Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 122
अतिथिरुवाच । अत्रास्ति मामकं तीर्थं मया यत्र तपः कृतम् । हाटकेश्वरजे क्षेत्रे पुरुकाले द्विजोत्तमाः
atithiruvāca | atrāsti māmakaṃ tīrthaṃ mayā yatra tapaḥ kṛtam | hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre purukāle dvijottamāḥ
अतिथी म्हणाला—येथे माझे एक तीर्थ आहे, जिथे मी तप केले. हाटकेश्वराच्या पवित्र क्षेत्रात, प्राचीन काळी, हे द्विजोत्तमांनो!
Atithi
Tirtha: Atithi-tīrtha (within Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottamāḥ (assembled brāhmaṇas)
Scene: Atithi, as a radiant sage, points to a sacred water-spot within Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra while addressing assembled brāhmaṇas; faint vision of his past tapas appears behind him.
FAQs
A tīrtha gains sanctity through tapas; the speaker reveals a place consecrated by his own austerities.
Atithi’s own tīrtha located in the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra.
Not yet a prescription; it introduces the tīrtha whose observances and benefits are described in subsequent verses.