Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 44
परितुष्टोऽस्मि देवेश भक्त्या चानन्ययाऽनया । तस्मात्प्रार्थय दास्यामि यं कामं हृदिसंस्थितम्
parituṣṭo'smi deveśa bhaktyā cānanyayā'nayā | tasmātprārthaya dāsyāmi yaṃ kāmaṃ hṛdisaṃsthitam
“اے دیوؤں کے ایشور! تیری اس بےمثال، یکسو بھکتی سے میں پوری طرح خوش ہوں۔ اس لیے مانگ لے—جو خواہش تیرے دل میں بسی ہے، میں وہ عطا کروں گا۔”
Śiva (Tripurāntaka)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Gopati/Śakra (Indra)
Scene: Tripurāntaka speaks compassionately, offering a boon; his hand raised in varada-mudrā, face softened by satisfaction; devotee attentive, humbled.
FAQs
Undivided devotion (ananyā-bhakti) is portrayed as the direct cause of divine satisfaction and boon-granting grace.
The boon is granted within the Nāgarakhaṇḍa 122 tīrtha setting where Tripurāntaka appears; the place’s sanctity is affirmed by the immediacy of Śiva’s grace.
A devotional prescription in principle: cultivate exclusive devotion; the practical rites are described in the surrounding verses (pūjā, offerings).