Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 65
गालव उवाच । दानानि यज्ञा नियमास्तपांसि गंगादितीर्थेषु निमज्जनानि । रामेश्वरं त्वां न नमंति ये तु व्यर्थानि तेषामिति निश्चयोऽत्र
gālava uvāca | dānāni yajñā niyamāstapāṃsi gaṃgāditīrtheṣu nimajjanāni | rāmeśvaraṃ tvāṃ na namaṃti ye tu vyarthāni teṣāmiti niścayo'tra
गालव म्हणाला—दान, यज्ञ, नियम, तप आणि गंगा इत्यादी तीर्थांत स्नान-निमज्जन—जे तुला, हे रामेश्वर, नमस्कार करीत नाहीत, त्यांच्यासाठी हे सर्व व्यर्थ आहे; हाच येथे निश्चय आहे.
Gālava
Tirtha: Rāmeśvara (Setu-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience of the māhātmya / addressed to Rāmeśvara
Scene: Gālava enumerates dāna, yajña, niyama, tapas, and Gaṅgā-snānā as symbolic vignettes around him, while the central act is a devotee bowing at the Rāmeśvara liṅga—showing all practices converging into namaskāra.
FAQs
Ritual merit is incomplete without surrender and reverence to Rāmeśvara; devotion gives rites their efficacy.
Rāmeśvaram (Setu), while also referencing Gaṅgā and other tīrthas as secondary without Śiva-bhakti.
Dāna, yajña, niyama, tapa, and tīrtha-snāna are mentioned, but their value is tied to namaskāra to Rāmeśvara.