Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 93
एवं तन्नगरं जातमस्मात्कालादनंतरम् । देवदेवस्य भर्गस्य प्रसादेन द्विजोत्तमाः
evaṃ tannagaraṃ jātamasmātkālādanaṃtaram | devadevasya bhargasya prasādena dvijottamāḥ
ดูก่อนพราหมณ์ผู้ประเสริฐ นครแห่งนั้นได้ถือกำเนิดขึ้นในเวลาต่อมาไม่นาน ด้วยพระกรุณาของพระภรรคะ (พระศิวะ) ผู้เป็นเทพแห่งทวยเทพ
Narrator (contextually Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa continuing the māhātmya narration)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottama (addressed)
Scene: A new settlement rises: huts and a nascent shrine appear where danger once was; above, an unseen but felt presence of Bharga’s grace—light, auspicious signs, and calm skies—blesses the brāhmaṇas.
FAQs
Sacred geography is portrayed as arising through divine grace—prosperity and stability are gifts of the deity’s prasāda.
The Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra setting in the Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrtha-māhātmya.
None explicitly; it attributes the founding/flowering of the place to Śiva’s grace.