Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 28
त्वं हौत्रमग्निहोत्राणां सूत्रमन्त्रस्त्वमेव च । गोकर्णं भद्रकर्णं च त्वं च माहेश्वरं पदम्
tvaṃ hautramagnihotrāṇāṃ sūtramantrastvameva ca | gokarṇaṃ bhadrakarṇaṃ ca tvaṃ ca māheśvaraṃ padam
تو ہی اگنی ہوترا کے ہوتر ارپن کا روپ ہے؛ تو ہی سُوتر ہے اور تو ہی منتر۔ تو ہی گوکرن اور بھدرکرن ہے، اور تو ہی ماہیشور پد—شیو کا اعلیٰ مقام ہے۔
A devotee/praiser in the Revā-khaṇḍa narrative (speaker not explicitly named in the excerpt)
Tirtha: Gokarṇa; Bhadrakarṇa (as invoked)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A devotee-sage offers agnihotra into a blazing altar; above the fire appears a cosmic form of the Lord, whose body contains sacred sites—Gokarṇa and Bhadrakarṇa—while a radiant ‘Māheśvara-pada’ (Śiva’s supreme station) shines like a crown.
FAQs
Ritual (yajña), its formulas (mantra), and its rules (sūtra) attain fulfillment when understood as expressions of the one Supreme Lord.
Gokarṇa and Bhadrakarṇa are explicitly invoked as sacred identities/places embodied by the Lord.
Agnihotra is referenced as a central Vedic rite; the verse frames its essence as devotion to the Lord rather than giving procedural instructions.