Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 17
यस्तौ संपूजयित्वा तु ह्यश्विनीसूक्तमुच्चरेत् । द्विकोटि गुणितं पुण्यं सम्यक्तेन समाप्यते
yastau saṃpūjayitvā tu hyaśvinīsūktamuccaret | dvikoṭi guṇitaṃ puṇyaṃ samyaktena samāpyate
जो त्या दोघांचे विधिपूर्वक पूजन करून अश्विनी-सूक्ताचे पठण करतो, तो विधीने कर्म पूर्ण करून द्विकोटीगुणित पुण्य प्राप्त करतो।
Narrator (contextual; likely Sūta in Tīrtha-māhātmya narration)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaunaka and the Naimiṣāraṇya sages
Scene: Pilgrims at a Gujarat tīrtha shrine worship a paired set of deities; a priest leads recitation of the Aśvinī Sūkta as lamps flare and flowers fall, signifying completion of the rite and the surge of merit.
FAQs
Right worship joined with sacred speech (sūkta-recitation) yields extraordinary merit; correctness (samyak) is itself a dharmic value.
The same kṣetra described earlier in Nāgara-khaṇḍa Adhyāya 155; the excerpt does not provide the site-name.
Worship the Aśvins and recite the Aśvinī Sūkta; the result is described as dvi-koṭi-guṇita puṇya.