Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 4
भर्तृयज्ञ उवाच । सिद्धेश्वर इति ख्यातो महादेवो महीपते । तस्योत्पत्तिस्त्वया पूर्वं श्रुतात्र वदतो मम
bhartṛyajña uvāca | siddheśvara iti khyāto mahādevo mahīpate | tasyotpattistvayā pūrvaṃ śrutātra vadato mama
بھرتریَجْن نے کہا: اے زمین کے مالک! یہاں مہادیو ‘سدھیشور’ کے نام سے مشہور ہیں۔ اس کی پیدائش کی بات تم پہلے سن چکے ہو؛ پھر بھی میری بات سنو، میں اسے بیان کرتا ہوں۔
Bhartṛyajña
Tirtha: Siddheśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mahi-pati / King (contextually Ānarta in subsequent verse)
Scene: A sage (Bhartṛyajña) addresses a king, pointing toward a Śiva shrine named Siddheśvara, beginning the origin narrative; the atmosphere is didactic and sacred.
FAQs
Śiva’s presence becomes localized and name-sanctified as a tīrtha (Siddheśvara), and hearing its origin-story is part of Purāṇic devotional culture.
Siddheśvara—Mahādeva known by this name in the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra Māhātmya milieu.
None explicitly; the implied practice is śravaṇa (devotional listening) to the tīrtha’s origin narrative.