Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 46
एतद्वः सर्वमाख्यातं तस्य लिंगस्य सम्भवम् । माहात्म्यं ब्राह्मणश्रेष्ठाः सर्वपातकनाशनम्
etadvaḥ sarvamākhyātaṃ tasya liṃgasya sambhavam | māhātmyaṃ brāhmaṇaśreṣṭhāḥ sarvapātakanāśanam
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Sūta
Type: kshetra
Listener: Brāhmaṇa sages (brāhmaṇeśreṣṭhāḥ)
Scene: A learned narrator addresses assembled brāhmaṇa sages, concluding the account of a self-manifest or divinely established liṅga; the liṅga is implied as a sin-destroying axis of the kṣetra.
FAQs
Remembering and honoring a tīrtha’s māhātmya supports purification and reinforces dharmic living.
The Amara-liṅga kṣetra/tīrtha of Nāgarakhaṇḍa, praised as sarva-pātaka-nāśana (sin-destroying).
No direct prescription; the verse concludes the narrated māhātmya and emphasizes its purificatory fruit.