Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 27
शृणुयाद्वापि यो भक्त्या कीर्त्यमानमिदं नरः । सौत्रामणौ कृते कृत्स्नं फलमाप्नोत्यसंशयम्
śṛṇuyādvāpi yo bhaktyā kīrtyamānamidaṃ naraḥ | sautrāmaṇau kṛte kṛtsnaṃ phalamāpnotyasaṃśayam
اور جو شخص بھکتی کے ساتھ اس کا کیرتن/پاتھ صرف سن لے، وہ بھی بے شک ایسے ہی پورا پھل پاتا ہے گویا سَوترامَنی کرم ادا کیا گیا ہو۔
Narrator (contextual Purāṇic speaker not explicit in this verse)
Tirtha: Unspecified Nāgara-khaṇḍa tīrtha (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Scene: A listener sits with folded hands among devotees as a reciter chants; the merit of a complex Vedic rite is symbolically represented by a faint yajña-scene in the background, indicating equivalence through hearing.
FAQs
Devotional listening (śravaṇa) is upheld as spiritually efficacious, capable of granting the merit of elaborate Vedic rites.
The listening/recitation concerns the Rāmahrada māhātmya narrated in this section.
Listen with devotion to the recitation of this māhātmya to gain merit comparable to performing the Sautrāmaṇī rite.