Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 67
हाटकेश्वरजे क्षेत्रे स्थापय त्वं च मा क्षिप । अक्षयं जायते येन सर्वस्त्रीणां हिताय च
hāṭakeśvaraje kṣetre sthāpaya tvaṃ ca mā kṣipa | akṣayaṃ jāyate yena sarvastrīṇāṃ hitāya ca
“ہاتکیشور کے مقدس کھیتر میں انہیں قائم کرنا، انہیں پھینک نہ دینا۔ اس سے اَکھنڈ پُنّیہ پیدا ہوتا ہے جو تمام عورتوں کی بھلائی اور کلیان کا سبب بنتا ہے۔”
Sureśvarī (Goddess/Gaurī)
Tirtha: Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Viṣṇu (outer frame, implied) / Lakṣmī (recipient of command)
Scene: The Goddess commands: install the four forms in Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra; do not discard them. This yields imperishable merit for the welfare of all women.
FAQs
Establishing sacred forms at a holy site generates akṣaya-puṇya and extends spiritual benefit beyond the individual to the wider community.
Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra is explicitly praised as the proper place for establishing the Gaurīcatuṣṭaya.
Pratiṣṭhā (installation) of the four images in Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra; prohibition against discarding/immersing them.