Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 70
स्वर्ग्यं यशस्यमायुष्यं धन्यं वेदेन संमितम् । रहस्यमृषिभिः प्रोक्तं शृणुयाद्योऽनसूयकः
svargyaṃ yaśasyamāyuṣyaṃ dhanyaṃ vedena saṃmitam | rahasyamṛṣibhiḥ proktaṃ śṛṇuyādyo'nasūyakaḥ
हा उपदेश स्वर्गप्रद, यशदायक, आयुष्यवर्धक व मंगलमय आहे—वेदसम्मत प्रमाणाने मोजलेला। ऋषींनी सांगितलेले हे रहस्य; जो ईर्ष्यारहित (अनसूय) आहे त्याने ते श्रवण करावे।
Skanda (deduced)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣis (frame) and the qualified anasūyaka audience (explicit)
Scene: Sages proclaim a ‘secret’ teaching; a pure-hearted listener sits attentive, while the words are depicted as luminous Vedic measures—like a radiant meter—rising toward the heavens over Prabhāsa’s shore.
FAQs
Hearing sacred tradition with humility and without envy becomes a direct source of dharmic prosperity and spiritual ascent.
The statement praises the Prabhāsa-kṣetra teaching being transmitted in this chapter.
Śravaṇa (devout listening) by a qualified, non-envious listener is prescribed as spiritually fruitful.