Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 7
इत्थं कथां कथयतोर्भगवद्गणयोः प्रिये । क्षणार्धेन विमानं तज्जनलोकं निनायतान्
itthaṃ kathāṃ kathayatorbhagavadgaṇayoḥ priye | kṣaṇārdhena vimānaṃ tajjanalokaṃ nināyatān
হে প্ৰিয়ে, সেই দুজন ভগৱানৰ গণে এইদৰে কথা কৈ থাকোঁতেই, অতি ক্ষণাৰ্ধতে সেই বিমান তেওঁলোকক জনলোকলৈ নিলে।
Agastya (narrating to an implied listener)
Listener: priye (beloved interlocutor in the frame narrative)
Scene: Two divine attendants converse mid-flight as a radiant vimāna shoots upward, leaving the earthly sphere; distant luminous realms appear like layered heavens.
FAQs
Divine guidance accelerates spiritual progress; in sacred narrative, the journey symbolizes swift elevation when supported by higher forces.
No earthly tīrtha is mentioned; the focus is on Janaloka as a purified cosmic realm.
None is directly prescribed.