Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 1
श्रीमार्कण्डेय उवाच । ततो गच्छेत्तु राजेन्द्र करञ्जेश्वरमुत्तमम् । यत्र सिद्धो महाभागो दैत्यो लोकेषु विश्रुतः
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca | tato gacchettu rājendra karañjeśvaramuttamam | yatra siddho mahābhāgo daityo lokeṣu viśrutaḥ
श्रीमार्कण्डेय म्हणाले—त्यानंतर, हे राजेन्द्रा, उत्तम करञ्जेश्वरास जावे; जिथे लोकांत विख्यात महाभाग दैत्याने सिद्धी प्राप्त केली.
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Karañjeśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Yudhiṣṭhira
Scene: Mārkaṇḍeya, seated as a venerable rishi, instructs Yudhiṣṭhira on the next stop: the Karañjeśvara shrine; in the background, a Śiva-liṅga beneath a karañja tree and the suggestion of the Revā’s flow; a daitya-ascetic figure implied as the famed siddha.
FAQs
Sacred geography is a path of transformation: even unlikely beings become siddha through contact with a Śiva-kṣetra.
Karañjeśvara—an eminent Śiva site introduced as the next destination in the Revā Khaṇḍa pilgrimage sequence.
A direct pilgrimage instruction: “one should go” (gacchet) to Karañjeśvara.