Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 4
तेनागत्यात्र सत्क्षेत्रे तोषितो मधुसूदनः । प्रासादं शोभनं कृत्वा ततश्चैव प्रतिष्ठितः
tenāgatyātra satkṣetre toṣito madhusūdanaḥ | prāsādaṃ śobhanaṃ kṛtvā tataścaiva pratiṣṭhitaḥ
അവൻ ഈ പുണ്യക്ഷേത്രത്തിൽ എത്തി മധുസൂദനനെ പ്രസാദിപ്പിച്ചു; തുടർന്ന് ശോഭനമായ പ്രാസാദം പണിതു അവിടെ വിധിപൂർവ്വം പ്രതിഷ്ഠിച്ചു।
Narrator (contextually Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa continuing the māhātmya narration)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee arrives at the holy kṣetra, offers worship that pleases Madhusūdana; artisans raise a splendid prāsāda; priests perform installation rites with kalasha, Vedic chants, and lamps.
FAQs
Devotional service expressed through building and consecrating a shrine pleases the Lord and sanctifies a place into a celebrated kṣetra.
A satkṣetra within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya (Adhyāya 96), where Madhusūdana is installed—part of the local sacred geography praised by the Purāṇa.
Pratiṣṭhā: the formal installation/consecration of the deity after constructing a prāsāda (temple).