Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 22
सूत उवाच । तिस्रः कोट्योऽर्धकोटिश्च तीर्थानां द्विजसत्तमाः । हाटकेश्वरजं क्षेत्रं व्याप्य सर्वं व्यवस्थिताः
sūta uvāca | tisraḥ koṭyo'rdhakoṭiśca tīrthānāṃ dvijasattamāḥ | hāṭakeśvarajaṃ kṣetraṃ vyāpya sarvaṃ vyavasthitāḥ
सूत उवाच—तिस्रः कोट्योऽर्धकोटिश्च तीर्थानां द्विजसत्तमाः। हाटकेश्वरजं क्षेत्रं व्याप्य सर्वं व्यवस्थिताः॥
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa/Sauti)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (as sarva-tīrtha-ādhāra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Ṛṣayaḥ (dvija-sattamāḥ)
Scene: Sūta proclaims an immense number of tīrthas filling the Hāṭakeśvara region; the landscape appears studded with countless waterbodies, shrines, and sacred markers radiating from a central Śiva presence.
FAQs
A kṣetra can be understood as a sacred ecosystem—many tīrthas collectively intensify the field of merit (puṇya).
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is highlighted as being filled with innumerable tīrthas.
No single rite is specified; the verse establishes the vast presence of tīrthas as the basis for later practices like snāna and dāna.
Read Skanda Purana in the Vedapath app
Scan the QR code to open this directly in the app, with audio, word-by-word meanings, and more.