Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 26
युधिष्ठिर उवाच । सोमनाथप्रभावं मे संक्षेपात्कथय प्रभो । दुःखार्णवनिमग्नानां त्राता प्राप्तो द्विजोत्तम
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | somanāthaprabhāvaṃ me saṃkṣepātkathaya prabho | duḥkhārṇavanimagnānāṃ trātā prāpto dvijottama
Yudhiṣṭhira berkata: “Wahai Prabhu, ceritakan kepadaku secara ringkas kebesaran Somanātha. Wahai dvija yang utama, engkau datang sebagai penyelamat bagi mereka yang tenggelam dalam lautan dukacita.”
Yudhiṣṭhira
Tirtha: Somanātha (requested prabhāva)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya (addressed as dvijottama)
Scene: Yudhiṣṭhira, solemn and earnest, addresses a venerable brāhmaṇa-sage, requesting the condensed greatness of Somanātha for the afflicted.
FAQs
Approaching a knower of dharma and hearing a tīrtha’s greatness is itself a path of relief from sorrow and spiritual uplift.
Somanātha—invoked here as a sacred locus of Śiva’s greatness within the Revā Khaṇḍa narrative frame.
No specific rite is prescribed in this verse; it sets up the act of listening (śravaṇa) to the mahātmya.