Skanda Purana — Avanti Khanda, Shloka 7
श्रीमार्कण्डेय उवाच । इत्युक्त्वा भगवान्देवस्तदा नारायणो नृप । उच्चैर्जहास स्वनवत्तत्राभूदखिलं जगत्
śrīmārkaṇḍeya uvāca | ityuktvā bhagavāndevastadā nārāyaṇo nṛpa | uccairjahāsa svanavattatrābhūdakhilaṃ jagat
শ্ৰী মাৰ্কণ্ডেয় ক’লে: এইদৰে কৈ, হে নৃপ, ভগৱান নাৰায়ণ তেতিয়া উচ্চস্বৰে হাসিলে; আৰু সেই নাদৰ অনুৰণনত তাত সমগ্ৰ জগত প্ৰকাশিত হ’ল।
Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya
Tirtha: Revā-kṣetra (narrative locus)
Type: kshetra
Listener: King (nṛpa)
Scene: Nārāyaṇa laughs aloud; from the vibrating sound-waves the cosmos appears—stars, worlds, gods—like ripples expanding from a single sonic burst; observers are stunned.
FAQs
The cosmos is portrayed as responding to the Divine—creation and revelation proceed from the Lord’s effortless will and power.
No explicit tirtha is named in this verse; it functions as narrative transition within Revā Khaṇḍa.
None.