Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 25
एते शक्रादयो देवास्तेषु तीर्थेषु सुन्दरि । मां पूज्य त्रिदिवं प्राप्तास्तथान्ये नारदादयः
ete śakrādayo devāsteṣu tīrtheṣu sundari | māṃ pūjya tridivaṃ prāptāstathānye nāradādayaḥ
ఓ సుందరీ, ఇంద్రుడు మొదలైన ఈ దేవతలు ఆ తీర్థాలలో నన్ను పూజించి త్రిదివం (స్వర్గం) పొందారు; అలాగే నారదాది ఇతరులూ పొందారు।
Śiva (deduced)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī (addressed as ‘sundarī’)
Scene: A celestial assembly at a riverside/ghāṭa: Indra with vajra, other devas, and Nārada with vīṇā offering flowers and lamps to the presiding deity; a luminous path rising to svarga in the background.
FAQs
Even the devas honor tīrthas and worship the Supreme there; sacred places are presented as proven pathways to exalted states.
The verse refers collectively to the tīrthas about to be enumerated; it validates them through divine exemplars (Indra, Nārada).
Pūjā (worship) of the speaker-deity at the tīrthas as a means to attain heavenly merit (tridiva).