Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 33
यदत्र क्रियते किंचित्कर्म धर्म्यं द्विजोत्तमाः । तद्बाह्यं च भवेद्व्यर्थमेतद्विद्मः स्फुटं वयम्
yadatra kriyate kiṃcitkarma dharmyaṃ dvijottamāḥ | tadbāhyaṃ ca bhavedvyarthametadvidmaḥ sphuṭaṃ vayam
اے دِویجوں کے سردارو! یہاں جو بھی کوئی دھارمک کرم کیا جاتا ہے—اگر اس مقدس حد سے باہر کیا جائے—تو وہ بے ثمر ہو جاتا ہے؛ یہ ہم صاف طور پر جانتے ہیں۔
Local devotees/hosts (asserting the tīrtha’s unique efficacy)
Tirtha: Nāga-tīrtha / kṣetra (contextual ‘atra’)
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvijottamāḥ
Scene: A declarative teaching scene: sages or narrator emphasize the boundary of the sacred precinct—inside, dharmic rites bear fruit; outside, they are futile; visualized as a tīrtha with marked limits (torana, boundary stones, ghāṭ line).
FAQs
Place matters in Purāṇic dharma: a consecrated kṣetra intensifies the fruit of righteous acts, while the same acts elsewhere may not yield the same result.
A Nāgarakhaṇḍa tīrtha whose precinct is declared uniquely efficacious for dharmic rites.
To perform dharmic rites within the tīrtha/kṣetra itself (not outside), emphasizing the importance of sacred locality.