Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 11
ततश्च तत्पदान्वेषी स जगाम वनाद्वनम् । चमत्कारपुरस्यास्य समंताद्द्विजसत्त माः
tataśca tatpadānveṣī sa jagāma vanādvanam | camatkārapurasyāsya samaṃtāddvijasatta māḥ
তারপর সেই পদচিহ্ন অনুসন্ধান করতে করতে সে বন থেকে বনে গেল, এবং এই চমৎকারপুরের চারদিকে ঘুরে বেড়াল, হে দ্বিজশ্রেষ্ঠ।
Sūta (Lomaharṣaṇa) (deduced; addressing dvija-sattamāḥ)
Tirtha: Cāmatkārapura
Type: kshetra
Listener: dvija-sattamaḥ (explicitly addressed)
Scene: The cowherd follows the footprints from one forest patch to another, with the distant silhouette of Cāmatkārapura’s settlement/temple spires hinted beyond trees; the narrator addresses a learned brāhmaṇa.
FAQs
The seeker’s movement through the landscape mirrors inner seeking; the Purāṇa frames geography as a field where dharma and grace unfold.
Cāmatkārapura is named as the central locale around which the search unfolds, within the Nāgara Khaṇḍa tīrtha discourse.
None in this verse; it provides the place-name and spatial context.
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