Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 28
तेन पूर्वमपि प्रायस्तत्क्षेत्रमवलोकितम् । दुर्योधनसमायुक्तो यदा तत्र समागतः
tena pūrvamapi prāyastatkṣetramavalokitam | duryodhanasamāyukto yadā tatra samāgataḥ
আগতেও তেওঁ প্ৰায় সেই ক্ষেত্ৰ দৰ্শন কৰি থৈছিল; আৰু যেতিয়া দুঃযোধনৰ সৈতে তাত উপস্থিত হ’ল, তেতিয়া তেওঁ পুনৰ সেই পৱিত্ৰ ভূমিত প্ৰৱেশ কৰিলে।
Purāṇic narrator (contextual; likely Sūta/Lomaharṣaṇa continuing the Tīrthamāhātmya narration)
Tirtha: Arjuneśvara-kṣetra (contextual)
Type: kshetra
Listener: Audience/inquirer (unspecified)
Scene: A flashback-like depiction: Arjuna recalling an earlier visit to the same sacred field, with Duryodhana present; the landscape remains constant, emphasizing the timelessness of the kṣetra.
FAQs
Repeated darśana (beholding) of a kṣetra is itself meritorious; holy places draw even great warriors back again and again.
A named kṣetra within Nāgarakhaṇḍa’s Tīrthamāhātmya context (the passage proceeds toward Arjuneśvara and a Vaiṣṇava prāsāda), indicating a locally celebrated tīrtha-kṣetra.
No explicit rite here; the emphasis is on arrival and kṣetra-darśana as a sacred act.