Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 2
पुण्या देवाशिला नाम तस्या माहात्म्यमुत्तमम् । एतदाख्याहि मे सर्वं प्रसन्नो यदि शङ्कर
puṇyā devāśilā nāma tasyā māhātmyamuttamam | etadākhyāhi me sarvaṃ prasanno yadi śaṅkara
पुण्या नावाची देवाशिला आहे; तिचे माहात्म्य परम उत्तम आहे। हे शंकर, आपण प्रसन्न असाल तर हे सर्व मला सांगा।
Uttānapāda
Tirtha: Devāśilā (Puṇyā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaṅkara is addressed; the petitioner (likely a king/ṛṣi) requests narration
Scene: A devotee/king petitions Śaṅkara to narrate the supreme greatness of the sacred place Devāśilā called Puṇyā; the moment is intimate, reverent, and anticipatory.
FAQs
Māhātmya is received through humble inquiry; sacred places are approached by devotion and a desire to hear divine history.
Devāśilā (also called Puṇyā) is explicitly named as the praised sacred locus within the Revā Khaṇḍa.
No direct rite here; the verse requests the full account that typically supports later prescriptions like snāna and tīrtha-sevā.