Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 37
यश्चैतत्कीर्तयेद्भक्त्या शृणुयाद्वा समाहितः । इह भुक्त्वा सुविपुलान्भोगान्याति त्रिविष्टपम्
yaścaitatkīrtayedbhaktyā śṛṇuyādvā samāhitaḥ | iha bhuktvā suvipulānbhogānyāti triviṣṭapam
जो हा वृत्तांत भक्तीने कीर्तन करतो किंवा एकाग्रचित्ताने ऐकतो—तो येथे विपुल भोग भोगून शेवटी त्रिविष्टप (स्वर्ग) प्राप्त करतो।
Sūta (deduced from Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrthamāhātmya narration style; explicit speaker appears at 155.1 as Sūta)
Listener: Ṛṣi audience (contextual)
Scene: A gathered assembly in a tīrtha-town dharmaśālā: a reciter reads from a manuscript; listeners sit with closed eyes and folded hands; above, a subtle celestial vista indicates Triviṣṭapa as promised fruit.
FAQs
Devotional recitation and attentive listening to a tīrtha-māhātmya are themselves powerful dharmic acts that yield both worldly well-being and heavenly merit.
The verse functions as a phalaśruti for the Citreśvarīpīṭha-kṣetra Māhātmya within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra context of Nāgarakhaṇḍa.
Śravaṇa (listening) and kīrtana (recitation/proclamation) performed with bhakti and mental concentration.