Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
एवमुक्त्वा त्रिनेत्रस्तु तत्रैवादर्शनं गतः । तेऽपि तत्राश्रमं कृत्वा श्रद्धया परया युताः । मूर्तीश्च ताः समाराध्य संप्राप्ताः परमं पदम्
evamuktvā trinetrastu tatraivādarśanaṃ gataḥ | te'pi tatrāśramaṃ kṛtvā śraddhayā parayā yutāḥ | mūrtīśca tāḥ samārādhya saṃprāptāḥ paramaṃ padam
یوں کہہ کر تین آنکھوں والے پروردگار وہیں غائب ہو گئے۔ اور اُن تپسویوں نے اسی جگہ آشرم قائم کیا، اعلیٰ ترین شردھا کے ساتھ اُن روپوں کی پوجا کی اور پرم پد، یعنی اعلیٰ ترین مقام، کو پا لیا۔
Narrator (Purāṇic narration; Śiva is referenced as Tri-netra)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottamāḥ (best of twice-born)
Scene: Śiva (Trinetra) speaks to ascetics and then becomes invisible at the very spot; the ascetics build a simple forest āśrama and worship multiple Śaiva forms (mūrtis), culminating in ascent to the highest abode.
FAQs
Steady life of faith and worship at a sanctified kṣetra culminates in the supreme spiritual attainment.
The same locale of Hāṭakeśvara-kṣetra (with the associated tīrtha setting) where the ascetics establish an āśrama.
Founding an āśrama and performing sustained worship (samārādhana) of the established forms.