Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 67
हाटकेश्वरजे क्षेत्रे स्थापय त्वं च मा क्षिप । अक्षयं जायते येन सर्वस्त्रीणां हिताय च
hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre sthāpaya tvaṃ ca mā kṣipa | akṣayaṃ jāyate yena sarvastrīṇāṃ hitāya ca
“हाटकेश्वराच्या क्षेत्रात यांची स्थापना कर; त्यांना टाकून देऊ नकोस. असे केल्याने अक्षय पुण्यफळ प्राप्त होते आणि सर्व स्त्रियांच्या हितास कारणीभूत ठरते.”
Sureśvarī (Goddess/Gaurī)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Viṣṇu (outer frame, implied) / Lakṣmī (recipient of command)
Scene: The Goddess commands: install the four forms in Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra; do not discard them. This yields imperishable merit for the welfare of all women.
FAQs
Establishing sacred forms at a holy site generates akṣaya-puṇya and extends spiritual benefit beyond the individual to the wider community.
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is explicitly praised as the proper place for establishing the Gaurīcatuṣṭaya.
Pratiṣṭhā (installation) of the four images in Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra; prohibition against discarding/immersing them.