यच्छ्रुत्वा मानवो देवि मुच्यते सर्वपातकैः । ये केचित्सागरांतायां पृथिव्यां कीर्तिता द्विजाः
yacchrutvā mānavo devi mucyate sarvapātakaiḥ | ye kecitsāgarāṃtāyāṃ pṛthivyāṃ kīrtitā dvijāḥ
Kapag narinig ito, O Devī, ang tao ay napapalaya sa lahat ng kasalanan. Anumang mga Brāhmaṇa na bantog sa buong daigdig na napapaligiran ng karagatan—ang kanilang kaluwalhatian ay nasasaklaw dito.
Śiva (Īśvara)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahādevī (Pārvatī)
Scene: Śiva declares that merely hearing this account frees one from all sins; the fame of brāhmaṇas across the ocean-bounded world is invoked, suggesting a cosmic scope.
Śravaṇa (devout hearing) of dharma and māhātmya is itself purifying and destroys pāpa.
Prabhāsa Kṣetra, through a teaching whose hearing grants liberation from sins.
Śravaṇa—listening to the sacred exposition with faith—is presented as a purifying practice.
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