Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 16
तेन देवान्विधानोक्तान्स्थापयन्ति नरा भुवि । अक्षयं चाव्ययं यस्मात्कालं भुञ्जन्ति मानवाः
tena devānvidhānoktānsthāpayanti narā bhuvi | akṣayaṃ cāvyayaṃ yasmātkālaṃ bhuñjanti mānavāḥ
म्हणून पृथ्वीवरचे नर शास्त्रविधीनुसार देवांची स्थापना करतात; कारण त्यामुळे मानवांना अक्षय व अव्यय पुण्यफलरूप काळ प्राप्त होतो।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced for Āvantya Khaṇḍa narrative style)
Listener: nara/nṛpa (audience addressed in the passage)
Scene: A formal consecration with priests consulting śāstra, measuring the altar, performing homa and prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā; a symbolic ‘akṣaya’ stream of light representing imperishable merit.
FAQs
Ritual acts done in accordance with prescribed injunctions generate enduring, inexhaustible merit.
No single site is named; the verse generalizes the Revā Khaṇḍa ethos of dharma performed properly within sacred geography.
Installing deities (sthāpana/pratiṣṭhā) according to vidhāna (scriptural procedure).