Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 26
यैषा त्वयाऽत्मभूतोत्था निर्मिता परमा तनुः । एतां या कामिनी काचित्पूजयिष्यति भक्तितः । अनेनैव विधानेन तस्या भर्ता भविष्यति
yaiṣā tvayā'tmabhūtotthā nirmitā paramā tanuḥ | etāṃ yā kāminī kācitpūjayiṣyati bhaktitaḥ | anenaiva vidhānena tasyā bhartā bhaviṣyati
“یہ اعلیٰ ترین صورت، جو تمہارے اپنے وجود سے اُبھری اور تم ہی نے بنائی—جو بھی عورت اسی طریقے کے مطابق بھکتی سے اس کی پوجا کرے گی، اسے شوہر نصیب ہوگا۔”
Mahādeva (Śiva)
Type: kshetra
Scene: Mahādeva proclaims a boon: a supreme Devī-form, self-born from her essence, is to be worshipped; any woman who worships by the same rite gains a husband.
FAQs
Devotional worship performed according to prescribed method is portrayed as dharma-aligned and fruit-bearing.
The verse occurs within a tīrtha-māhātmya chapter, but the promise here is tied to worship of a particular divine form rather than explicitly naming the site.
Pūjā of the specified ‘supreme form’ with bhakti, performed ‘by this very vidhāna’ (the method described in the surrounding passage).