Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 84
अप्सरस ऊचुः । लोभावृतो ह्ययं विप्रो लोभात्पापस्य संग्रहः । हनूमन्तेश्वरे राजन्ये मृताः सत्त्वमास्थिताः
apsarasa ūcuḥ | lobhāvṛto hyayaṃ vipro lobhātpāpasya saṃgrahaḥ | hanūmanteśvare rājanye mṛtāḥ sattvamāsthitāḥ
Các Apsara thưa rằng: “Vị Bà-la-môn này quả thật bị lòng tham che phủ; từ tham dục mà tội lỗi tích tụ. Nhưng những người thuộc dòng dõi vương gia chết tại Hanūmanteśvara đã đạt được sự kiên trú nơi sattva (đức hạnh vững bền).”
Apsarases
Tirtha: Hanūmanteśvara
Type: kshetra
Listener: Implied royal interlocutor within the episode (context continues with Śatabāhu)
Scene: Apsarases speak as luminous witnesses, pointing to a brāhmaṇa clouded by greed; in the background stands a Śiva-linga shrine named Hanūmanteśvara, with royal warriors’ souls rising upward in sattva.
FAQs
Greed obscures dharma and gathers sin, while dying in a sanctified field of merit like Hanūmanteśvara is portrayed as leading to sattva and upliftment.
Hanūmanteśvara, explicitly named as the place where an auspicious spiritual state is attained.
No explicit ritual; it gives an ethical diagnosis (lobha) and a tīrtha-based spiritual outcome (attaining sattva).