Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 113
अभीष्टं च वरं मत्तो वृणीष्व मनसेप्सितम् । त्वयातितोषितो ह्यस्मिनादेयं विद्यते तव
abhīṣṭaṃ ca varaṃ matto vṛṇīṣva manasepsitam | tvayātitoṣito hyasminādeyaṃ vidyate tava
مجھ سے اپنی خواہش کے مطابق جو بھی ور مانگنا ہو، اپنے دل کی مراد چن لو۔ تم نے مجھے بہت خوش کیا ہے؛ یہاں تمہارے لیے کوئی چیز روکی نہیں جائے گی۔
Śiva (Śaṅkara/Maheśvara)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience; immediate interlocutor is Kālabhīti
Scene: Śiva, compassionate and majestic, addresses the devotee, offering any desired boon; the sanctum glows, indicating acceptance of worship.
FAQs
Sincere devotion and right conduct attract divine grace, making spiritual and worldly aims attainable through God’s favor.
The verse is part of a liṅga/tīrtha-centered narrative flow, but this line itself focuses on Śiva’s boon-giving rather than a named site.
No explicit ritual is prescribed; it introduces the granting of a boon as the fruit of devotion.