Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 26
किं दानैः किं व्रतैर्ध्यानैः किं जपैः सोपवासकैः । पुत्रार्थं विद्यमानेऽथ सांबसूर्ये सुरेश्वरे
kiṃ dānaiḥ kiṃ vratairdhyānaiḥ kiṃ japaiḥ sopavāsakaiḥ | putrārthaṃ vidyamāne'tha sāṃbasūrye sureśvare
دانوں کی کیا حاجت، ورتوں، دھیانوں یا روزے کے ساتھ جپ کی کیا ضرورت، جب پتر کی خواہش کے لیے یہاں خود سامبسورْیہ، سُریشور، موجود ہے؟
Sūta (deduced from section context)
Tirtha: Sāmbasūrya / Vaṭāditya
Type: kshetra
Scene: A teacher-like narrator gestures toward the Sāmbasūrya shrine, while symbolic items—dāna pots, japa mālā, fasting bowl—fade into the background, indicating that the deity’s immediate presence is the central means for putrārtha.
FAQs
When a powerful deity is accessible in a sanctified place, direct devotion and darśana are exalted as supremely efficacious.
The Sāmbasūrya kṣetra/tīrtha described in this Tīrthamāhātmya section of the Nāgarakhaṇḍa.
The verse references dāna, vrata, dhyāna, and japa with fasting, but rhetorically subordinates them to access to Sāmbasūrya for putra-artham.