Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 2
पुण्या देवाशिला नाम तस्या माहात्म्यमुत्तमम् । एतदाख्याहि मे सर्वं प्रसन्नो यदि शङ्कर
puṇyā devāśilā nāma tasyā māhātmyamuttamam | etadākhyāhi me sarvaṃ prasanno yadi śaṅkara
پُنیا نام کی دیواشیلا ہے—اُس کی عظمت سب سے اعلیٰ ہے۔ اے شنکر، اگر آپ راضی ہوں تو یہ سب کچھ مجھے بیان فرمائیں۔
Uttānapāda
Tirtha: Devāśilā (Puṇyā)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Śaṅkara is addressed; the petitioner (likely a king/ṛṣi) requests narration
Scene: A devotee/king petitions Śaṅkara to narrate the supreme greatness of the sacred place Devāśilā called Puṇyā; the moment is intimate, reverent, and anticipatory.
FAQs
Māhātmya is received through humble inquiry; sacred places are approached by devotion and a desire to hear divine history.
Devāśilā (also called Puṇyā) is explicitly named as the praised sacred locus within the Revā Khaṇḍa.
No direct rite here; the verse requests the full account that typically supports later prescriptions like snāna and tīrtha-sevā.