Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 44
चित्रशर्मोवाच । एतैः प्राणपरित्यागमारभ्य तदनतरम् । तुष्टिं नीतोऽसि देवश कृत्वा च सुमहत्तपः
citraśarmovāca | etaiḥ prāṇaparityāgamārabhya tadanataram | tuṣṭiṃ nīto'si devaśa kṛtvā ca sumahattapaḥ
चित्रशर्मा म्हणाला—हे देवेश, यांनी प्राणत्यागास आरंभ केला, त्यानंतर तत्क्षणी तू अत्यंत महान तप करून प्रसन्न झालास।
Citraśarmā
Type: kshetra
Scene: Citraśarmā speaks assertively, pointing to others’ near-death resolve and claiming Śiva was pleased by ‘great tapas’; the scene juxtaposes ascetic intensity with argumentative tone.
FAQs
Austerity can move the divine, but the Purāṇas repeatedly stress that boons must align with virtue and the welfare of the kṣetra.
The local Nāgarakhaṇḍa kṣetra remains the setting; the story explains how divine attention is drawn there through tapas and crisis.
Tapas (austerity) is referenced as the force that pleases the deity, though no specific vrata is detailed in this verse.
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