Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 32
किं वाचा बहुनोक्तेन भूयोभूयो द्विजोत्तमाः । या तासां क्रियते पूजा एकादशगुणा भवेत्
kiṃ vācā bahunoktena bhūyobhūyo dvijottamāḥ | yā tāsāṃ kriyate pūjā ekādaśaguṇā bhavet
“بار بار تفصیل سے کیوں کہوں، اے برہمنوں میں برتر! اُن روپوں کی جو پوجا کی جاتی ہے، اس کا پُنّیہ گیارہ گنا ہو جاتا ہے۔”
Śrī Bhagavān (Rudra/Śiva)
Tirtha: Viśvāmitra-hrada precinct (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Dvijottamas (brāhmaṇas)
Scene: The Lord concludes succinctly: worship offered to those forms becomes elevenfold—an emphatic phala-śruti moment, with brāhmaṇas receiving the teaching.
FAQs
Worship at a consecrated kṣetra multiplies spiritual merit; sacred geography intensifies devotion’s fruit.
The worship pertains to the eleven forms established in the Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra context.
Perform pūjā to the established forms; its fruit is stated as ‘elevenfold’.