Skanda Purana — Brahma Khanda, Shloka 21
अथर्वांगिरसश्चैव वालखिल्या मरीचिपाः । मनोंऽतरिक्षं विद्याश्व वायुस्तेजो जलं मही
atharvāṃgirasaścaiva vālakhilyā marīcipāḥ | manoṃ'tarikṣaṃ vidyāśva vāyustejo jalaṃ mahī
সেখানে অথর্ব ও অঙ্গিরসগণ, এবং বালখিল্য ও মরীচিপরাও ছিলেন। মন, অন্তরীক্ষ, বিদ্যা, অশ্ব, বায়ু, তেজ, জল ও পৃথিবী—এগুলিও দেবশক্তিরূপে উপস্থিত ছিল।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) narrating to the sages (deduced from Purāṇic frame; exact speaker not in snippet)
Tirtha: Dharmāraṇya
Type: kshetra
Scene: A cosmic assembly where sages sit alongside personified principles: Mind as a luminous figure, Wind as flowing blue-green, Fire as radiant red-gold, Water as translucent blue, Earth as green-brown stability; the hall becomes a mandala of elements.
FAQs
The sacred assembly unites sages and cosmic principles, teaching that dharma embraces both realized seers and the very building-blocks of creation.
Dharmāraṇya is implied as the sanctified setting; no named bathing-place is specified in this verse.
None; the verse presents a cosmological roll-call of sages and personified forces.