ്സരസ്സുകൾ സേവിക്കുകയും, കിന്നരർ സ്തുതിക്കുകയും, ഗന്ധർവർ ഗാനം പാടുകയും ചെയ്തപ്പോൾ അവൻ ശിവന്റെ പാർശ്വത്തിൽ സ്ഥാപിതനായി നിന്നു।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narration within Tīrthamāhātmya; specific speaker not explicit in the verse)
Scene: In Śiva’s radiant court, the liberated/meritorious devotee stands near Śiva; apsarases attend with flywhisks, kinnaras offer praise, gandharvas sing with vīṇā and drums.
FAQs
Service to a Śiva-connected sacred place culminates in nearness to Śiva—devotional geography yields devotional destiny.
The Suparṇākhyā-related kṣetra, whose fruit is portrayed as residence near Śiva.
None; this is a phala (result) description emphasizing the tīrtha’s glory.