Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 140
एतद्वः कथितं सर्वं माहात्म्यं सूर्यसंभवम् । यः शृणोति नरो भक्त्या अश्वमेधफलं लभेत्
etadvaḥ kathitaṃ sarvaṃ māhātmyaṃ sūryasaṃbhavam | yaḥ śṛṇoti naro bhaktyā aśvamedhaphalaṃ labhet
ดังนี้เราได้กล่าวมหิมาอันบังเกิดจากพระสุริยะให้ท่านทั้งหลายครบถ้วนแล้ว ผู้ใดฟังด้วยภักติ ผู้นั้นย่อมได้ผลแห่งอัศวเมธยัญ
Narratorial voice within the Māhātmya (speaker not explicit in this verse)
Tirtha: Sūrya-sambhava māhātmya (Ratnāditya / Dvādaśārka context)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvijottamāḥ / general devotees
Scene: A narrator-sage concludes the Sūrya-māhātmya; listeners sit in a semicircle with folded hands; a manuscript/palm-leaf text is present; the atmosphere is devotional and complete, as if a yajña has been accomplished through words.
FAQs
Devotional listening (śravaṇa) to a tīrtha’s māhātmya is itself a high-yield dharma act, equated with major Vedic sacrifice merit.
The broader chapter context is Śrīhāṭakeśvara-kṣetra māhātmya within Nāgarakhaṇḍa, with emphasis on a Sūrya-connected greatness.
Śravaṇa—hearing the māhātmya with bhakti—is prescribed as the practice and is said to yield Aśvamedha-like fruit.