Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 59
सूत्रेण वेष्टयेत्क्षेत्रमथवा शिवमन्दिरम् । अथवा शिवलिङ्गं च तस्य पुण्यफलं शृणु
sūtreṇa veṣṭayetkṣetramathavā śivamandiram | athavā śivaliṅgaṃ ca tasya puṇyaphalaṃ śṛṇu
اگر کوئی دھاگے سے اس کْشیتْر کو، یا شیو مندر کو، یا شیو لِنگ کو بھی گھیر لے، تو اس عمل سے پیدا ہونے والا پُنّیہ پھل سنو۔
Unknown (context suggests a Purāṇic narrator addressing a king)
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (addressed as rājendra)
Scene: A devotee gently wraps a white thread around a small Śiva-liṅga shrine or around the perimeter markers of a kṣetra; the narrator points, indicating ‘hear the fruit’.
FAQs
Physical acts that mark reverence for sacred space—done with devotion—generate significant puṇya in a tīrtha.
A Śaiva sacred precinct in the Revā-khaṇḍa, centered on a Śiva temple and liṅga.
Sūtra-veṣṭana: encircling the kṣetra/Śiva-temple/Śiva-liṅga with a thread as a devotional observance.