Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 92
मयापि तव प्रोक्तोऽयं मातृकाप्रश्र उत्तमः । द्वितीयं श्रृणु तं प्रश्नं पंचपंचाद्भुतं गृहम्
mayāpi tava prokto'yaṃ mātṛkāpraśra uttamaḥ | dvitīyaṃ śrṛṇu taṃ praśnaṃ paṃcapaṃcādbhutaṃ gṛham
এই উৎকৃষ্ট ‘মাতৃকা’ বিষয়ক প্রশ্ন আমি তোমাকে ব্যাখ্যা করেছি। এখন দ্বিতীয় প্রশ্ন শোনো—পাঁচ ও পাঁচ দ্বারা গঠিত সেই আশ্চর্য ‘গৃহ’ সম্বন্ধে।
Sutanu
Listener: Sutanu
Scene: A symbolic diagrammatic scene: a ‘house’ whose pillars and rooms are labeled with two sets of five (elements/senses etc.), with the teacher pointing to it while the listener watches; mātṛkā letters appear as a garland around the structure.
FAQs
Spiritual inquiry progresses stepwise—after one doctrine is clarified, deeper questions about the embodied ‘structure’ are taken up.
No tīrtha is specified; the verse sets up a philosophical exposition.
None; it introduces the next doctrinal question.