Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 52
ततस्ते चेष्टितं सर्वं कौतुकाच्च शृणोति यः । परदारकृतात्पापात्ततो मुक्तिं प्रयास्यति
tataste ceṣṭitaṃ sarvaṃ kautukācca śṛṇoti yaḥ | paradārakṛtātpāpāttato muktiṃ prayāsyati
मग जो भक्तियुक्त कुतूहलाने तुझ्या सर्व चेष्टितांचे वर्णन ऐकतो, तो परस्त्रीसंबंधातून झालेल्या पापापासून मुक्त होऊन पुढे मोक्षाकडे जाईल।
Unspecified (contextual narrator/authority voice within Nāgarakhaṇḍa Tīrthamāhātmya)
Tirtha: Rudraśiraḥ (implied)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A gathered audience listens as the full ‘ceṣṭita’ (account of deeds) is narrated; the listener’s burden of sin is symbolically lifted—darkness dissolving into light, suggesting liberation.
FAQs
Śravaṇa (devout hearing) of a sacred māhātmya is presented as a powerful means of purification even from grave moral lapses.
A tīrtha-context is implied by Tīrthamāhātmya, but the verse does not specify the site by name.
Hearing the full account (kathā-śravaṇa) is itself the stated practice leading to release from sin.