Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 79
यदन्यत्र भवेच्छ्रेयो वत्सरेण तपस्विनाम् । दिनेनैवात्र तत्सम्यग्जायते नात्र संशयः
yadanyatra bhavecchreyo vatsareṇa tapasvinām | dinenaivātra tatsamyagjāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ
جو روحانی برتری تپسوی کہیں اور ایک سال میں پاتے ہیں، وہ یہاں ایک ہی دن میں پوری طرح حاصل ہو جاتی ہے؛ اس میں کوئی شک نہیں۔
Nandinī
Tirtha: Camatkārapura
Type: kshetra
Listener: The king
Scene: A symbolic tableau: a sun’s single arc over Camatkārapura while ascetics’ year-long austerities elsewhere fade in the background; within the kṣetra, a pilgrim completes snāna and darśana in one day, radiance indicating ‘samyak-jāyate’.
FAQs
Holy places can ‘compress’ spiritual effort—tīrtha-grace multiplies the fruit of practice when approached with sincerity.
Camatkārapura-kṣetra is praised as granting in one day the śreyas otherwise achieved in a year elsewhere.
No particular rite is specified; the emphasis is on the extraordinary fruit (phala) of staying/visiting even briefly.