Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 25
यानि कान्यत्र लिंगानि स्थावराणि चराणि च । तेषु संक्रमते देवस्तस्यां रात्रौ यतो हरः
yāni kānyatra liṃgāni sthāvarāṇi carāṇi ca | teṣu saṃkramate devastasyāṃ rātrau yato haraḥ
येथे जी जी लिंगे आहेत—स्थावर असोत वा चल—त्या रात्रौ देव त्यांत संक्रांत होतो; कारण त्या रात्री हर (शिव) अवतरतो.
Narrator (Purāṇic voice); specific speaker not explicit in this verse
Type: kshetra
Scene: A panorama of many liṅgas—some installed in temples, some carried by devotees—each suffused with a subtle radiance as Śiva’s presence descends on the sacred night.
FAQs
Śivarātri is portrayed as a night of heightened divine presence, when worship at any liṅga becomes especially potent.
The verse universalizes the sanctity across liṅgas; the immediate tīrtha setting is the Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s sacred-geography frame, not a single named shrine in this line.
Worship of Śiva at liṅgas on “that night” (Śivarātri), leveraging the special divine ‘descent’ described.
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