Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 34
चतुष्का यज्ञवेदिर्हि सोच्छ्राया ह्यभवत्पुरा । तेऽत्र वल्मीकनिचयैर्दृश्यंते परिवेष्टिताः
catuṣkā yajñavedirhi socchrāyā hyabhavatpurā | te'tra valmīkanicayairdṛśyaṃte pariveṣṭitāḥ
قديماً كانت مذابحُ القربان ذاتُ الزوايا الأربع قائمةً هنا، مرتفعةً بارزة؛ أمّا الآن فتُرى محاطةً بأكوامٍ من تلال النمل.
Unspecified narrator within Dharmāraṇya Khaṇḍa (contextual description to Rāma)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Listener: Rāma
Scene: Ruined yajña-ground: faint square outlines of four-cornered altars, once raised, now ringed and swallowed by reddish-brown anthills; grasses and creepers weave over the geometry, evoking time’s dominance.
FAQs
Ritual spaces must be maintained; otherwise, even venerable yajña-vedīs become silent ruins—yet their sanctity remains traceable.
Dharmāraṇya, marked by former yajña-vedīs as signs of its Vedic past.
Yajña is referenced through the vedi (altar), but no specific procedure is prescribed in this verse.