Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 95
इन्द्रस्य स्थापनं मर्त्ये अहिल्याख्यानमेव च । गौतमेश्वरमाहात्म्यं तथाहिल्येश्वरस्य च
indrasya sthāpanaṃ martye ahilyākhyānameva ca | gautameśvaramāhātmyaṃ tathāhilyeśvarasya ca
इंद्राचे मर्त्यलोकी स्थापन, अहिल्येचे आख्यान, गौतमेश्वराचे माहात्म्य तसेच अहिल्येश्वराचेही माहात्म्य मी कथन केले आहे।
Purāṇic narrator summarizing sacred narratives
Tirtha: Gautameśvara and Ahilyeśvara (within Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣi audience (implied)
Scene: A paired-shrine tableau: two Śiva-liṅgas—Gautameśvara and Ahilyeśvara—set within the same sacred precinct; Indra appears in humbled, mortal-like posture, while Ahalyā stands in penitent stillness and Gautama in ascetic severity.
FAQs
Purāṇic tīrtha stories weave moral transformation (Ahalyā) with the sanctifying power of Śiva-kṣetras.
Gautameśvara and Ahilyeśvara within the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra tīrtha cycle.
None directly; it is a recap of māhātmya topics and sacred accounts.