Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 56
अपूर्वं च स्वसदनं दृष्ट्वा सीत्सुखविह्वला । श्रुत्वा पुत्रमुखात्सर्वं प्रसादं गिरिजापतेः
apūrvaṃ ca svasadanaṃ dṛṣṭvā sītsukhavihvalā | śrutvā putramukhātsarvaṃ prasādaṃ girijāpateḥ
स्वतःचे घरही अपूर्व दिसताच ती आनंदाने विह्वळ झाली; आणि पुत्राच्या मुखातून गिरिजापती (शिव) यांच्या कृपेचा सर्व वृत्तांत ऐकून।
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic narrator; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa)
Scene: She beholds her home transformed into something unprecedented and is overcome with joy; the son narrates Śiva’s grace, and the atmosphere feels sanctified and luminous.
FAQs
Hearing the testimony of devotion and grace strengthens faith; Śiva’s prasāda becomes a shared family realization.
The narrative context points to worship at a Śiva-abode (Śivālaya), without naming a particular pilgrimage site.
No explicit prescription; the emphasis is on śravaṇa (hearing) of divine grace as spiritually uplifting.