Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 3
यस्मिन् कालेऽथ सम्बन्धे उत्पन्नं तीर्थमुत्तमम् । सर्वपापहरं पुण्यं तीर्थं जातं कथं प्रभो
yasmin kāle'tha sambandhe utpannaṃ tīrthamuttamam | sarvapāpaharaṃ puṇyaṃ tīrthaṃ jātaṃ kathaṃ prabho
«في أيّ زمانٍ، وبأيّ سببٍ أو صلةٍ، نشأ هذا التيرثا الأسمى، هذا المَعبرُ المقدّسُ الذي يزيلُ كلَّ خطيئة؟ وكيف وُجدَ هذا الموضعُ الطاهر، أيها المبجَّل؟»
Yudhiṣṭhira (continuing inquiry)
Tirtha: Kapilā Tīrtha / Narmadeśvara-associated tīrtha (as queried)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Mārkaṇḍeya (addressed as prabho)
Scene: A questioning king points toward a river-map; the sage prepares to narrate, with a faint cosmic clock/seasonal wheel motif indicating ‘kāla’, and a chain-link motif indicating ‘sambandha’ (causal connection) behind the emerging tīrtha.
FAQs
Sacred places are understood through their origin narratives (utpatti-kathā), which reveal why a tīrtha carries purifying power in dharma.
The question concerns the supreme tīrtha being discussed in this chapter—Kapilā-tīrtha within the Revā Khaṇḍa setting.
None directly; the verse asks for the tīrtha’s origin and the reason for its sin-destroying merit.