Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 1
सूत उवाच । कपालेशस्य माहात्म्यं श्रूयतामधुना द्विजाः । चतुर्थस्य महाभागास्तत्र क्षेत्रे स्थितस्य च
sūta uvāca | kapāleśasya māhātmyaṃ śrūyatāmadhunā dvijāḥ | caturthasya mahābhāgāstatra kṣetre sthitasya ca
सूत म्हणाले—हे द्विजहो! आता कपालेशाचे माहात्म्य ऐका; त्या पवित्र क्षेत्रात प्रतिष्ठित चतुर्थ महाभाग देवाचे।
Sūta
Tirtha: Kapāleśa
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvijāḥ / sages (Naimiṣāraṇya assembly)
Scene: Sūta addresses assembled sages, announcing the Kapāleśa māhātmya; in the mind’s eye, a Śiva-liṅga associated with ‘kapāla’ symbolism stands as the next station in the kṣetra.
FAQs
Listening (śravaṇa) to a tīrtha’s māhātmya is itself a dharmic act that opens access to the site’s sanctifying power.
Kapāleśvara situated within the same sacred kṣetra (Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra context) in Nāgara-khaṇḍa.
Śravaṇa—hearing the māhātmya—is explicitly enjoined as the opening act.