Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 3
यदा तन्निर्मितं तत्र पुरं तेन महात्मना । तस्य संरक्षणार्थाय तदा सा स्थापिता द्विजाः
yadā tannirmitaṃ tatra puraṃ tena mahātmanā | tasya saṃrakṣaṇārthāya tadā sā sthāpitā dvijāḥ
जेव्हा त्या महात्म्याने तेथे ते नगर निर्माण केले, तेव्हा—हे द्विजांनो—त्या नगराच्या संरक्षणासाठी देवीची स्थापना करण्यात आली।
Sūta
Tirtha: Camatkārī-kṣetra (city-guardian shrine)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijās (twice-born sages)
Scene: A newly built city with gates and ramparts; at its threshold a Devī shrine is consecrated, symbolically ‘locking’ protection over the settlement.
FAQs
A community’s welfare is safeguarded when governance and devotion establish divine guardianship aligned with dharma.
The city associated with Camatkārī Devī’s स्थापना is praised as a protected sacred settlement within the Nāgara Khaṇḍa narrative.
Establishing the deity (pratiṣṭhā/स्थापना) for kṣetra-rakṣā (protection of the place) is implied.