Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 4
ईश्वर उवाच । शृणु देवि प्रवक्ष्यामि कथां पापप्रणाशिनीम् । यां श्रुत्वा मानवो देवि मुक्तः संसारसागरात् । सर्वान्कामान्स लभते सततं मनसि प्रियान्
īśvara uvāca | śṛṇu devi pravakṣyāmi kathāṃ pāpapraṇāśinīm | yāṃ śrutvā mānavo devi muktaḥ saṃsārasāgarāt | sarvānkāmānsa labhate satataṃ manasi priyān
Īśvara phán: “Hãy lắng nghe, hỡi Nữ Thần, Ta sẽ kể một câu chuyện diệt trừ tội lỗi. Ai nghe được, hỡi Nữ Thần, sẽ thoát khỏi biển cả luân hồi, và luôn đạt được mọi điều tâm trí hằng ưa nguyện.”
Īśvara (Śiva)
Tirtha: Prabhāsa-kṣetra
Type: kshetra
Listener: Devī
Scene: Śiva turns to Devī and promises a sin-destroying narrative whose very hearing liberates from saṃsāra and grants cherished desires.
FAQs
Śravaṇa (devotional listening) to a purāṇic māhātmya is presented as transformative—destroying sin and orienting one toward liberation.
Implicitly the Rāmeśvara/Prabhāsa sacred complex, since the kathā being introduced concerns its prabhāva.
Śravaṇa—listening to the māhātmya (kathā-śravaṇa) as a meritorious practice.